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.
These blogs entries, though varied, are intended to spur thought and conversation around the opportunities and challenges before us.
More than the title for the 2010 Triennium (give credit where credit is due, see banner below.) It contains subtle question of "what do we need/do or are called to be in A Time Such As This? Things are changing....
For years, retreating, going away from our daily lives to renew, recharge, and re-enter, have been a regular part of our lives. Our Presbyterian Camp and Conference Centers provide spiritual places to re-encounter our faith, to recharge our souls, and...