I owe a tremendous debt to Christian camps for helping provide a place for me to hear the life-changing Gospel when I was a child and teenager. It was my privilege in the past to spend ten summers working full-time at a Christian camp. Eight of those years were in excellent camping system operated by The Salvation Army, where I had the opportunity to serve as a year-round Camp Director for five years in Minnesota.
This last week of July and early August is when tempers get on edge as the accumulative effect of late nights at camp take their toil. It's a time when Director's remind the staff to keep the energy and enthusiasm level up and give a great experience for those children who happened to have their first and only camp experience scheduled near the end of the season.
In my last Summer with The Salvation Army we had the following Scripture passage written out on our staff t-shirts.
"Because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you." (Deuteronomy 23:14, ESV)
I would like to ask everyone to pray for Christian camps. Pray for the staff, the campers, the financial planning, the risk management, and both physical and spiritual health of all those who will be spending time at camps during any of the remaining days of the Summer. Pray for all Christian camps and pray for any that your church is specifically affiliated with.
For more information on participating or praying for a camp, Christian Camp and Conference Association gives a database of contact information for Christian camps or one may do a Google search for specific indexes of camps associated with specific churches or religious organizations such as the following sites for organization specific camps.
- Independent Baptist Camps
- Presbyterian Church Camps
- Reformed Church in America Camps
- Salvation Army Camps
- United Methodist Church Camps
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