Hal Shurtleff

Director and Co-Founder of Camp Constitution.

Christian Leaders Letter to Trump on Syria

 

Our friend at Save the Persecuted Christians    Home – Save the Persecuted Christians  asked usto sign this letter.  We were honored to do so.

 

 

The Honorable Donald J. Trump

President of the United States

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20500

 

Dear Mr. President,

We, the undersigned faith leaders representing tens of millions of American Christians, extend our sincere gratitude for your recent leadership in combating Christian persecution in Nigeria. Your designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act is a decisive measure that upholds global religious liberty.

You are the only major world leader fighting for religious freedom, and we need you once again to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

With the visit of Syria’s new President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, scheduled for November 10, 2025, we urge you to address directly the massacre of Christians, Kurds, Druze, and Alawites in Syria, notably in the greater Suwayda area. These religious minorities face ongoing violence, death, displacement, starvation, and water and medical deprivation, all while innocent women and children are held hostage by ISIS terrorists.

We are grateful for your Administration’s recent announcement that you are urgently rushing humanitarian aid to southern Syria, and—as winter approaches—more needs to be done to prevent the impending catastrophe.

Mr. President, we respectfully request that you secure President al-Sharaa’s commitment to opening a secure humanitarian corridor from Hader to Suwayda in southern Syria.

This corridor will enable safe and secure aid delivery and civilian evacuation, signaling the new government’s commitment to minority rights and stability.

Your advocacy for the persecuted inspires us.

We stand ready to support your efforts and pray for fruitful discussions.  As Ambassador Mike Huckabee once wrote to you, “You were ordained for such a time as this.”

 

With Deepest Respect,

Dede Laugesen

President & CEO, Save the Persecuted Christians

Jack Hibbs

Founding Pastor, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills

Eric Metaxas

Religious Liberty Commission

Jason Rapert

Founder & President, National Association of Christian Lawmakers

Matt Crouch

President, Trinity Broadcasting Network

Patrick G. Brown

CEO, Western Journal

Dr. Alveda King

SPEAK FOR LIFE

Travis Johnson

Lead Pastor, Pathway Church

CEO, People for Care and Learning

Tim Head

President & CEO, Unify Us

Stephen Strang

Founder, Charisma Media

Kelly Shackelford

President, CEO & Chief Counsel

First Liberty Institute

David Barton

Founder, Wallbuilders

Tim Barton

President, Wallbuilders

Mario Braminick

President, Latino Coalition for Israel

Richard Harris

Executive Director, Truth and Liberty Coalition

Jackson Lahmeyer 

Pastor, Sheridan Church

Founder, Pastors For Trump

Gary Bauer

President, American Values

Matthew Faraci

Senior Advisor for Jewish and Israel Affairs, National Association of Christian Lawmakers

Frank J. Gaffney

President, Institute for the American Future

Walker Wildmon

CEO, American Family Association Action

Tony Perkins

President, Family Research Council

Bob McEwen 

US House of Representatives, Fmr. Member, Ohio

Lucas Miles

Senior Pastor, Nfluence Church 

Suzanne Grishman

Executive Director, The Nazarene Fund

Craig DeRoche

President & CEO, Family Policy Alliance

Victor Marx

Chairman, Board of Directors, All Things Possible

Candidate for Governor of Colorado 2026

Joni Lamb

President, Daystar Television Network

Jerry Newcombe

Executive Director, Providence Forum

Dr. Robert Pacienza

Senior Pastor, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church 

Rev. Kevin Jessip

President, Global Strategic Alliance

Dr. Jeff Myers

President, Summit Ministries

Lorenzo Sewell

Senior Pastor, 180 Church

George Parker

Executive Director, Revealing Light Ministries

Nadine Maenza

Co-chair, International Religious Freedom Roundtable 

Dr. Bob Rodgers

Pastor, Evangel World Prayer Center

David and Nicole Crank

Co-founders and lead pastors of FaithChurch

Rick Joyner

Founder & Ex. Director of MorningStar Ministries

Richard Ghazal, Esq.

Executive Director, In Defense of Christians (IDC)

Drew Bowling

Executive Director, Catholics for Trump Vance

Faith McDonnell

Director of Advocacy, Kartartismos Global

Lauren Homer

Founder and President, Law & Liberty International 

Dr. Gregory H. Stanton

Founding President​, Genocide Watch, C​hair, ​The Alliance Against Genocide

Dr. Ben Carson

Vice Chair, Religious Liberty Commission

Kimberly Fletcher 

Founder & President, Moms for America

Dr. Jack Graham

Senior Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church

Ralph Reed

Founder & Chairman, Faith & Freedom Coalition

Rob McCoy

Senior Pastor, Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks

Kevin Sorbo

Director, Actor, Producer

Troy Miller

President & CEO, National Religious Broadcasters

Samuel Rodriguez

President & CEO, NHCLC

Frank Turek

President, CrossExamined.org

Mark Driscoll

Founding Pastor, Trinity Church in Scottsdale

John Amanchukwu

Founder & CEO, IKNOWGOD.US

Dr. Scott Colter

CEO, Danbury Institute

Sam Brownback

Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom 

Greg Locke

Founder, Global Vision Bible Church

Frank Pavone

National Director, Priests for Live

Chad Connelly

Founder & CEO, Faith Wins

Jim Garlow

Founder & CEO, Well Versed

Ryan Helfenbein

Founder & Executive Director, Standing for Freedom Center

Luke Moon

Executive Director, The Philos Project

Robert Stearns

Bishop, Founder & President, Eagles Wings

Dave Kubal

President & CEO, Intercessors for America

Jorge Parrott

President, Christ’s Mandate for Missions

LTG (Ret.) Jerry Boykin

Vice President, Family Research Council

Mike Farris

Religious Freedom Litigator

Harold Shurtleff

Director, Camp Constitution, Plaintiff “Shurtleff v Boston”

Greg Young

Pastor, Chosen Generation Radio

Allen Jackson

Senior Pastor, World Outreach Church

Kelly M. Kullberg

General Secretary, American Association of Evangelicals (AAE)

Drew Bowling

Executive Director, Catholics for Trump Vance

Dr. Malachi A. O’Brien

Pastor, The Church at Pleasant Ridge

Former VP, SBC

Dr. Jay Strack

Founder, Student Leadership University

Mike Evans

Founder, Friends of Zion

Charmaine Hedding

President, The Shai Fund

Kelvin L. Cobaris

Bishop, New Life Church International

William J. Murray

President, Religious Freedom Coalition

Sucharitha Cole

President, International Christian Rescue Mission.

Paul Pickern,

Executive Director, All Pro Pastors International

Joe Kennedy

Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Mariam Ibraheem

Persecution Survivor

Patricia Streeter

Co-leader, Anglican Persecuted Church Network

Ann Schockett

Chair, More Like Us

Douglas Burton

Managing Editor, TruthNigeria

Jacqueline Halbig von Schleppenbach

CEO, Sovereign Global Solutions

 

Camp Constitution T-Shirts With a Message

Camp Constitution has made three T-shirts available on our on-line shop.  They include quotes on education by Pastor Voddie Baucham and Malcolm X, and one concerning “climate change.’   (Disclaimer:  We do not endorse the late Malcolm X but he did say some things which we agree and this quote is one of them.)  Cost of each T-shirt $20 which includes shipping,  Men’s sizes small, medium, large, x-large, and xx-large.  Color for the Voddie and Malcolm X shirts Heather Grey.  The CO2 shirt is white.  Links to order the shirts:

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American Minute with Bill Federer Star Chamber Secret Trials, Jails, Persecution of Christians; Pilgrims Fled to Holland, then New England

 

American Minute with Bill Federer

Star Chamber Secret Trials, Jails, Persecution of Christians; Pilgrims Fled to Holland, then New England

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Britain’s William Laud sent spies to listen to pastors’ sermon to see if they said anything against the King’s ordinances … continue reading …

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The Treacherous World of the 16th Century and How the Pilgrims Escaped It: The Prequel to America’s Freedom

If any pastor violated the government’s mandates, they were arrested.

The rigged trials were held in a secret government room called the “Star Chamber.”

These arbitrary and oppressive inquisitions did not allow those who were arrested to have defense attorneys, or meet their accusers.

No witnesses were allowed.

Though the secret hearings started with the intention of cutting through the red tape of bureaucracy, Britain’s Court of Star Chamber proceeded to usurp power.

It became a political weapon for auditing, intimidating and punishing opponents to the King’s policies, similar to modern-day IRS audits or partisan secret special counsel investigations.

Individuals were subject to hostile questioning, and if they gave unsatisfactory answers, they were charged with perjury.

If they did not answer for fear of self-incrimination, they were held in contempt of court.

The founders of the Baptist faith in England, John Smyth, John Murton, and Thomas Helwys, were each arrested and imprisoned, with Helwys dying in the notorious Newgate Prison, described as “hell above ground.”

The abuses of England’s Star Chamber led America’s founders to include the Fifth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.

Notoriously biased in favor of the King, the Star Chamber was used in 1637 by William Laud to punish religious dissenters, such as William Prynne who objected to the state’s control over religious matters.

William Prynne was tied to a pillory – a public pillar – where he had his ears cut off and was branded on the cheeks with the letters “S.L.” for seditious libel, which Prynne called the “Sign of Laud.”

William Laud approved of the Star Chamber’s sentence of dissenting Pastor Henry Burton for his “seditious” sermons, resulting in his ears cut off and imprisonment.

When John Bastwick published religious opinions which opposed government mandates, he was brought before the Star Chamber.

He, too, had his ears cut off and was thrown in prison.

Dr. Marshall Foster, of the World History Institute, co-produced with Kirk Cameron the 2012 film Monumental: In Search of America’s National Treasure.

Marshall Foster wrote in “A Shining City on a Hill,” February 27, 2013:

“When King James died in 1625, his son Charles I ascended to the throne with the arrogance of a Roman emperor.

He was the quintessential ‘divine right’ monarch. He declared martial law and suspended the rights of the individual …

The king’s inquisitors at his ‘Star Chamber’ in the tower of London used torture techniques to ‘discover the taxpayer’s assets’ …”

Dr. Foster continued:

“A turning point in public opinion took place on January 30, 1637.

Three prisoners were locked down in the pillory in London before a huge crowd …

… These men included a Puritan minister, a Christian writer and Dr. John Bastwick, a physician.

What was their crime? They had written pamphlets disagreeing with the king’s religious views.

The sheriff began by branding the men with red hot irons on the forehead with an SL for seditious libel.”

The Star Chamber forced similar fates on religious dissenter Alexander Leighton, and John Lilburn, who had coined the term “freeborn rights,” a term often cited by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.

American biographer Edgar Lee Masters, 1868-1950, wrote:

“In the Star Chamber the council could inflict any punishment short of death, and frequently sentenced objects of its wrath to the pillory, to whipping and to the cutting off of ears …

With each embarrassment to arbitrary power the Star Chamber became emboldened to undertake further usurpation …

The Star Chamber finally summoned juries before it for verdicts disagreeable to the government, and fined and imprisoned them.

It spread terrorism among those who were called to do constitutional acts. It imposed ruinous fines.”

Dr. Marshal Foster concluded:

“The tyranny of the king … finally aroused the Christian sensibilities of the people. They would no longer tolerate burnings or mutilations for matters of conscience on religious views …

The persecutions drove tens of thousands of liberty loving believers to follow the Pilgrims to New England where they laid the foundation for the world’s most biblically based nation.”

One of those thrown in prison by William Laud during this time was Edward Winslow, one of the Pilgrim settlers.

Edward Winslow was the agent for the Pilgrim colony in America and would sail back and forth bringing supplies.

His wife had died in the first winter of the Plymouth Colony and he remarried widow Susanna White, whose husband had died that same winter.

On one of his trips back to England, Edward Winslow was thrown in jail for 17 weeks because he had performed marriages in the Plymouth colony without being ordained.

The Pilgrims had a covenant church structure, seeking to return to the simplicity of the early New Testament church.

This followed Tyndale’s and Coverdale’s Bible translation of the Greek word “ekklesia” as “congregation” or “assembly,” rather than “church.”

Pilgrims believed that marriage was only between a man and a woman, being created by God for the benefit of their natural and spiritual life: procreation of children to increase Christ’s flock; and to avoid the sin of adultery.

The Pilgrims with an open Geneva Bible is portrayed in the painting “Embarkation of the Pilgrims” hanging in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda

The Geneva Bible gives the words of Jesus in the Book of Matthew 19:4-6:

“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,

And said, For this cause, shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they twain, shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.”

Edward Winslow, born October 18, 1595, was the only Pilgrim to have his portrait painted.

His original career was a printer, when he joined a group of Christian Separatists who fled to Holland in 1608 to escape religious persecution.

During this period, known as the Dutch Golden Age, Holland was the center of the world’s foremost economic maritime power.

Dutch Reformed was Holland’s predominant faith, but the country led the world in extending religious toleration to other Christian denominations.

Settling in 1609 in Leiden, Holland, Edward Winslow helped the Pilgrim Separatist leader William Brewster print illegal religious pamphlets which were smuggled back into England.

William Brewster taught University of Leiden students.

The University of Holland also taught Hebrew, as did England’s Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, since 1549 and 1575, respectively.

The King of England sent spies and police to Holland where they raided and confiscated the printing press used by Winslow and Brewster.

After years of hardship, Edward Winslow, at the age of 25, departed with 102 Pilgrims for the New World.

In 1622, Winslow cured Indian Chief Massasoit of an illness, resulting in the Indians and Pilgrims making a peace treaty which lasted over 50 years. If the chief had not recovered, the Indians would have killed Winslow.

Accompanying Winslow’s meeting with Massasoit was Stephen Hopkins.

Hopkins had been the minister’s clerk on the vessel Sea Venture headed to Virginia in 1609.

The ship was caught in a hurricane and the 150 survivors were shipwrecked on Bermuda.

Hopkins took part in fomenting a mutiny, for which he was sentenced to death, but his friends procured a pardon from the Governor, the account of which became the basis of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, 1610.

He served as an indentured servant till he was deported back to England in 1614.

In 1620, he was a passenger on the Mayflower with the Pilgrims and signed the Mayflower Compact.

Beginning in 1621, Hopkins served several times as an emissary to Chief Massasoit.

Edward Winslow served three times as the Plymouth Colony’s Governor.

He kept the finances and often sailed back to England for business with the Colony’s adventurers (investors), bringing back the colony’s first cattle.

On one trip to England in 1625, as described in Governor William Bradford’s History of the Plymouth Settlement, Edward Winslow encountered Muslim Barbary Pirates expanding the Islamic State on the sea:

“The adventurers (investors) … sent over two fishing ships …

The pinnace (light sailing ship) was ordered to load with corfish … to bring home to England … and besides she had some 800 lbs. of beaver, as well as other furs, to a good value from the plantation.

… The captain seeing so much lading wished to put aboard the bigger ship for greater safety, but Mr. Edward Winslow, their agent in the business, was bound in a bond to send it to London in the small ship …

The captain of the big ship … towed the small ship at his stern all the way over.

So they went joyfully home together and had such fine weather that he never cast her off till they were well within the England channel, almost in sight of Plymouth.

… But even there she was unhapply taken by a Turkish man-of-war and carried off to Saller – Morocco – where the captain and crew were made slaves.

Thus all their hopes were dashed and the joyful news they meant to carry home was turned to heavy tidings …”

Bradford added:

“In the big ship Captain Myles Standish … arrived … in London …

The friendly adventurers were so reduced by their losses … and now by the ship taken by the Turks … that all trade was dead.”

Edward Winslow sailed back to England after the English Civil War.

He published pamphlets defending the New England colonies, such as:

  • “Hypocrisy Unmasked,” 1646;
  • “New England’s Salamander Discovered,” 1647;
  • “Introduction to Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England,” 1649.

Winslow served in briefly in Oliver Cromwell’s army during England’s Civil War, 1642-1651.

Edward Winslow sailed with Admiral Sir William Penn, father of Pennsylvania’s founder, in an attempt to capture Santo Domingo, Hispaniola, from Spain.

They were unsuccessful.

Admiral Sir William Penn then sailed to the Island of Jamaica and captured from the Spanish in 1655.

On the way, Winslow contracted the deadly disease of yellow fever and died.

Andrew Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims recorded a spiritual quote of Edward Winslow’s, who wrote of the Pilgrims response during a time of crisis:

“Drought and the like … moved not only every good man privately to enter into examination with his own estate between God …

but also to humble ourselves together before the Lord by fasting.”

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The Write Side Blonde: An Interview with the creator of REDWHITEBLUE Magazine for Young Readers

Hal Shurtleff, host of the Camp Constitution Report, interviews Rachel “The Write Side Blonde”

From her website: https://www.writesideblonde.com/

Iowa Roots

Born and raised in the great state of Iowa — yes, on a farm — I have found a profound passion for learning politics and inspiring Americans to get involved. In Iowa, working hard is a given. You’re taught to take responsibility for your future, to be quiet and listen so you can better understand, but also to step up when necessary. Each is equally important. Too often we think we need to have things perfectly figured out before we take the first step. From here on out however, let’s all agree that in most cases, that mentality is outdated and extremely inefficient. All it takes is a little grit and some passion, and the rest will sort itself out.

My Educational Journey

I decided at the age of 18 to forego a journalism degree and instead received a master’s in Exercise Physiology with a focus on childhood obesity. After writing my thesis, and upon graduation, I realized the food here is not healthy and our “health” care system is set up for failure: for treatment, not for prevention. The most important thing I learned from grad school, aside from learning how to research, is the concept of “temporary truths.” One of my advisors introduced this notion in class, and it has stuck with me ever since. Things and people evolve, and as a result, can change an entire society’s perception of what is considered morally acceptable.

My Political Awakening

I voted for Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 and after not voting in 2012 due to my dislike of both candidates, I cast my vote for Donald J. Trump in 2016. I frequently discuss this shift and why I am proud to be a Trump supporter now. I hope my journey can help others see the heavy propaganda and other tactics used on us for many years. Inspiration from George I have every original George Magazine from 1995 to 2001 as well as both George books. Much like JFK Jr’s stance, politics is too important to be left to the politicians. We must learn to put our focus on what unites us, seek to understand our differences, and celebrate the passion we share for the future of our country. The Power of Free Speech I believe everyone deserves a voice, even those society deems dangerous or unworthy because in the end, I trust the American people to form their own conclusions. As Louis Brandeis put it in 1927, “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” Join Me in Taking Action I hope you enjoy my site, but more importantly, I hope you to take action and get involved!

 

 

The United Nations:  The House That Hiss Built It is Time for Us to Get Out

 

Sportswriter Fred Lieb coined the term “The House that Ruth built” referring to the old Yankee Stadium which opened in 1923.  Not too far from Yankee Stadium is “The House that Hiss Built” which is the United Nations Headquarters.  Alger Hiss was the UN’s first acting secretary who co-authored, with a Soviet national, the United Nations charter.  He was also, as the world discovered a few years later, a Soviet agent during Stalin’s reign of terror.  That is correct.  The man who cowrote the U.N. Charter, who served as an advisor to Franklin Roosevelt, was a communist spy.  Former Communist agent Whittaker Chambers exposed Hiss.  He authored the book Witness to tell his story and his connection to Hiss.  This and many other facts are kept from our nation’s government school children in their Model United Nations programs.

So, it should come as no surprise that the U.N. Charter and its Universal Declaration of Rights passed are diametrically opposed to the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence.  In the United States, rights come from God and the main purpose of government is to protect those God given rights.  The U.N.’s organic documents make no reference to God, and it implies that rights come from governments, and can be taken away by those same governments.  The U.N’s Declaration of Rights grants the right of religion, the right of nationality, education, and even the right to leisure, but in Article 29, all of these government granted rights can be taken away:

“ In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order, and the general welfare in a democratic society.

These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.”

This explains why the U.N. membership is replete with despotic regimes.

 October 24 marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations.   It was sold to a war weary world as Mankind’s last and best hope for peace. In reality, its purpose from its inception was to be a world government.  The long-standing goals of the U.N. include a world army, a fully functioning world court, a world tax, world education standards, and world population control which is already being implemented in Third-World countries.

                                                                                                         WHO

WHO-The World Health Organization- is a UN’ entity founded in 1948.  It’s head,  Dr. Tedius Ghebreyesuswas a senior member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front-a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group.  He also has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. This explains why WHO adopted the CCP’s Covid protocols which in turn the U.S. adopted.    President Trump wisely got us out WHO for the second time but not before the damage was done.

                                                                                                UN  “Peacekeepers”

One of the most Orwellian terms I know is “U.N. Peacekeepers.”    They were first used in Katanga, a province in what was once called the Belgian Congo, now Zaire in the early 1960s.  Soviet trained Patrice Lumumba became the leader of the nation.  Dr. Moise Tshombe, a pro-Western Christian leader of Katanga seceded from the nation.  In direct violation of its charter, the U.N. sent in its “peacekeepers” mainly white soldiers from Ireland-were sent to Katanga.  They murdered, and raped civilians and bombed hospitals and radio stations.   Their mission in Côte d’Ivoire from 2003-2017 was rife with sexual abuse of children.  Other nations that experienced sexual abuse by U.N. Peacekeepers include Sri Lanka, Haiti. Sudan, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Bosnia, and Kosovo. U.N. troops tortured to death a Somali teenager, and the pro-U.N. American media outlets in the U.S. ignored this horror.

                                                                                                     Agenda 21-2030

The UN’s tentacles aren’t in faraway nations; they are in our neighborhood.  In 1992, it introduced Agenda 21, now Agenda 2030.   President Bush signed on to it and President Clinton’s administration made it the policy of the U.S. Government.  Today, hundreds of towns and cities  including Wolfeboro and Concord, NH belong to another U.N entity, ICLEI-International Council for Local Environmental Initiative.      No peacekeepers are needed.  The policies of Agenda 21 are being implemented locally.  Plastic bag and straw bans, bike lanes on busy streets, solar panels in what were once green fields, and climate change propaganda in our schools are just a few examples of the local implementation of Agenda 21.  This is a quote from the “Father of Agenda 21, the late Maurice Strong, who was a billionaire oilman and New Age devotee:

“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable.”

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has introduced the Disengaging Entirely from the United Nations Debacle (DEFUND) Act, which calls for the United States’ complete withdrawal from the United Nations.  It is high time that we got out of the United Nations.

A book we recommend available at Camp Constitution’s on-line shop:  https://campconstitution.net/product/inside-the-united-nations-a-critical-look-at-the-un-by-steve-bonta/

A Tour of the Forefathers Monument with Leo Martin

 

Camp Constitution took a trip to the Forefathers Monument and the Jenney Museum in Plymouth, MA on Saturday October 11, 2025. The tour of the monument was conducted by Leo Martin who with his wife Nancy, own the Jenney Museum. https://thejenney.org/ Camp Constitution is a New Hampshire based charitable trust. We run a week-long family camp, man information tables at various venues, have a book publishing arm, and post videos from our camp and others that we think are of importance. Please visit our website www.campconstitution.net

 

Columbus Day Celebration Hosted by Pine Tree Institute- New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women

This event took place at Murphy’s Taproom and Carriage House Bedford, NH Columbus Day Monday October 13, 2025. It began with a reading of President Trump’s Columbus Day Proclamation. Speakers included Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, NH State Senate Tim McGough, Hollie Noveletsky, Business owner, and candidate for U.S House of Reps, Scott Brown, former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to New Zealand, Lily Tang Williams, candidate for Congress, NH State Rep. Brian Cole, and Christine Peters of the New Hampshire Federated Republican Women. The MV was Bill O’Brien, former NH Speaker of the House.

 

 

Miscalculation of Global Proportions led Columbus to attempt a a westward voyage – American Minute with Bill Federer

  Miscalculation of Global Proportions led Columbus to attempt a a westward voyage

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Columbus was looking for a SEA route to India and China because nearly 40 years earlier Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 cutting off the LAND routes.

A biography of Columbus was written by Washington Irving in 1828, titled A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

In it, Irving created an imaginative dialogue of Europeans arguing over whether the Earth was round or flat. His book was so popular, that people actually thought such a debate took place when it had not.
Washington Irving was known for mixing entertainment with history and legend.
He wrote Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hallow, and Diedrich Knickerbocker’s A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, filled with tales of visits from St. Nick coining to New York City, which he nickname “Gotham.”
 Europeans knew the Earth was round.
Pythagoras had speculated that the earth was a sphere in the 6th century BC, and Aristotle validated it in the 4th century BC.
In the 3rd century BC, Eratosthenes computed the circumference of the earth with amazing accuracy.
He had heard that at Aswan, Egypt, the sun cast no shadow down a well at noon on the summer solstice, June 21, yet at the exact same moment in Alexandria, Egypt, a column cast a shadow with a 7.2 degree angle.
7.2 degrees is 1/50th of a 360 degree circle.
It was known that the distance between Alexandria and Aswan was 5,000 stadia, approximately 500 miles, or 800 kilometers.
All Eratosthenes had to do was multiply 500 miles times 50, which equals 25,000 miles, just 99 miles off from the Earth’s actual circumference of 24,901 miles (or 800 km x 50 to equal 40,000 kilometers, just 75 kilometers less than the actual 40,075 km circumference).
Eratosthenes also calculated distance to the sun and moon, the tilt of the earth, and created the first world map with parallel latitude and meridian longitude lines.
In the 1st century BC, Posidonius used stellar observations at Alexandria and Rhodes to confirm Eratosthenese’s measurements.

In the 2nd century AD, astronomer Ptolemy had written a Guide to Geography, in which he described a spherical earth with one ocean connecting Europe and Asia.
St. Isidore of Seville, Spain, wrote in the 7th century that the earth was round.
Around the year 723 AD, Saint Bede the Venerable wrote in his work Reckoning of Time that the Earth was spherical.
The Book of Isaiah 40:22 states:
“It is He that sitteth upon the globe of the earth.” (Douay-Rheims Bible)
Columbus knew the Earth was round, but the question was, how far around.
The confusion was over the length of a mile.

Columbus read Cardinal Pierre d’Ailly’s “Imago Mundi,” which gave Alfraganus’ estimate that a degree of latitude (at the equator) was around 56.7 miles.

What Columbus did not realize was that this was expressed in longer Arabic miles rather than in shorter Roman miles.
 Therefore Columbus incorrectly estimated the Earth to be smaller in circumference, about 19,000 miles, rather than the actual nearly 24,901 miles.
Columbus knew there was land to the west, as he may have read Ptolemy’s account, written in 150 AD, of the Greek sailor named Alexander, who visited the Far East port city of Kattigara, beyond the Malay Peninsula  — Golden Chersonese.
He could have heard of the Roman traveler, during the reign of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius, who made his way to the court of the Chinese Emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Indeed, Roman glassware and medallions dating from this period were found at Guangzhou along the South China Sea, and at Óc Eo in Vietnam, near the Chinese province of Jiaozhi.
Great amounts of Roman coins were found in India, indicating there was Roman sea trade.
Columbus most likely heard the story of Irish monk St. Brendan, who sailed west in 530 AD to “The Land of the Promised Saints which God will give us on the last day.”
Columbus would have known of the Christian Viking Leif Erickson’s voyage in the year 1000 to Vinland (Newfoundland), called Markland in the Nordic Grœnlendinga Saga.
A Dominican friar in Milan, Italy, named Galvaneus Flamma, wrote an essay titled Cronica universalis, c.1345, in which he referred to the Icelandic description of a wooded land far to the west called Marckalada.
Columbus owned a copy of Marco Polo’s travels to China and India in 1271.
He studied Pliny’s “Natural History,” Sir John Mandeville, and Pope Pius II’s “Historia Rerum Ubique Gestarum.”

There were accounts that after the Crusades had ended, some Swedes in 1362 sailed to Greenland, and possibly beyond to North America, being the alleged background for the Kensington Runestone.

Columbus may have possibly seen maps, rumored to have been in Portugal’s royal archives, from China’s treasure fleets which were sent out in 1421 by Ming Emperor Zhu Di, led by Admiral Zheng He.
Columbus corresponded with Florentine physician Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, who suggested China was just 5,000 miles west of Portugal.
Based on this, Columbus estimated that Japan, or as Marco Polo called it “Cipangu,” was only 3,000 Roman miles west of the Canary Islands, rather than the actual 12,200 miles.
Since no ship at that time could carry enough food and water for such a long voyage, Columbus would have never set sail if he had known the actual distance.
As a young man, Columbus began sailing on a trip to a Genoese colony in the Aegean Sea named Chios.
In 1476, he sailed on an armed convoy from Genoa to northern Europe, docking in Bristol, England, and Galway, Ireland, and even possibly Iceland in 1477.
When Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 and hindered land trade routes from Europe to India and China, Portugal, which had been freed from Islamic occupation for two centuries, began to search for alternative sea routes.
W.L. Grant, Professor of Colonial History, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, wrote in the introduction of The Voyages
and Explorations of Samuel de Champlain (published 1911, The Courier Press, A.S. Barnes Company):
“The history of Western Civilization begins in a conflict with the Orient, a conflict of which it maybe the end is not yet.
But the routes between East and West have been trodden by the caravans of trade more often even than by the feet of armies.
The treasures of the East were long brought overland to Alexandria, or Constantinople, or the cities of the Levant, and thence distributed to Europe by the galleys of Genoa or of Venice.
But when the Turk placed himself astride the Bosporus, and made Egypt his feudatory, new routes had to be found.”
Socialist historian Howard Zinn admitted in A People’s History of the United States (1980):
“Now that the Turks had conquered Constantinople and the eastern Mediterranean, and controlled the land routes to Asia, a sea route was needed.
Portuguese sailors were working their way around the southern tip of Africa.
Spain decided to gamble on a long sail across an unknown ocean.”
Portugal, under Prince Henry the Navigator, led the world in the science of navigation and cartography (map-making), and developed a light ship that could travel fast and far, the “caravel.”
During Portugal’s Golden Age of Discovery under King John II, Columbus sailed along the west coast of Africa between 1482-1485, reaching the Portuguese trading port of Elmina on the coast of Guinea.
In 1498, Portuguese sailor Vasco de Gama did make it around South Africa to India.
But six years before that, in 1492, the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella defeated Muhammad XII of Granada and drove the last of the Islamic Nasrid Dynasty out of Spain.
The Spanish Monarchs then joined the quest for a sea trade route to the India and China.
They backed Columbus’ plan.
Though Columbus was wrong about the miles and degrees of longitude, he did understand trade winds across the Atlantic.
 On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail on the longest voyage to that date out of the sight of land.
 Trade winds called “easterlies” pushed Columbus’ ships for five weeks to the Bahamas.
On OCTOBER 12, 1492, Columbus sighted what he thought was India.
 He imagined Haiti was Japan and Cuba was the tip of China.
He called the first island he saw “San Salvador” for the Holy Savior.
W.L. Grant continued in the introduction of The Voyages
and Explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1911, The Courier Press, A.S. Barnes Co.):
“In the search for these were made the three greatest voyages in history, those of Columbus, of Vasco da Gama, and greatest of all of Magellan.
In his search for the riches of Cipangu (Japan), Columbus stumbled upon America.
The great Genoese lived and died under the illusion that he had reached the outmost verge of Asia; and though even in his lifetime men realized that what he had found was no less than a new world.”
In his journal, Columbus referred to the native inhabitants as “indians” as he was convinced he had successfully arrived in India:
“So that they might be well-disposed towards us, for I knew that they were a people to be … converted to our Holy Faith rather by love than by force, I gave to some red caps and to others glass beads …
They became so entirely our friends that … I believe that they would easily be made Christians.”
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News arrived in Europe that in 1570, Ottoman Turks under the command of Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, captured Nicosia, Cyprus, after a 50-day siege.

 

20,000 captured Nicosians were executed.

Women and boys were sold as slaves.

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In 1571, Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha surrounded the Christians in Famagusta, Cyprus, the last stronghold of Western Europe in the Eastern Mediterranean.

He promised the defenders of Cyprus that if they surrendered, they would be allowed to leave.

Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha broke his promise.

He flayed alive Venetian commander, Marco Antonio Bragadin, and ordered the execution of all 6,000 Christian prisoners.

The beautiful St. Nicholas Church was turned into the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque.

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul was converted into the Sinan Pasha Mosque.

After this, the Sultan planned on attacking Rome, and from there conquer the rest of western Europe.

The Sultan’s threat was taken serious, as centuries earlier, in 846 AD, Rome was attacked by 11,000 Muslim pirates.

They sacked the city, looted the old St. Peter’s basilica, and the church St. Paul Outside the Wall, and desecrated the graves of both St. Peter and St. Paul.

In response, Pope Leo the Fourth built a 39 foot high wall around the Vatican.

In 1571, with the Sultan again threatening Rome, Pope Pius the Fifth used all his influence to get the Christian states of Spain, Naples, Sicily, Venice, Genoa, Sardinia, Savoy, Urbino, Papal States, Germans, and Croatians to assemble into the Holy League.

The Holy League insisted that their fleet be led by the 24-year-old son of King Charles the Fifth of Spain – Don John of Austria.

Spain used gold from the New World to fit out its navy to keep the Muslim Ottomans from taking over the Mediterranean.

On October 7, 1571, the largest and most decisive sea battle on the Mediterranean took place — the Battle of Lepanto off the western coast of Greece.

Don John of Austria led the 212 ships with nearly 68,000 soldiers and sailors of the Holy League.

A danger for soldiers fighting at sea, was that if they fell overboard, their armor would cause them to immediately sink.

Ali Pasha led the Muslim Ottoman Turks, consisting of 82,000 soldiers and sailors on 251 ships powered by thousands of Christian galley slaves rowing under the decks.

This was the last major battle with rowing vessels.

As the sun rose on the day of battle, the Holy League found itself at a great disadvantage, having to row against a strong wind.

Don John led his men on deck in a prayer, then suddenly the wind changed 180 degrees to favor the Holy League.

The Holy League’s ships collided into Ali Pasha’s ships. Fierce fighting went on for hours.

Don John sailed his flagship Real crashing into Ali Pasha’s ship.

Ali Pasha was soon killed, his vessel’s crescent flag was lowered and his head was hung high in its place.

This cause Ottoman warriors to lose heart.

The Ottomans lost 200 of their 230 ships.

Some 12,000 Christian galley slaves were released from under the decks.

Had the Ottomans not been defeated, they would have invaded Italy and possibly conquered Europe.

Telling the story of the freeing of the Christian galley slaves, G.K. Chesterton wrote in his epic poem, “Lepanto”:

“… Above the ships are palaces of brown, black-bearded chiefs,

And below the ships are prisons, where with multitudinous griefs,

Christian captives sick and sunless, all a laboring race repines

Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines …

They are lost like slaves that swat, and in the skies of morning hung

The stairways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young.

They are countless, voiceless, hopeless as those fallen or fleeing on

Before the high Kings’ horses in the granite of Babylon …

And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell

Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell,

And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign —

But Don John of Austria has burst the battle line! …

Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop (the rear stern deck),

Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,

Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,

Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,

Thronging of the thousands up that labor under sea

White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.

Vivat Hispania! Domino Gloria!

Don John of Austria has set his people free!”

Hilaire Belloc described the significance of the battle in The Great Heresies, 1938:

“This violent Mohammedan pressure on Christendom from the East made a bid for success by sea as well as by land …

The last great Turkish organization working now from the conquered capital of Constantinople, proposed to cross the Adriatic, to attack Italy by sea and ultimately to recover all that had been lost in the Western Mediterranean …”

Belloc continued:

“There was one critical moment when it looked as though the scheme would succeed.

A huge Mohammedan armada fought at the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth against the Christian fleet at Lepanto …

The Christians won that naval action and the Western Mediterranean was saved.

But it was a very close thing, and the name of Lepanto should remain in the minds of all men with a sense of history as one of the half dozen great names in the history of the Christian world.”

One of the Spanish sailors in the Battle of Lepanto was Miguel de Cervantes. He was later captured and made a slave in Algiers, North Africa.

After 5 years, he ransomed by Trinitarian Order, returned to Madrid, Spain, and there he wrote Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha, 1605, considered Europe’s first modern novel.

In an autobiographical passage, Cervantes wrote:

“They put a chain on me … with several others … marked out as held to ransom … We suffered from hunger and scanty clothing … seeing at every turn the unexampled and unheard–of cruelties my master inflicted upon the Christians …

Every day he hanged a man, impaled one, cut off the ears of another … all with so little provocation …

Turks acknowledged he did it merely for the sake of doing it … because he was by nature murderously disposed towards the whole human race.”

U.S. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts wrote in White Slavery in the Barbary States, 1853:

“Algiers, for a long time the most obnoxious place in the Barbary States of Africa, the chief seat of Christian slavery … the wall of the barbarian world …

And Cervantes, in the story of Don Quixote … give(s) the narrative of a Spanish captive who had escaped from Algiers …

 

The author is supposed to have drawn from his own experience; for during five and a half years he endured the horrors of Algerine slavery, from which he was finally liberated by a ransom of about six hundred dollars.”

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Camp Constitution’s Third Quarter Report for 2025

                                                                      Our Annual Family Camp

While our numbers were down from last year’s camp, we still had an excellent turnout with attendees coming as far as Alaska, Wyoming and Utah.

Returning instructors included Professor Willie Soon, one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, who attended with his family, Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Rev. Steve Craft who serves at the camp chaplain, Mrs. Catherine White of the Constitution Decoded, Dr. Felecia Nace, author of several books, and author and host of the Liberty Sentinel program, Alex Newman. Guest instructors included Michelle Gallagher, author of A Guide to the Forefather’s Monument, Mr. Kurt Hyde, an expert of election fraud, and Mr. Chris Burke who taught an optional class on the use of HAM Radios.   A link to our YouTube playlist of classes and activities at our camp:

https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PL7jnzBzBiNYDeD_94loNG8mUcUMFM2m2N/videos

                                                                   Camp Constitution Ladies Annual Spring Fling

We had our largest turnout for the Ladies “Spring Fling held for the 2nd year at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center in early May.  Our guest speakers were Karen Testerman, author and gubernatorial candidate, and Sue Ianni, a January Sixer.  The ladies also took a field trip to the Belknap County Sportsmen’s Club to do some marksmanship training.

                                                                                      Camp Constitution in the News

The publisher of the Rochester Voice, an on-line news for Greater Rochester, NH gave us a monthly column. -the Camp Constitution Report. Our monthly article now runs in four media outlets “The Boston Broadside” ‘The Weirs Times.” “The Granite Grok” and “The Rochester Voice.”

Our lawsuit “Shurtleff v Boston” continues to be mentioned in media outlets around the country especially during “Pride” Month. “Shurtleff v Boston” lawsuit was decided but it continues to be mentioned in the news around the country.  Our case was recently cited in a decision by the University of Massachusetts Amherst when the “Pride” flag was removed from a building, and in February our case was mentioned in a controversy at the Marblehead, MA High School.

 

                                                                                 Camp Constitution on the Air

In September, we were interviewed by Landry Crawford a 16 year-old homeschooler who hosts HisStory podcast.  We were return  guests on the Duke Pesta Show, The Sentinel Report hosted by Alex Newman, The Chuck Moscowitz Show, and the Tamara Scott Show.  And first time  New Hampshire Gospel Radio, and  by Shawn Crenshaw, the host of the  Biblical Conservative Show on the subject of Planed Parenthood.

                                                                                    The Camp Constitution Report

 In late August we received this E-mail regarding our podcast:

 My name is Anuj Agarwal, I’m the Founder of FeedSpot.

I would like to personally congratulate you as your podcast The Camp Constitution Report has been selected by our panelist as one of the Top 15 Constitution Podcasts on the web.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/constitution_podcasts/

This is the most comprehensive list of Top 15 Constitution Podcasts on the internet and I’m honored to have you as part of this!

You can also add your website link and other social media handles to get more visibility in our list and get discovered by brands for collaboration.

We’ve created a badge for you to share with your audience. You can display it on your website or post it on social media to showcase this amazing milestone.

We’d be grateful if you can help us spread the word by briefly mentioning about the Top 15 Constitution Podcasts list in any of your upcoming post.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

As a result, we have received some interesting requests for interviews.

   We did eighteen shows including interviews with Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer of the White House Faith Initiative, Adam Swart, founder of Crowds on Demand Jody Underwood of New Hampshire Educational Options, Karen Siegmund, President of the American Freedom Alliance, Woodrow Johnson, CEO of Revere Solutions, Michelle Gallagher, author of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook, Elena Barbera, producer and director of the documentary “American Groomer.  This show airs on our YouTube Channel, Rumble, Podomatic, Spotify, and about five other podcast formats: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2025-05-22T05_29_44-07_00

                                                                                       Special Projects

We are working with the Matric Coalition, a New Hampshire based entity whose mission is to donate poster of the Forefathers Monument, and copies of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook to local schools.  We donated several copies of the book and framed copies of the poster to Manchester Public Schools.  We donated hundreds of pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to Cornerstone Christian School in Ossipee, NH, and two Trail Life Troops in MA and NH.    

 We had floats in the Alton, NH Old Home Day Parade where we distributed 400 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution, and  a float in Lexington. MA’s 250 Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Lexington.  The evening before the Lexington Parade, we hosted our 3rd Annual Patriot’s Day Overnight at the Lane House where we took in the reenactments of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battle of Lexington.  We had information tables at six New Hampshire Education Options expositions. The Freedom Project Academy led by our friend Dr. Duke Pesta sponsored an essay contest for his students and offered three families free tuition at Camp Constitution’s annual family camp.   We had the opportunity to conduct an on-line class for a group of students both national and international. The topic was the U.S. Constitution.  We did a video for the Potomac Tea Party that was aired on Independence Day.

For the 17th year in a row, (with the exception of the Covid lockdown) we had info tables at the Mass HOPE homeschool convention, Homeschoolers of Maine, and the Crown of Maine’s Balloon Festival in Presque Isle. For the 2nd year in a row, we had an info table at the Londonderry, NH’s Old Home Day, and we co-sponsored Patriot Camp- a day camp program in Rockport, Maine hosted by Camp Constitution instructors Jessica Whitworth and Victoria Buckland.

 

                                                                                  Camp Constitution Media

We videotaped presentations made at the Sixth Annual Christian Education Initiative held in Lynchburg, VA in September, events at the last day of Patriot Camp held in Rockport, Maine, the classes and activities at our family camp, the Memorial Day Parade in Alton, NH sponsored by the American Legion and a presentation .by Dr. Chris Gnanakan of Liberty University.

                                                                                  YouTube,  Rumble and Bitchute

We got 361 new subscribers for the 2025 giving us  close to `17,200 subscribers overall.  We received 87.1 thousand views this year.  We uploaded 145 videos and  now have 1,700 videos uploaded.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN7ME18Q1xiqcrPEn5h5FbA

Our Rumble channel received 4,792 views the first nine months of the of the year.  We have uploaded some documentaries including “Operation Keelhaul” and “MAAFA 21 Black Genocide in the 2oth Century” as well as some classic anti-communists movies.

https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all

We have A Bitchute channel but haven’t uploaded many videos.  We were happy to discovered that we are getting thousands of views of our videos and will be uploading more videos in the future:   https://www.bitchute.com/profile/kiuIedaV8Erk

Camp Constitution Report on Podomatic and Other Platforms

We have received 204 plays and 1,333 downloads of our shows.  We continue to be in the top ten for the category of conservative-right.  In addition to our weekly show, we have uploaded some classic interviews and speeches by Dan Smoot, Gary Allen, and E. Merrill Root. A link to our show:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal

                                                                        Camp Constitution Press

 We reprinted in an 81/2” x 11” format, the free market classic “Frogs and Freedom”:

A link to purchase copies of these:  https://campconstitution.net/product/frogs-and-freedom-free-market-classic/

                                                                                  Speakers Bureau

In September, we spoke at the Goffstown, NH Homeschool cooperative.   We spoke at the August meeting of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Massachusetts chapter.  Also in August, we did three presentations in Aroostook County, Maine titled “Borders and Banners:  The Biblical View.” We gave a presentation at the Homeschoolers of Maine’s annual convention in May.  We were the keynote speaker at the Berkshire (MA) Republic Committee’s annual Lincoln-Reagan where we gave a presentation on our Christian flag lawsuit to a very receptive group.  Rev. Steve Craft was a speaker at an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Republican Assembly in late March.

                                                                                       Website

We have received 16.1 thousand views with 8.3 thousand visitors.  Twenty percent of our views come from foreign nations   We published eighty-six articles on our blog.  https://www.campconstitution.net

                                                                      Sam Blumenfeld Archives

We received over one million visits and 683,000 views.  Our all-time stats from its creation in 2017:  4.5 million visits, 3.6 million views.  views.  We introduce the archives to folks at all of our info tables and public events.

The Blumenfeld Archives

Facebook Page

We have close to 3.5 thousand likes l and over 3,600 following our page.  We also manage six other groups and one other page-all of them growing in members

                                                                      Stopping An Article V Convention

We helped defeat an Article V Convention resolution and a “faithful delegate bill in New Hampshire.”  We are part of a nationwide movement to protect the Constitution from an Article V Convention.  Thousands have read our articles, blogs and videos on the subject as well as downloaded our on-line resources.

                                                                      Looking into the next quarter

We are hosting a field trip to the Forefathers Monument in October, will have info tables at several NH Education Options fairs, a table at Harvest Happenings in Alton, NH ,  and hosting our annual Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners at the Lane House in Lexington, MA.

                                                                                 How You Can Help

Make a monthly donation or a one-time donation. Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net

If you own a business or are involved with a non-profit, consider a sponsorship for a minimum of $100. A year.

And, please keep Camp Constitution in your prayers.

Thank you for helping to make Camp Constitution possible.

Blessings.

Hal Shurtleff, Director

Camp Constitution

Alton, NH