Welcome to the Bryn Athyn Community Calendar
This community calendar is run by the Bryn Athyn Church to help people know what all is going on in Bryn Athyn on a particular day.
Click the links or scroll down to the bottom of the page if you have questions about how to use the calendar, have questions about specific events, or want to add something to this calendar.
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Tools for Life Summer Camp
Tools for Life | June 20-25, 2025
Registration for 2025 Tools for Life is open!
For: If you’re finishing 10th or 11th grade—this camp is for you!
Date: Friday, June 20 to Wednesday, June 25 (6 days and 5 nights)
Fee: $750 USD ($200 non-refundable deposit due with registration)
$50 USD discount for payment in full by May 16th
Location: 2945 College Drive, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, United States
Contact: Tools4Life@brynathyn.edu
Staff:
- Rev. Chuck Blair (AA ’85, TS ’06), Director
- Susan Asplundh (BACONC ’87), Producer
- Libby Allen (BA ’22), Head Counselor
- Luke David (AA ’17), Head Counselor
- Sean Connelly (BA ’94), President of Bryn Athyn College of the New Church
About: Founded in 1877, Bryn Athyn College of the New Church is a small, private, coeducational, liberal arts college dedicated to a New Church approach to education and life.
Don’t leave your path to chance—choose it!
Tools for Life creates a space and place for you to breathe, connect, and think big about your path beyond high school. Rooted in the Bible and its inner meaning through the Heavenly Doctrine, Tools for Life is not your ordinary pre-college summer camp; it’s deeper. This immersive experience at Bryn Athyn College of the New Church gives you the launchpad to navigate what lies ahead. You’ll leave with:
- A clearer sense of who you are—and the freedom that comes from walking with the Lord
- Life skills for success with college, careers, and relationships
- Connections to mentors, professionals, and peers—for life
Explore and discover.
What matters most is knowing you have choices—and we’re here to help you build the life skills to make them.
Bring a friend. Or a few. And build your tools for life—together.
Past destinations and activities have included:
- College Tours (such as UPenn, Rutgers, Haverford, Temple)
- Career Visits (from The New York Times to world-renowned hospitals)
- Workshops (on building relationships, networking, and decision-making)
- Community Service (land stewardship at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust)
- Day-in-the-Life (preview of college “dorm life” and making the most of it)
- Fun & Friendship (“Dinner Date Night,” off-campus adventures, recreational outings)
Parents, this is more than a summer camp.
We offer an opportunity for more clarity, confidence, and character-building and the kind of experience that pays dividends for years to come. Your teenager can return with direction, purpose, and lifelong friends.
Rising juniors and seniors, ready to sign up?
- June 20-25, 2025
- $700 – save with early bird registration! ($750 after May 1)
- Price includes all meals over the 6 days and 5 nights of camp
- Join us and live on our scenic campus, in our Cooper and Goodenough Halls
Using the Calendar
It Will Display Differently on Your Phone
Some of the features of this calendar only work when viewing on a bigger screen. If you’re on a phone, look for these icons to search and change your view.
When you tap on the magnifying glass, a search box will appear below the color-coded categories. Use the icon on the right to change between month and list views. List view is recommended for mobile use.
The Reset Calendar Button Is Your Friend
If the calendar is behaving strangely, start over again by clicking Reset Calendar. It’s at the end of the color-coded categories.
Click on an Event for More Information
Many events have more details than will display at first. On a computer you can hold your mouse over an event title to see a summary of the description. On a computer or a phone, if you click the title of the event it will display more information, often including links to the full details for the event – the location, the cost of the event, where to buy tickets, etc.
Search
There’s a search box that you can use to search for when specific events are (e.g. you could search for Community Worship to know when the next Community Worship services are). It doesn’t work to search for a specific date to see what’s happening on that date. After you search, make sure that you’re in List View to see events from more than the current month.
Go to a Specific Date
To jump to a specific date, click the ⌄ next to today’s date and select the date or month you want to go to.
See Only Events from Certain Calendars
If you click one of the color-coded category labels, it will show you only events for that institution. (You may want to switch to List view to see events for more than the current month.)
On the left-hand side, under Filters, click the + next to Select Calendars to View and then click the checkboxes for which institutions you would like to see events from. This doesn’t seem to be working in mobile view at the moment.
Other Notes
This is kind of clunky
Yup. This calendar isn’t as good-looking or user-friendly as it could be but we decided to make it available to you anyway, before we have all the bugs worked out. If you might be able to help make it work better, please get in touch (malcolm.smith@brynathynchurch.org).
Want to Add Something to the Calendar?
Before you contact us to add something to the calendar, please read these notes:
- This calendar is for events happening in the 19009 zip code and generally for events at least somewhat associated with the Bryn Athyn Church or General Church.
- This calendar is for events that are relevant to a large group of people. We are not, for example, including the complete ANC Secondary Schools and Bryn Athyn College athletics calendars in this community calendar because all of those games would not be relevant to a large enough group of people. (You can, however, find links to those calendars below.)
- We reserve the right to remove your event or not add your event to the calendar.
- Rather than adding your events manually we would prefer you to set up a digital calendar and then send us the feed from it so that we can add your events automatically.
More questions? Get in touch with Malcolm (malcolm.smith@brynathynchurch.org)
Have Questions About Specific Events? Don’t Ask Us
We are pulling in digital calendars from a variety of institutions. If you have questions about a particular event, please contact the institution who is putting that event on (see below). Bryn Athyn Church staff will not be able to answer your questions.
ANC Secondary Schools
Go to ancss.org, call 267-502-2500, or find their complete academic, athletic, social, and performing arts calendars here.
Bryn Athyn Borough
Go to brynathynboro.org or visit their Facebook page.
(BACS) Bryn Athyn Church School
Go to brynathynchurchschool.org or call (215) 947-4086.
Bryn Athyn College
Find calendars of Bryn Athyn College events here.
Bryn Athyn Church
Check the homepage, call (215) 947-6225, or email info@brynathynchurch.org.
C & S Club (Bryn Athyn Civic and Social Club)
Check their Facebook page.
Cairnwood Estate
Go to cairnwood.org, call (215) 947-2004, or email info@cairnwood.org.
Cairnwood Village
Call (215) 947-7705, email cairnwood.village.manager@gmail.com, or go to cairnwoodvillage.org.
Glencairn Museum
Go to glencairnmuseum.org, call (267) 502-2600, or email info@glencairnmuseum.org.
Junge Pavilion / Ice Rink
Go to their page on the Bryn Athyn College website or visit their Facebook page.
Mitchell Performing Arts Center
Go to mitchellcenter.info, call (267) 502-2793, or see their complete rehearsal calendar.
NewChurch Live
Go to newchurchlive.tv or call (215) 947-2166.
Other
These events come from a variety of places. Click on the title for the individual event to learn more. To find out more about Bryn Athyn Boy Scout Troop 97 events go to batroop97.org