Christian Camping Leaders Conference

View Statistics from the Christian Camping Leaders Conference The Favorable Year of the Lord, 3-8 Feb. 2008. CCLC participants' testimonies Statistics from past Christian Camping Leaders' Conferences Past CCLC Programs

Basic purposes of the conference:

• An increase in the spiritual vision in camp leadership; enthusiasm and encouragement; sharing of experiences.
• Key camp staff and church pastors (or mission leaders) may attend the conference alongside with their Camp Directors.
• Several different training tracks run in parallel at the conference.

CCLC Participants' Testimonies

Emanuel Sfercoci

(CCI/Romania Executive Director)

It was an honor and pleasure for us to attend the CCI Russia National Conference. It gives us a lot of ideas, encouragement and spiritual growth. Thank you!

Camp workers from Central Asia

Some of the highlights of the conference was participating in the camp exhibition and winning the prize as the most creative camp display, meeting people from different countries, sharing experience and learning from each other, purchasing needed materials and literature for the camps, which we cannot get in our country.

Nazira, camp program leader and board member:
All the seminars I attended were helpful for me. I learned how to generate new ideas so needed for the work of a program leader. I now have more structured understanding of my role at camp and I believe I'll do a better job this summer. I liked many new ideas I learned during the classes and from other people that I can use at camp and also in youth work in my church. I was blessed by meeting many new people and sharing about our country; many people listened carefully and now are willing to pray for our camps, which is very encouraging to me.

Sherzod, camp program leader and board member:
I was finally able to come to this conference and I am very thankful to God for this opportunity. I attended Youth Ministry Course and How to Preach to Teenagers class. I had been working with teenagers and youth for a long time as youth pastor, yet it was very helpful to me to learn how to preach to teenagers in a fun and memorable way. I also attended Raising a Modern Day Knight class, which was a very important topic that I liked very much; now I know how to help teenagers and young boys become real noble knights and Godly men. I will use this program in the church and in camp for sure after adjusting it to our culture. It was good for me to meet and interact with people from different cultures and countries and know they are Christians, learn how they minister to children and youth and how they walk with God.

Venera, camp program leader, board member, accountant:
I attended Basic Directors Course. This coming summer I will take some administrative responsibilities of camp director so it was good to learn about director's job. It was also good to learn what to teach couples during the family camps at the Marriage Ministry seminar as we plan to do family camps this year. The most important learning for me was about camps for special campers as we are planning to run camp for disabled kids. I met a disabled lady who directs a camp for disabled kids; I learned a lot from her experience; she was a real blessing for me.

Sasha, camp program leader:
I really liked to learn how to make a camp newsletter at Making Camp Newsletter seminar. It will be another fun activity for campers to participate in writing articles for the camp newsletter. I also learned the Bible is a very interesting book, not boring at all and I learned how to encourage youth to read it and learn from it. I will use this material in church and in camp. The evening meetings were very interesting for me as a program leader; I collected lots of new ideas and learned more how to lead the evening meetings by watching the MCs. I also learned about decorating stage a lot. I will apply all ideas and knowledge when I work on camp program for this summer.

Tanya, program director:
I will be a program director in coming summer camps. At the Conference I learned a lot about how to make program for summer camps, some new ways of studying Bible with teenagers and youth. I also learned how to decorate the campsite. I learned methods of adjusting programs to own region and also received lots of spiritual encouragement from the leaders of other regions. I am very glad that I was able to be at this Conference.

Past CCLC Programs

2008

• St. Petersburg

2006

• St. Petersburg