major responsibility is to work with the small group of campers assigned to him. He works and plays with them, but his major task is to lead them to Christ and to assist them in living the Christian life. The speaker’s role is that of Bible teacher and spiritual leader — the one who challenges hearts and lives. The speaker and the counselors should work together as a team to effect, with the help of the Holy Spirit, the greatest impact on a young life. Q. I have been asked to be a courir selor at camp. I am thrilled with the opportunity and what can I do to prepare myself? A. There are several suggestions that can be made: a. Lea/m about campers, especially the age group you will be coun seling. Get a book on this from your library or local book store. b. Study the Word. Start early to prepare your cabin devotions and any other messages you may be called on to bring. c. Learn about counseling. A good manual to help you is “ How to Be a Camp Counselor,” pub lished by Scripture Press. d. Learn about the camp. Take a trip to the camp if possible be fore your time to serve comes. Look around the site, the neigh boring area, etc. Determine the possibilities for activities, such as hikes, nature study, and or ganized recreation. Q. Hew can camping be geared into our church program? A. A logical first step, in integrat ing camping into a church’s overall program, is to appoint a camp co ordinator (or camp committee chair man) to the board of Christian edu cation. Further, be a camp enthusiast. Share your enthusiasm and convic tions about camp. From time to time, point out that camp presents excit ing opportunities for winning, chal lenging, and training young people for Christ — in a way that no other church activity can! Be sure that each year you have adults that serve as counselors at Camp, as well as many of your youth, boys and girls attending camp. This will gear any church into a Camping program. *Rev. Larson is Western Regional Di rector for Scripture Press. This fea ture is heard weekly over KBBI, Los Angeles, and KGER, Long Beach. Other panel members are Rev. Ray Syrstad and Rev. Paul Dirks.
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Summer Christian Camping Q. Should your church get involved in Christian camping? A. The following quotations, gleaned from camp questionnaires returned by evangelical leaders, cite good rea sons for seeing that your church is active in Christian camping. “ Camp is the spiritual starting- point for many unreachable teens.” “We need camps! Kids are reached at camp when they could never be reached in church.” “ It’s through our summer camp ing program that most of our young people are contacted for full-time Christian service. We need more church leaders. Camp is the best place to challenge and train them.” In other words, camping gives un usual round-the-clock opportunities for winning youth to Christ, help ing them grow spiritually, and chal lenging them to serve the Lord. Q. What are the goals of Christian camping ? A. Some camp directors operate with vague goals, indefinite objectives. They are like an archer who hopes to score a bull’s-eye but does not bother to take careful aim. His chances of hitting the mark are re mote. Most Christian camp leaders keep the most important goals, evangelism and Christian nurture, uppermost. But some forget that their campers’ main goal is somewhat different— to have fun. In a successful camp these three goals, plus others, are attained. Q. I hear so much about “ counselor- centered" camp programs. What is this and what is the role of the speaker at such a camp? A. This is a very pertinent question and one about which every camp di rector and committee needs to make a decision. A counselor-centered pro gram is one in which the counselor is more than a chaperone. He assists in every phase of camp life, but his
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