Campelhar.org
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Camp El Har Home Page - Year round retreat, adventure center and summer youth camp in Dallas TX
- UPDATE**** Camp El Har was sold to Teen/Life Challenge of Dallas, which petitioned the city in June 2007 to rezone the camp to allow them to put 100 men with "life control issues" there on a residential basis. Camp El Har is no longer a Christian day camp for youths.
Description
As Dr. Harlin Roper and a group of Christian leaders prayed under a tree on a hill in south Dallas, they felt a call from God to found a camping ministry. On November 11, 1937, Camp El Har, "Hill of God" was founded on that spot.
As Dr. Harlin Roper and a group of Christian leaders prayed under a tree on a hill in south Dallas, they felt a call from God to found a camping ministry. On November 11, 1937, Camp El Har, "Hill of God" was founded on that spot. Early camp leaders envisioned that all who entered the camp gates would be ministered to by God’s word in God’s creation. The camp began to grow as the Holy Spirit led the work of evangelism. Camp El Har was the first independent Christian camp in the state of Texas.
During the first years roads were cleared and power lines were run to the property. The first buildings erected were a workshop and garage which would be converted into a sleeping lodge. In the early 1940s, the tabernacle ‘a pavilion’, was built using trees cut from the camp property and surrounding grounds. In 1946, El Har’s swimming pool was dug out of solid rock by volunteers with jack hammers and four mules. It was the gift of citizens and corporations which made the camp growth possible.
