Portraits – Rural, Small, Episcopal, All Saints, TXCamp, Community, andExperiential Learning

CAMP and CONGREGATION

What rings true for your experience about this assessment of camp and discipleship?If camp is incorporated into confirmation ministry, what do these reflections suggest are important to consider?

Have you experienced this tension? How have you dealt with it (positively or negatively)?What are ideas for overcoming this dissonance? Is its reality worth not going to camp? Why or why not?

CAMP as IMMERSION

What happens at camp that cannot happen in a confirmation experience on site at church?Based on this reflection, why would it be important to integrate immersion experiences into confirmation?

Seeing the whole picture, what your most important learnings about camp and immersion learning experiences?

Portraits – ELCA, NJCamp, Community, and Experiential Learning

What strikes you about this setting? Any particular you notice?

What are ways you are intentional about teaching youth how to create community?

How does (might) camp help youth put together the pieces of faith in a way congregational life cannot?What is the benefit of attending camp with confirmation students from other congregations?