Summer camp goes beyond the summer. Full time staff say that kind of thing a lot between August and June (the 9 months between) but that becomes especially true when the staff that we have been recruiting since October actually come to camp the first week of June. Recruiting 65-70 high school and college students [...]
Picking the summer theme for camp is no small task. Our summer theme dominates our marketing for the full year leading up to camp, influences the direction of our spiritual curriculum, and drastically affects my wardrobe choices for the entire summer. Sam and I spend hours staring at a computer screen bouncing ideas (some great, [...]
We could probably fill a whole book with testimonials, quotes, and reflections from our campers and alumni. Hearing stories like these remind us why we do camp ministry in the first place. Camp ministry impacts kids in so many positive ways — helping them grow in their character, expand their comfort zone, and take their [...]
Take it from someone who worked two summers at camp and had to return to his distant college campus every school year — it's hard to be away from camp. Camp is the place where my life was changed forever. It's where I fully understood what it meant to put my faith in action. Having [...]
