Camps are one of the best ways to reach needy young people in our country. The adventure of being in a camp setting is exciting and often opens hearts to God's voice. But what happens to these campers during the other 51 weeks when they are not at camp?

This is our concern, and probably yours too if you're a camp director. This is why camps are also one of the best situations for introducing D&J lessons. When campers return home they will have an ongoing means to feed themselves spiritually, consolidating the good work that was done at camp.

D&J has developed a free, well-rounded 7-10 year program which will help you develop and nurture adults, teens and children year round. Over 16,000 students are currently doing D&J lessons. And 138 camps and related organizations are involved with us at various levels (see the listing of current affiliated camps here.)

You can encourage the ongoing nurture and growth of your campers through your participation in one of two options:

Option #1 - Honoring Camp Cards

Simply by honoring the camp cards which students earn doing D&J lessons you can encourage campers to:

• continue their spiritual development through the David & Jonathan program
• attend your camp for a week-long spiritual impact.

Option #2 - Adopting the D&J Followup Program

By adopting the David & Jonathan program as your camp's followup program you can monitor the progress of your campers. You can also improve your camp's recruiting through use of the program. Some camps choose to give a lesson to each camper who makes a decision, thereby giving the camper the opportunity to grow when they go home.

Please see the camp agreement form that outlines the Camp's role and David & Jonathan'srole in the process of following up and discipling campers. Your signature gives D&J permission to advertise your camp name to our students and assures us that you do indeed intend to use the David & Jonathan program.

(Our Camp Discipleship Director, Jerry Robinson, has moved to a new ministry effective June 2007. He served as our Alberta/BC Executive Director for many years before focussing on Camp Discipleship in the past couple of years and will be greatly missed.

We are looking for the right person to fill this important ministry role here at David & Jonathan. If you are interested, or know someone who might be suitable, please contact the D&J President, Vaughan Durston.)