2008 Woodie Awards
Leadership camps promote faith, growth
Rachel Davis, Opinion Editor
Issue date: 8/31/07 Section: News
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This summer, thousands of children from across the country came to ACU for Leadership Camps.
Four of the camps, KidQuest, Learning to Lead, Mpulse and Kadesh, took place on ACU's campus. Another camp, Cross Training, was in the mountains of Sipapu, New Mexico.
"Our summer camps provide age-appropriate curriculum
and experiences, adult role models with strong faith and leadership and a variety of projects integrated with recreation to help campers of all ages grow spiritually and develop life skills," said Dr. Jan Meyer, director of ACU Leadership Camps, in a press release. "In all the camps, the campers are challenged to act out their faith in their everyday life, and they're equipped with the knowledge of how to do it."
The camps had about 1,920 campers this summer, which is a typical number, Meyer said. "We've been at capacity for about four to five years," Meyer said.
Campers had the opportunity to be involved in games and activities geared toward cooperation and team-building skills, small-group discussions about Christianity in everyday life and leadership challenges.
"The mission of ACU Leadership Camps is to inspire Christian commitment and action in the hearts and minds of a generation
of youth to impact the world with the message of God's love and redemption … one camper at a time," Meyer said.
Each camp had a different theme this summer. KidQuest's
theme was based on C.S. ... Lewis' "The Lion, Witch and The Wardrobe" and Learning to Lead's curriculum was based on Jacob's story so the campers could take full advantage of Jacob's Dream.
"[The sculpture] was a definite visual reminder about their week at camp," Meyer said.
Mpulse campers had the opportunity to pray for individual countries and send video messages to those countries. One group of campers took the project one step farther and raised $500 for the country to buy Bibles.
One of the weeks, Brandon Green, a player for the NFL team Seattle Seahawks came and helped with the camps.
"He grew up coming to Kadesh and just loved it," Meyer said. "He'd been wanting to come back so badly, and it finally worked out with his schedule."
The Kadesh campers worked with the theme of identity. On the first day of camp, the campers wore white robes to blend in with everyone else.
"It was to help make the point of 'Who am I?'," Meyer said.
Meyer said there was no way to pick just one outstanding
moment.
"When you get to do what we do, encouraging children and teaching them to spend time in the word and showing
them Christian community, it's a great feeling," Meyer said.
E-mail Davis at: red04a@acu.edu
Four of the camps, KidQuest, Learning to Lead, Mpulse and Kadesh, took place on ACU's campus. Another camp, Cross Training, was in the mountains of Sipapu, New Mexico.
"Our summer camps provide age-appropriate curriculum
and experiences, adult role models with strong faith and leadership and a variety of projects integrated with recreation to help campers of all ages grow spiritually and develop life skills," said Dr. Jan Meyer, director of ACU Leadership Camps, in a press release. "In all the camps, the campers are challenged to act out their faith in their everyday life, and they're equipped with the knowledge of how to do it."
The camps had about 1,920 campers this summer, which is a typical number, Meyer said. "We've been at capacity for about four to five years," Meyer said.
Campers had the opportunity to be involved in games and activities geared toward cooperation and team-building skills, small-group discussions about Christianity in everyday life and leadership challenges.
"The mission of ACU Leadership Camps is to inspire Christian commitment and action in the hearts and minds of a generation
of youth to impact the world with the message of God's love and redemption … one camper at a time," Meyer said.
Each camp had a different theme this summer. KidQuest's
theme was based on C.S. ... Lewis' "The Lion, Witch and The Wardrobe" and Learning to Lead's curriculum was based on Jacob's story so the campers could take full advantage of Jacob's Dream.
"[The sculpture] was a definite visual reminder about their week at camp," Meyer said.
Mpulse campers had the opportunity to pray for individual countries and send video messages to those countries. One group of campers took the project one step farther and raised $500 for the country to buy Bibles.
One of the weeks, Brandon Green, a player for the NFL team Seattle Seahawks came and helped with the camps.
"He grew up coming to Kadesh and just loved it," Meyer said. "He'd been wanting to come back so badly, and it finally worked out with his schedule."
The Kadesh campers worked with the theme of identity. On the first day of camp, the campers wore white robes to blend in with everyone else.
"It was to help make the point of 'Who am I?'," Meyer said.
Meyer said there was no way to pick just one outstanding
moment.
"When you get to do what we do, encouraging children and teaching them to spend time in the word and showing
them Christian community, it's a great feeling," Meyer said.
E-mail Davis at: red04a@acu.edu
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