CAMP WEEK Prayer

Gracious God, we give you thanks and praise for the beauty of creation. We give you specific thanks for the camps & conference centers we cherish - where we grow in our love for you and one another.

We give thanks for your stalwart servants - courageous & creative camp directors, staff & board members, counselors, nurses, and cooks - who through this last year have built up our centers in so many ways.

Now we ask you to bless these your servants in this season of reopening. Support them in their faith and increase their joy as they proclaim by word, example, and loving care your Good News in Christ.

Finally dear God, pour out your Grace on all campers, that they may know your love meditated through prayer, holy places, inspired programs, and loving people.

All this we ask through your son Jesus Christ who living, dying, and raised to new life in the midst of community and creation, showed us your extravagant and abiding love so that we might have life and have it in abundance.

Amen.

Camp Week 2024 Highlights

A photo of two counselors and a camper with their arms around each other. The photo is set against a teal background with stars all over it. Above the photo, it says, “Camp All-Star.” Below the photo, it says, “Cooper and Zoe - Waycross."

These Camp All-Stars were nominated by the grandma of a camper!!

Cooper and Zoe were so kind and patient with a camper with some special needs. Their kindness made a great impact on this camper and his family.

Camp counselors have a magical ability to make a lasting impression on their campers. They can make campers feel at home, loved, supported, and valued by community. That feeling can stay with a person for the rest of their life.

We love to hear that Cooper and Zoe are counselors like that. 💚

Camp Huston's pool with campers sitting on the edge with their legs in the water. In the pool are two swimmers on make-shift rafts of pool noodles and cardboard, held together by duck tape. They look like they are racing across the pool.

A highlight for Camp Huston was in the final week of camp: we were understaffed for our largest session all summer, and Kate from Barbara C Harris came out with two of her staff to help fill some gaps. They brought fresh insight, programming, and enthusiasm to Camp Huston, and it led to a fantastic final week of camp. Kate and Stephen's Water Relay Extravaganza goes down in Camp Huston history!

A pale green background with light waves on it. At the top of the image is a yellow stipe with the words, “Describe Camp to Someone New.” Below it is the first half answer from the caption.

If you had to describe camp to someone who had never been there before, what would you say?

This person said,
“It is home. It is a place where we can be the person whom God has called us to be. A place where masks are laid aside and we are loved for the most present version of ourselves. And a place to dance, laugh, and love without fear of judging for anything other than what it is, prayer in motion.”
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