Post Camp Follow Up

June 28, 2010

Kara Powell
Kara Powell

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Last week I talked with Sam Coleman, a youth worker in our Urban Youth Ministry Certificate Program who works with Young Life.  Sam shared about the great experience he and his team of leaders had with 33 kids at a recent summer camp.

I love how strategic Sam and his team are being with their camp follow-up.  Their goal is that they meet with each of the 33 kids in the first two weeks after camp.  That way they can help each kid make sure that what they learned at camp isn’t completely erased by life back home.  It reminded me of our own FYI resource, Deep Justice Journeys, that has highlighted the importance of meeting with kids after a short-term mission trip.

I love the specificity and immediacy of this goal.  What follow-up are you doing after your camp?

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  • http://www.studentministry.org Tim Schmoyer

    After our missions trip to Haiti last April, we had the entire team over to our house for dinner and together we talked about re-entry into America, how the lessons we learned in Haiti are translating into American life, and where we already feel ourselves slipping again. We each set goals and many of us are still going strong due to the accountability we established that night. Good stuff!

  • http://www.fulleryouthinstitute.org Kara Powell

    That’s great, Tim. I love how you connected with folks again once you got home and set tangible, specific goals and then are holding each other accountable. If I could wave my “Post Event” magic wand, that’s for sure one of the things I would wish for.

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