February 2025 | 11
Edgewood Baptist Church, Trenton, Kid’s Camp Ohio/Youth Camp Ohio 2024
I wanted to thank you for the SCBO’s support for our 2023 Kid’s Camp season. For various reasons, my follow-up to the 2024 camping season has been slow, but it doesn’t change the fact that the Lord blessed our efforts. 2024 marked the third year of running a week of camp for Southern Baptist churches at a facility just south of Camden, Ohio. After the first two years of hovering around 150 in camp, we added a few new churches and saw our numbers climb by over 40. We effectively sold out. We are looking forward to a new building to add additional capacity. More importantly God used adults pouring into these kids’ lives and God did what God does. Kids began a relation- ship with Jesus for the first time. We saw spiritual growth and spiritual restoration. We were once again reminded why many of us are called to the work of camp ministry. Secondly, we launched a week of youth camp this past sum- mer for those coming out of the sixth grade through twelfth grade, also located at the same facilities, but during the first week of June. It was a humble beginning with just over 40 in camp, but no less impactful. Three churches partnered together to make it go. We were blessed to have Matt Pardi as our Camp Pastor for the week.
Over 190 kids heard the gospel at Kid's Camp Ohio in 2024.
We saw several decisions for Christ, decisions for recommitments, and youth interested in exploring calls to missions. One girl, Kiki, who was bold and stood when Pastor Matt called for a response during an invitation encouraged a couple more to stand, affirming their desire to follow Christ. Kiki recently finished a new Christians class and was baptized. We also had three other youth make public their new faith in Christ. One had attended camp and had taken a spiritual step forward, but was now ready to begin a serious relationship with Christ. We praise God!” –Scott Tweedle, administrative pastor Editor’s Note - SCBO provided grants for the 2024 Kid’s Camp and the 2024 Youth Camp from Evangelism Grant Funds.
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