We Are Camp is a social networking site for "The National Association of United Church of Canada Camps" which includes all members of the United Church's Camping community. This is your site, a place for you to build relationships with each other, engage in discussions, share ideas and resources, and anything else related to camping in the United Church. It is our hope that the connections you make here will help you in whatever role you fill at camp.

We're looking for a few good volunteers to help with administering this site. If you're interested, please contact camping@united-church.ca.

I know you are very busy right now – but please take just 10 minutes of your time to complete an important online survey. If you have already completed the survey – Thank you!!

Survey on Intercultural Camping  Deadline: May 31, 2012

If you work at a summer camp, you are very busy preparing for the upcoming camping season. But we are asking all camps to take just 10 minutes to complete an important online survey. 

We’re hoping to gather as much information as possible on how camps are facing the changing cultural reality in Canada – to help us strategically plan for our future and support all United Church Camps as they work towards becoming more intercultural. This will also help the national planning committee as they prepare for Connections 2013.

Please complete the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8DYNQ5Y

THANK YOU!!

You are encouraged to make and distribute copies of Who We Are: United Church Theology, Culture, and Traditions [PDF: 8 pp/339 KB]  each summer for staff training.

This booklet helps camp staff and volunteers understand who and what they are representing as an employee at a United Church camp.

NOW Available as a SLIDESHOW! View and download the PDF today!

Faith Formation at Camp introduces the new Guiding Principles for Faith Formation at United Church Camps, and is for all who are actively engaged as  leaders with or at camps. Also available from UCRDstore.

In the redwoods of Northern California, a Presbyterian camp and conference center known primarily as a summer camp for kids has started a new worshiping community. They didn’t set out to create a new worshipping community out of camp alumni and friends, but a monthly Taizé-style prayer service has grown organically out of this ministry in the redwood forest.

“After 30 years, so many of our campers say we are their spiritual home,” says Denton. “Many of them, who are adults now, are not in church, so we felt that we should meet their needs.” Some of the participants are even driving more than two hours to participate in this new community. “People need places to come and be apart, and they identify our camp as holy ground,” Denton says. “So we are offering something that seems like it resonates with their experience and their need for refreshment and renewal.”

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