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Brian Frick is the Associate for Camp and Conferences Ministries with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has been involved in camp and conference ministry since high school. For the past ten years, Brian has served as program director of Johnsonburg Center in New Jersey, Westminster Woods in California, and Heartland Center in Missouri.
Camp and conference ministry compliments and partners with other ministry aspects of our church to foster faith development and reflection. As our communities and our church changes, our ministries need to grow and adapt with creative and emergent programming and leadership to meet new realities.
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Solar and Water...Faithful Action
Here's another beautiful example of putting your Faith into Action! David Gill, Executive Director of Ferncliff in Arkansas shared this on Facebook recently. They are starting a Solar Institute to help mission groups learn how to construct solar powered water purification units. The uses are easily apparent and the trainings serve as a way to support those who are following Jesus' call to care for those in need. He reports that 40 such units are already at work in Haiti! Wow! I bet they could use another 40,000 more but what a great witness to faith to use modern technology to address age old needs.
Ferncliff also hosts a Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) warehouse and was active in getting aid to Haiti and other disasters. I see this new project as dovetailing nicely with that commitment. Not just storing and transporting, but actually training, and implementing aid for those in need.
What are you doing? What are you called to do to care for others? How are you using your camp/conference and retreat center in ways that help the world outside of camp? How can you use your site or partner with your site to serve the missions and ministries of the PC(USA) and the people of the world in general?
The current generation is eager for ways to make a tangible difference in the world around us. We as a church have been blessed by our predecessors with camp and conference centers - classrooms of faith development and re-development. How can we take Faithful Risks to re-vision our centers and make them reach out beyond their acreage to be visible witnesses to Christ's love in the world?
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