2025 Volunteer Retreat
Description
Join us in a retreat especially for Summer Camp Volunteers. You will have a chance to get away from your regular pace and experience camp. For those camps that are being held at Camp Christian this will be a great opportunity for you to become familiar with the property.

You are invited to spend the night on Friday night in a Cabin Cluster, just like most of our campers/counselors will be during the summer. This is a great opportunity to get comfortable in the space before you have campers, especially for MMADDCampOut and Sportscamp. You will be with other volunteers from your camp session, and this will be free time for you to be with each other, unless your director has a plan for you.

Our main event is on Saturday, Rev. Elyse Berry will lead us in a retreat workshop from 10-3pm, with a lunch break. Click here to learn more about her session, Wisdom from Nature and the Night Sky. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uhk2hMbdb4qzfq8ZmUNnfzj1OawLu9Kt/view?usp=sharing


We will have time around her sessions to tour Camp Christian. You are welcome to join us just on Saturday if you are not available on Friday night. This event will NOT include the required yearly staff training. There will be an on-line training schedule in the spring. We plan to announce this date by the retreat.

If you would like to spend the night on Saturday night, you may do so at a fee of $35. Dinner on Saturday night and Breakfast Sunday are on your own.

This retreat is being provided for volunteers so that the highest number of volunteers may attend. Our goal for this retreat is to help facilitate a positive transition to our new locations and next chapter of Outdoor Ministry. Thank you for your dedication to Outdoor Ministries.

Starting this year for every volunteer event, although free to attend, we will be sharing the cost per person to attend. You are invited to donate that any amount to either the 2025 scholarship fund or to the General Outdoor Ministries fund, if you are able. The cost per person for this event, assuming 30 people, is approximately $65.

Schedule:
Friday night – Arrive after 6pm
Saturday
• Breakfast at 8am
• 9am tour of Camp Christian
• 10-12 Rev. Elyse Berry
• 12 noon Lunch
• 1-3pm Rev. Elyse Berry
• 3 pm
o Directors meeting
o Other staff explore more of Camp Christian, share with other staff, or dismissed
Code:
VR25
Location:
Camp Christian
Dates:
2/14/2025 6:00 PM - 2/16/2025 10:00 AM
Ages:
Ages 18 - 0
Cost:
$0.00
Availability:
This session has openings
Registration will end on 2/1/2025.