God and Camp!!

"In the beginning God!!!"

The Creator of the Universe is an awe inspiring God!  Camp provides a great opportunity to disconnect from technology and reconnect with God's wonderful creation.   

HERE is an article in the Baptist Bulletin and below is an  excerpt from the article.

Camp defeats the lack of interaction with God’s creation

Richard Louv, a columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, in his book Last Child in the Woods, calls a lack of involvement with the outdoors “nature-deficit disorder.” It is not a medical term, but it describes the condition of a majority of kids these days. They may know a lot about nature by watching it on TV, but very few ever experience it firsthand. Many parents in their younger days probably built forts, jumped in creeks, or chased rabbits, but kids today typically have not. More and more professionals are concerned that this generation of parents will be the first to outlive their children due to a lack of activity. It appears that fewer and fewer kids these days are personally experiencing the “great outdoors.” Believe it or not, fear contributes to this phenomenon, as parents are overly concerned for the well-being of their children in a troubled society. Camp provides a safe environment that can defeat this trend.

HERE is an article from Kids Ministry 101 from LifeWay entitle "Four Ways to Make Camp a Milestone, Not a Mountaintop."  Here are the four ways with a short summary.

1. Prepare.  Set goals for the week.
2. Go all in.  If you are involved in camp ministry get messy.  If you are sending your kids, listen attentively and ask questions.
3. Follow up.  
4. Disciple.  Ask about what they learned and decisions they made.  Help them live out what they learned.

After the week of camp, July 18 - 23, there will be a post about Tips to Keep Summer Camp Momentum.