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Camp 2023 Update We are excitedly preparing for the 2023 camping season. All camp directors are busy planning wonderful weeks for their campers. Below you will find some information about this year’s theme and the specific camps. If you want to register, visit our registration page. “Get Real: Finding Your True Self in Jesus,” is our theme for the 2023 camp season for all camps with the exception of Created to Be Me. This curriculum comes from Inside Out: Christian Resources for Outdoor Ministries, this is an all-inclusive summer camp curriculum that uses the same daily theme for each age group to provide, a fun, enriching, spiritual, and biblically-based camp experience. There’s a lot of fake out there. In a culture of manicured online profiles, electronically altered images, and relentless deception in advertising, it’s difficult to know who our friends are and whom we can trust. Not to mention how easy it is to buckle under pressure and try to become the images we see. We all must seek our own real identity from a trustworthy source. God is the most trustworthy friend any of us will ever know.  “Get Real” – teaching campers and staff that we are not created in the image of popular culture. We are created in the image of God, who loves us just as we are and asks us to love others in the same way. Camp directors, counselors, and camp staff will each day guide and engage campers as they: EXPLORE scripture — what it says and what it means for them. EXPERIENCE a wide variety of activities that develop the Get Real theme and help campers connect with Bible teachings and Christian community. EXPRESS their growing love of Jesus through worship and song. Created To Be Me (or 8ers camp) is a tightly designed ecumenical camping program focused on spirituality and sexuality. This camp provides campers with factual and spiritual sexuality education that will help them view sexual intimacy as a gift from God intended for loving lifelong committed relationship.  For more information about this camp, please visit the Just Say Know Ministry website.  You can view their camper information and their parent information as well. Why do we have only one camp for 8th graders? As a region, we believe in the mission of Just Say Know Ministry, our partner in this camping experience.  In fact, we believe in it so much that we only one offer opportunity for 8th graders to attend camp.  All the 8th graders under our camping ministries’ care are asked to attend this camp.  While it may seem weird at first, we promise this will be the best week of your life at camp! Why is it longer and slightly more expensive? Because we partner with Just Say Know Ministry, we have to purchase their resources and curriculum to provide this experience.  Also, this camp is one day longer than all our other camps, so we have adjusted for the cost there as well.…