Christian Camping Leaders Conference

THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD

February 3-8, 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia

CCLC Syllabus

Camp Director – Program Leader – Youth Ministry Leader – Spiritual Counselor
Special Courses: Camp Newspaper and Men’s Camp – Minor Courses of Your Choice

Conference Program

• Daily Bible Study;
• Four full teaching days;
• Six 25-hour tracks;
• Two special 13-hour courses;
• Seven minor 1,5-hour courses on the arrival day;
• Camp Chronicles Video Salon;
• Inspiration Museum Camp Expo;
• Camp Resources, Audio & Book Fair;
• Camp Creativity International Festival (anyone with vocal, musical & scenic talents is welcome to take part).

Track 1. Camp Director I

Participants: current or future Camp Directors, who have not taken Basic Camp Directors Course at CCI/Russia training events.

Courses:

1. Basic Camp Directors Course (15,5 hours) – Galina Gainulina (Tumen, Russia), Sergey Khokhlovsky (Moscow, Russia), Lidia Gorelova (Vladivostok, Russia). Even if you’re a new camp director, you don't have to make all the costly and painful mistakes of your own in order to learn how to lead a camp. This course presents the foundational principles that will help you systematize what you know about camping ministry and get a broader perspective of camp director's role.
2. Strategic Planning (8 hours) – Dan DeGroat (Texas, USA). Strategic planning is not the same as long-range planning. This seminar will explain the important difference. Learn how to evaluate your present ministry using a tried and proven method of analysis, so you can take advantage of ministry opportunities that will be most fruitful for God's Kingdom.
3. Tent Camping Life and Safety (4 hours) – Sergey Bobkov (Krasnodar, Russia). How to choose a camp site, how to select staff, how to make a program, how to organize food service, how to take care of the safety and many other little secrets of grand tent camp being.

   Plus a minor course on the arrival day (see the list in the bottom of Syllabus)

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Track 2. Camp Director II

Participants: current Camp Directors, who have taken Basic Camp Directors Course at CCI/Russia training events.

Courses:

4. Situational Analysis (6 hours) – Eugene Kokora (Novorossiysk, Russia).
5. Sponsor Relations (9 hours) – Dan Bolin (Texas, USA). Should we seek resources for our ministry? Or we should rather rely on the Bible words “be anxious for nothing”? What does the Bible say about filling the budget of a Christian camp? Where should we look for the sponsors? What can motivate them? What kind of information do they want from us? How often? In what form? How to make former campers or staff our allies? We will look for answers to these and other questions about fundraising at this course.
6. Campers’ Parent Relations (2 hours) – Dan Bolin (Texas, USA). We will talk about relations with the campers’ parents (both Christians and non-Christians) before, during and after the camp. They want to know what exactly we are doing with their children – and they have a right to! And, furthermore, the camp might and should be a blessing for them as well. And it depends on us!
7. Legal Aspects of Camp Management (4 hours) – Vladislav Vovk (Istra, Russia).You will become familiar with the laws affecting your camp and practical tips on how to abide by them. The following aspects will be covered: staff certification, safety rules, housing specifications, government reporting, rental contracts, dealing with Health Department, etc.
8. Reconciliatory Retreat Programs for Church/Mission Leaders (4.5 hours) – Mikhail Kindruk (Moscow, Russia).

Plus a minor course on the arrival day (see the list in the bottom of Syllabus)

Track 3. Program Leader I

Participants: current or future Program Leaders, who have not taken Basic Program Leaders Course at CCI/Russia training events.

Courses:

9. Basic Program Leaders Course (9,5 hours) – Larisa Zhukova (Moscow, Russia), Viktoria Bortko (Riga, Latvia). Program Leader’s success is the result of the successful work of all members of his team. That is why a leader needs both a clear plan of actions and flexibility to change it to deal with problems and difficulties. This course will help each Program Leader to find out what his job is about.
10. Formula of Successful Follow-Up (4 hours) – Olga Netesova (Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan). To cook the dish called Follow-Up properly, you will need to: pulverize your stereotypes; add plenty of creativity; blend patted tips; mix it all carefully and serve ready to use. Add spices to your taste. In the course of instruction and practice both professionals and amateurs will add to their cook books some useful advice and measurements, will learn to use new moulds and try cooking themselves.
11. Camper Age Characteristics (6 hours) – Valentina Fedorova (Moscow, Russia). The Lord gave us a desire to serve the new generation. Your dream is to become a good friend and a leader to the young ones. This dream can’t come true without knowing and understanding camper age characteristics. This course aims to expose to you the world of childhood and adolescence as deeply as possible. That will help you to guide the development of campers’ personalities – and see your dream come true!
12. Methods of Educational Impact (2 hours) – Olga Leikina (St. Petersburg, Russia). How to earn respect and authority between campers from the beginning; how to affect campers positively; why your influence upon them is not always the one you wanted to have. You will be offered a practical work on dealing with problematic educational situations taken from your practice. As a result the children and adolescent relations will be much easier for you, more enjoyable for campers and more effective for everyone.
13. Generating Ideas (4 hours) – Larisa Zhukova (Moscow, Russia), Victoria Bortko (Riga, Latvia). How to keep the fountain of ideas playing

    Plus a minor course on the arrival day (see the list in the bottom of Syllabus)

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Track 4. Program Leader II

Participants: current Program Leaders, who have taken Basic Program Leaders Course at CCI/Russia training events.

Courses:

14. Technologies of Heuristic Education as the Means of Personality Development (13,5 hours) – Anastasia Karetnikova (St. Petersburg, Russia). This course is only for those who have taken Basic Program Leader Course before.
    The record-breaking growth of the quantity of information and precipitate obsolescence of any knowledge require from a modern person such qualities as initiative, ingenuity and ability to make quick and error-free decisions, which is impossible without creativity and independency. These attributes are hardly formed within the traditional school model that transfers “canned” knowledge, so the latter gives way to a new educational model that is based on skills of searching and getting information independently. The Church needs entrepreneurial leaders that are able to think and make decisions. But where they can come from if we make all the decisions for our campers?
15. Creative Methods of Gospel Presentation (8 hours) – Tatiana Omelchuk (Novosibirsk, Russia). We will ponder together over what it means to be a creative person, try to figure out our own stereotypes in education and overcome them with exercises in creativity; discuss such educational tools as role games and simulations as well as different kinds of verbal and plastic art.
16. Underlying Potential Problems in the Life of a Minister (1,5 hours) – Valentina Fedorova (Moscow, Russia).
17. Fulfilling Your Mission (1,5 hours) – Valentina Fedorova (Moscow, Russia).

    Plus a minor course on the arrival day (see the list in the bottom of Syllabus)

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Track 5. Youth Ministry

Participants: youth workers and anyone who is interested in serving young people (including parents!). Your gender, position in camp or church, experience and background are not important.

18. Ministering Young People at Camp and in Church (13,5 hours) – Oksana Khimich (Kiev, Ukraine).
19. The Art of Marvelling: Studying Scripture with Teenagers (8 hours) – Ilya Grits (Moscow, Russia).
20. Evening Chapel at a Youth Camp (4 hours) – Mikhail Lukin (Voronezh, Russia).

    Plus a minor course on the arrival day (see the list in the bottom of Syllabus)

Track 6. Spiritual Counselor

Participants: camp staff that provide spiritual counseling ministry in camp (Speakers, Spiritual Counselors, Camp Directors, Program Leaders, Senior Counselors).

By preliminary registration only. Not more than one representative from a camp.

21. Dependence and Co-dependence (21,5 hours) – Nina Belyakova, Mikhail Logachev, Veronika Zelenskaya (all from Moscow, Russia). By preliminary registration only. Not more than one representative from a camp.
22. Special Camps for Special Campers (4 hours) – Olga Netesova (Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan). How to serve deaf and audio-challenged campers, how to run Christian camp programs in detention centers.

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Special Courses

By preliminary registration only. Not more than one representative from a camp.

23. Camp Newspaper (13,5 hours) – Sergey Ancifirov (Novosibirsk, Russia).

Attention: you need to bring a notebook computer and a flash memory in order to get the most of this course.

23. Code Sign Men’s Camp Program (13,5 hours) – Alexander Kharitonov (St. Petersburg, Russia), Sergey Bobkov (Krasnodar, Russia), Mikhail Pimenov (Moscow, Russia), Roman Mikalausks (Latvia).

Attention: you have to be a man to participate.

Minor Optional Courses

The short courses (1,5 hours) will be conducted on the arrival day. Longer courses (4 hours and more) can be chosen to replace track courses of the same duration.

25. Happy Family Camp Program (8 hours) – Mikhail & Elena Lutsenko (Krasnodar, Russia).
26. Discovering God Creation in Hikes (8 hours) – Ken Hamilton (Colorado, USA).
27. Bringing up a Modern Knight (4 hours) – Dan DeGroat (Texas, USA). Four pillars of authentic manhood. So needed in our time practical and straightforward ideas what it means to be a real man. Necessary for bringing up boys and teenagers; extremely useful for male leaders themselves. All the more: sisters also can attend this course!
28. Night Games (1,5 hours) – Victoria Bortko (Riga, Latvia).
29. The New Kids Have Arrived: SOS? (1,5 hours) – Tatiana Omelchuk (Novosibirsk, Russia).
30. Developing Biblical Thinking (1,5 hours) – Oksana Khimich (Kiev, Ukraine).
31. Freedom of Conscience and News of Religious Legislation in Russia (1,5 hours) – Konstantin Erofeev (St. Petersburg, Russia).
32. Eighteen Reasons to Read and Use Fiction in Camp Ministry (1,5 hours) – Larisa Zhukova (Moscow, Russia).

Camp Chronicles Video Salon and Harvest Creativity Center will also be at your service.