Youth Ministry Round Up #182

Greetings Awesome Person,

This is the picture that summarizes our camp this year.

If you missed the journey, you can check out the daily youth camp recap videos I put out or you can listen to the podcast version of those four days.

It's my philosophy that students should share, as soon as they can, what God did for them at camp. A five minute window on a Sunday morning isn't enough for me but, thankfully, I work in a church that allowed our students to take over the whole Wednesday night.

The Sunday before the Wednesday of the service we planned out what the night would look like. They decided that they would be the camp leaders and the church would be the students.

The students played games they played and camp, sang worship they sang at camp and shared their camp testimonies of what God did in their lives. Did I mention they did all this while I was on vacation?

They also had a short message and altar call where students prayed for all who responded.

The last thing they did, an idea that was not on the list but a student came up with in the moment, was take group picture. Why? Because that's what we do at camp.

This picture is the end game of a successful camp, students coming back from a God-experience and sharing it with the rest of the body, making us all stronger.

I hope you had an amazing camp and your students get to share their God moments with the rest of the Body.

Have a great week

Paul

P.S.

If you want to get ready for next summer, check out my Youth Pastors Guide To A Successful Youth Camp.

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