Sports camps are now the “in thing” for kids to attend. This also provided experience for kids involved in the production, stage setups and lighting activities at these events. This provided the opportunity for those kids to develop their singing or musical instrument talents. Other trips would involve a kid’s choir group going for a week to entertain school groups and mingling with other kids from different backgrounds. The kids spent time preparing to go on these mission trips by attending weekly meetings where they studied and planned for the upcoming trip. Some churches helped the kids plan outside vacation bible schools in poor economic area of the southeast. Some kids traveled to Louisiana for a week to do relief work for the victims of Katrina. This planned activity benefits the kids as well as the receivers of the services.Ī church camp leader coordinates such activities as raking yards, working in soup kitchens, or helping distribute food.
Kids are encouraged to participate in activities that involve their age group in productive work. Today, summer camps have changed dramatically. On top of that, girls had to wear one piece bathing suits and rubber swim caps! Wearing shorts for girls was forbidden! Separate times were designated for girls to swim and boys to swim. boys and girls could not swim at the same time in the pool. Shocco Springs CampĪt Shocco Springs there were some rules governing swimming that seems strange by today’s standard…. Evening time was for devotions singing or planned play activity. Afternoons were spent swimming or hiking. Mornings in the camp schedule were spent in bible study or crafts. Later, as a teenager I went to camp in the summer on the campus of Judson College in Marion, Alabama and to Ridgecrest, a Baptist Camp in the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee.
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Going to church camp was a happy event for me as a child in Childersburg during the WWII years. These yearly summer camp trips were made to Camp Mac and Shocco Springs located on Cheaha Mountain near the Talladega National Forest. My summer camp experiences seem like yesterday. Pray that they would be lights for Him in this dark world.Summer Camps, Then and Now by Jean Butterworth Pray that God would pour out healing and grace into their lives. Please pray for Carolyn and the other high-schoolers. And then I realized that despite what each one of them had been through, here they were, around a campfire in the dead of night, meeting with God and praising His holy name. I was reminded from Hebrews 4 that the world is ruined by sin and I was left wondering how God could allow these young people to go through so much. Her story, and others that shared struggles with family, sex, drugs, and suicide, tore at my heart. Filled with tears she could say no more and she sat back down. She shared that for seven years she endured emotional abuse from her step-mother, but this week at Bible Camp, God was beginning to work forgiveness in her life. She lived with her father and her step-mother and everyday her father would go to work leaving her home alone with her step-mother. She shared that her parents divorced when she was child and her father had remarried. It was after 11pm when a young lady stood up with tears in her eyes and began her story. The campfire had been going on for over an hour and we’d heard stories from many different campers about life’s struggles and how God was working in them. This is when Carolyn entered my life, and my prayers. The last night of the week, at 10 o clock at night, everyone gathered around a campfire to share about how God’s been working in them during the week.
What am I sure of? She has endured things I’ve never experienced and God was at work in her heart during camp.Įvery morning I spoke for 45 minutes touching on a variety of topics from God’s desire for us to know Him and make Him known to God’s will for our lives to relationships and forgiveness. I’m not sure I could pick her out of a crowd and I’m not even sure of her name. I (Chris) never spoke with Carolyn during the week.
Chris was the Missionary Speaker at Raccoon River Bible Camp in central Iowa during senior high week at the end of July.
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