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.
I found this in another blog and it so moved me, I wanted to share it here. It really hit the nail on the head for me in a way I could share with others in a way that did...
According to a recently conducted (but as yet un-published) PCUSA committee study, 60% of our youth who attended youth group drop out of church (don't go to any ministry in college) when getting to college! That's pretty shocking! What are...
There is an interesting question and one I am posed more often than I would like. It is not dissimilar to "What do you do the other 9 months of the year?" when you tell someone you are a camp...
Green and "green-washing" are becoming mainstream since Gas prices spiked last year. I have been saying for years that the best thing that could happen for our planet is for gas prices to spike. It would lead to smaller cars...