If you have already been to camp this summer, you’ll want to remember this for next summer. If you have yet to go to camp (I leave this coming Sunday!) then it’s not to late to take this extra step!
What’s this extra step?
Get your adult congregation to join you at camp…through prayer.
Here’s the reality, summer camp in youth ministry can either be something that only effects 20% of your church, or it can be something that reaches 100% of your congregation. One small step will get the remaining 80% of your congregation on the summer camp train.
That small step is prayer bracelets.
Each year, I buy some cheap Tyvek wristbands. Like the one’s you get at waterparks. I then write the name of each student and adult going with us to camp on these wristbands (one name per wristband). You will want to make a few more than the average weekly attendance of your church.
Doing this ensures that a handful of adults will be praying for EACH student that is with you at camp! How cool is that?! Ask your pastor if you can make a verbal announcement and ask your congregation to take a wristband and commit to praying for one student each day for the week you are at camp. It’s totally worth the time, and you’ll end of doing it every year!
If you love this idea, be sure to share it so that other Youth Workers can use it also!
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David Hanson: Texas native, Texas Tech Red Raider, M.Div. at Truett Seminary, husband to Ashley, father to Ava & Ben, Student Pastor at The Fellowship in Round Rock, Tx, table tennis (ping-pong) extraordinaire, addicted to coffee. For anything else…you’ll just have to ask.
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