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.
Now that we have lived with and identified the changes that we see and feel currently, how are we accepting them? Throughout history, those who are reactionary, who try to reclaim the “calm and normal” of the past, have been...
God has clearly called us to be Stewards of God's creation. What better classroom to teach that in than our camp and conference centers? When people see that our actions reflect our words, it is easier to replicate them in...
Rapid, deep and impactful - change is all around us. The economy is in disarray. Or maybe a better way to say that is our economy is reflecting the upheaval of change and finding it’s way to a new normal...