In September 2018, Shelter Neck, an historic 118 year old UU Camp in Pender County, NC was inundated from flooding from Hurricane Florence.
SHELTER NECK
The road crooks and bends and never ends
It passes field and wood
It bridges o'er the river bed
It leads to Shelter's rood
A simple place,
A quiet place,
Where journeys start and end
A place of quest
A place of rest
Where pilgrims spirits mend
This simple place
This quiet place
A home, a church, a school
Sits upon its sacred ground
In the twilight damp and cool
It sits upon its sacred ground
It stood the wind and rain
It took the floods, the muck, the mud
It waits to wake again
Come pilgrim, come stranger,
Come neighbor and friend
With journeyman or master's hand
Come raise the shelter at the neck of the river
That calls to awaken again.
The road crooks and bends and never ends
It passes field and wood
It bridges o'er the river bed
It leads to Shelter's rood
A simple place,
A quiet place,
Where journeys start and end
A place of quest
A place of rest
Where pilgrims spirits mend
This simple place
This quiet place
A home, a church, a school
Sits upon its sacred ground
In the twilight damp and cool
It sits upon its sacred ground
It stood the wind and rain
It took the floods, the muck, the mud
It waits to wake again
Come pilgrim, come stranger,
Come neighbor and friend
With journeyman or master's hand
Come raise the shelter at the neck of the river
That calls to awaken again.
Background design donated by graphic designer Meme Hernandez
