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How To Start a Christian Day Camp

How To Start a Christian Day Camp

Your Step By Step Guide To Starting a Christian Day Camp
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 7/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How To Start a Christian Day Camp

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Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 1h 0m total length

  • Welcome0:15

    discover a step-by-step guide to starting a Christian day camp, presented by How Expert Press and Jane Rada, narrated by Kamei Mein.

  • Introduction5:04

    Discover how a Christian day camp offers quality child care and community outreach through games, crafts, lessons, snacks, and field trips, while engaging teens and families in service and faith.

  • Chapter 1: Assessing the Need4:57

    Assess the need for a Christian day camp by engaging parents, consulting community leaders, and comparing local childcare options across inner-city, suburban, and rural communities.

  • Chapter 2: Getting Started5:41

    Pray, design your day camp, and write down who you will serve, then run a trial week to test planning, advertising, and recruiting with teenagers helping.

  • Chapter 3: Recruiting Help7:26

    Recruit a core, enthusiastic team of teens and adults, set clear expectations, and recognize staff to ensure a fun, safe Christian day camp.

  • Chapter 4: Christian Emphasis8:50

    Combine vacation Bible school with day camp outreach to reach families seeking all-day childcare. Rotate campers through craft, Bible, music, and games stations while teaching Bible lessons and Jesus' love.

  • Chapter 5: Keeping Kids Safe10:22

    Keep kids safe physically and emotionally in a Christian day camp by enforcing background checks, a no one-on-one policy, sign-in/out, lifeguards, and vigilant staff training.

  • Chapter 6: Programming Elements7:26

    Discover how to plan a Christian day camp by organizing campers into age-based groups, assigning counselors, selecting adaptable classes, scheduling field trips, and creating a flexible, enjoyable daily program.

  • Chapter 7: Legal Issues2:18

    Chapter seven's legal issues by consulting legal experts, coordinating insurance coverage, and securing medical release forms, permission slips, and background checks for a safe church day camp.

  • Chapter 8: For the Youth5:42

    Proactively empower youth in a Christian day camp by giving real responsibilities, setting high standards, and mentoring teens who grow into capable leaders who guide campers and staff.

  • Chapter 9: Conclusion2:29

    Shows how a Christian day camp unites adults and youth to offer children a loving, safe space to learn about Jesus, emphasizing outreach, service, safety, and practical guidelines including prayer.

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Description

If you want to learn how to start and run a Christian day camp, then get "How To Start a Christian Day Camp" by Jane Rodda who has real-life experience starting and running Christian day camps for kids.

How to Start a Christian Day Camp by Jane Rodda is an excellent resource for churches who are looking to start a Christian day camp that will meet the needs of youth, children, and parents in their communities. Whether you are looking to expand a Vacation Bible School Program, or start a day camp program from scratch, this guide will suit your needs.

Jane has vast experience in Christian day camp programs, and she brings this experience to the guide. She does not just give general advice. She ties in stories from her own successes and failures in the Christian day camp arena. She helps make the task seem doable, while at the same time understanding the responsibility associated with starting such a program.

This guide examines several different areas of starting a Christian day camp, including:

- The Benefits of a Christian Day Camp

- How to Assess the Needs of a Community

- Getting Started

- Recruiting Help

- How to Keep a Christian Emphasis

- How to Keep Kids Safe

- Legal Issues

- Detailed To Do and Not-To-Do Lists

Jane Rodda strongly feels that churches have an excellent opportunity to reach families through a quality day camp program, and her concise, step-by-step book gives accurate information without overloading you with details.

If you are looking for a way to expand your children’s program to help meet childcare needs within the community in a unique and exciting way, How to Start a Christian Day Camp helps lay out the steps and what you need to do. It is written in such a way that anyone, from a beginning volunteer to a seasoned children’s ministry expert can benefit from reading the guide.

She spent twenty years working in both overnight and day camp programs, and Jane felt she was born to do day camp. This guide will help you to feel that same confidence.

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  • People who are interested in Camping

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