OVERNIGHT CAMPS 

This session has reached capacity for girls. You can still sign up and be placed on the waitlist. We will fill open positions in the order they were registered.

No Fear!

The world is a very scary place. Violence, war, money issues, viruses, shootings, and a lot of other really scary things seem to happen every day. Lots of people live in constant fear of what might happen next. Some people are so scared, they stop living any kind of normal life. They’re paralyzed by fear and anxiety.

That’s not how any of us should live and it’s certainly not how God wants us to live.

There will always be scary and frightening things in this world. God doesn’t promise to remove them from our lives or to always keep us safe. Instead, God promises to go with us through this scary world, every step of the way! He promises to encourage, strengthen, and guide us through this frightening world every day of our lives. We don’t have to live in fear. We can live in His strength and power.

At First Junior, we’ll learn about those promises and how we can live with confidence, strength and courage in a scary world.

Let’s Go! – finding a gameplan for life

This year’s theme is inspired by the annoyingly popular cheer you hear everywhere, “let’s gooooo.” It’s an encouragement to do your best. It’s a celebration of victory. It’s a rally cry when when you’re team is behind. And it’s a perfect motivation for what Jesus wants His people to do in the world. Using Philppians 4:8-9 as a guide for how to conduct ourselves, we’ll be working together to build a gameplan that will honor God, impact the world, and make you just wanna yell, “let’s gooooooooo!” 

What will we do?

If you’ve never been to High School week at RCC you might be wondering, “what will we do while we’re there?” Well, here’s a snapshot. 

Fun:

Rule no. 1 at High School week is “Camp should be fun!” Of course we hope to motivate our kids to seek a deeper walk with God by the end of the week. But to get there, you can expect a full week of fun games, classic outdoor camp activities, team competitions, and unexpected twists.  Every year our High School students check out on Friday saying, “That was the best week of cam EVER” and this year, will NOT disappoint. 

Learning:

We create 4 distinctly different learning environments each day that will help grow our students in faith and understanding:

• Team Time Bible Study: After breakfast, Students will meet with their team and leaders to work through a scripture each day. It’s a practical tool they can bring home with them and use daily!

• This year we will be reading through through the book of Philippians

• Workshop: Following Bible Study, we’ll have a lesson time taught some of our staff. These shortt classes will be great followup discussion from the previous night’s lesson.

• Vespers: After spending the majority of the day in the “fun” stuff, we re-group in the evening for a group worship time and teaching time. 

• There is a time of worshiping God with our band 

• and hearing a powerful and challenging message from our speaker.

• This year we will spend our evening vespers sessions discovering “The Steps to Walking the Walk.” 

Campfire: Before we turn in for the night, the whole camp gathers one last time for “campfire.” Each night one of our staff members share their testimony of how God has moved in their life. It is powerful for our students to hear from so many of the staff they look up to. Thursday night is “Sr. Night.” We invite our rising Sr. campers who are interested to share their story too.

This session has reached capacity for girls. You can still sign up and be placed on the waitlist. We will fill open positions in the order they were registered.

Fortunate Mistakes

We all make mistakes. We might say something we don’t mean, do something we didn’t intend to do or maybe we just forget something that is important to someone else. Mistakes happen.

And many people, especially young people, feel that their mistakes have to define them.

Did you ever realize though that plenty of people in scripture made mistakes? The list is really long: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abraham, Sarah, Esau, Jacob, Isaac, Rachel… really, it’s a list of almost everyone in the Bible with the notable exception of one, Jesus. And Jesus is strong enough to turn the mistakes we make into powerful reminders of his power and strength in overcoming our weaknesses. Come and join us for an exciting week of camp and be reminded that Jesus defines who we are!