Summer Camp

The highlight of the year comes every August! There's nothing like it. A chance to be with your friends for several days, be in the heart of nature, goof off, and learn about God. We run three camps, one for each of the three grades in middle school. sixth grader enjoyed a three day camp, seventh graders had a four day camp while eighth graders benefited are going to have a new adventure camp. In addition to nightly Bible teachings the camp features a variety of day and evening programs, all promoting fun, new experiences and team building skills.

Day programs include:

Arts & Crafts...Making Tie Dye tee shirts and Duct tape wallets have been a big hit.

Sports and Recreation...Frisbee golf, kickball, and tag usually work.  

Outdoor adventure...High ropes course with zip lines, climbing wall, and archery are all popular   

Swimming...It's fun when you can get creative ideas like, "who can pick up the greased watermelon at the bottom."

 Evening Programs include:

Team Night...This crucial night, the first night of camp, is when we break down into our teams for the upcoming school year. Each team competes for the most original and funny team name, banner, song, etc.

Counselor Most Wanted night...who can find the counselors? Eight to ten counselors hide while students spend a half hour scouring camp for them. Each is represented by various point totals that will help your team win camp.

Chill With Your Cabin Night...This is a much needed mid week chill down event. It's a good time to slow down and hang with your cabin mates. Night hikes, bon fires, cards, board games are all popular.

Bon Fire Awards Night...The last night and the most sentimental, we gather around a bon fire, listen to a heart felt Bible teaching, give out a few awards to a handful of campers, and hang out with each other. We usually end the night with a commissioning of the new 8th graders.  Upon retiring to our cabins, each camper is awarded a certificate from their counselor for displaying a unique characteristic. Some of these wind up being emotionally moving while others are simply humorous.Campers also pay their counselors with a tribute. 

Getting into the Word: Teachings and Squad Group

Teachings:
Here's where Camp really makes the difference in students lives. The impact of these teachings makes all the other work of putting camp together worth it. At camp, we seem to get a lot more mileage out of our bible teachings than on normal meeting nights. Maybe its because they are away from town in the great outdoors, maybe it's because camp regularly fills them with the things of God. For whatever reasons, summer camp is no time to go light on getting into the bible!  The students gobble it up.  

Each year we pick a theme for our nightly bible teachings. Some of our more recent themes were "Making an Impact," "Ephesians Rocks," "Jesus, the Great I Am," and "Discovering God's Will For Your Life." Typically, an adult will teach for 30 minutes bookend between two other student teachings or testimonies.  It's really something seeing students teaching the bible and challenging their fellow students.  

Squad Group:
Every morning after breakfast, each camper has a chance to get alone with the Lord to pray, read the scripture to be taught that night, and answer some questions provided on their Squad notebook. Not every student takes this time seriously, but for those who do, it really makes a difference.

Other Great Things At Camp:

In addition, there are all kinds of fun competitive events such as a nightly memory verse contests and our daily challenges. The summer camp is regularly attended by most of our students and staff. The relationships built this week give memories that last a life time. Take a look at some pictures from a few years ago.

Fundraiser:

We will have a fundraiser for students who need help paying for camp We will have more information about this in the upcoming weeks.

Summer Camp Schedule and Registration Information

Map to Camp Ohio