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Why Camp Matters
Camps often serve as a milestone in a person’s life – one that can’t be replaced by anything else. Milestones often don’t change your direction, they help you recognize how far you have gone and how much further your have to go. Maybe more importantly, when you get lost, milestones are a specific point you can [...]
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Why Aren’t Your Students Doing Your Job?
In terms of development and maturity in America, age twenty-six is the new eighteen. The “age of adolescence” is extending further back, and it’s not uncommon to have thirty-year old teenagers floating around aimlessly, living at home, and playing way too many video games. This delay in growing up is damaging to society as a [...]
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Youth Ministry of the Future
We seemed to have settled into an uncomfortable position in youth and young adult ministry. Almost everyone agrees that what we have done in the past no longer works; in fact, we’re not completely sure it really “worked” in the first place. After all, we’ve all heard the alarming statistics of people leaving the [...]
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How can I disciple if I’ve never been discipled?
About a year ago, I was praying and reading and studying through some leadership challenges and content decisions for the upcoming year of ministry for the college ministry I lead. I was in my good introverted routine of waking up early in the morning to be by myself to read, pray, and listen for about [...]
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Looking back at Wayfarer Camp at the Beach
Last week, about 400 students and leaders from all over the country gathered with our team at the Crown Reef resort in Myrtle Beach, S.C., for Wayfarer Camp. It was an amazing week as God once again helped students and leaders set aside false names in their lives so that they can live and go [...]
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Rec Man presents Tusker Tag
By day, David Reichley is the mild-mannered director of Wayfarer Camp. But at camp, David turns into REC MAN, whose curly blond wig has the ability to help any and every camper have fun. Each month, REC MAN will present a new game that you can use in your student ministry. This month Rec Man [...]
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Illustration: Imitations vs. imitation
Life is filled with imitations. I know because I’ve tasted them. I remember vividly as a child when my parents would return from a stewardship conference or come home from a Dave Ramsey class. (OK, it was Larry Burkett at the time.) All kinds of new things would fill our pantries and refrigerators. The budget [...]
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Call to life
If you’ve been around the Wayfarer Blog for a while, you’ve read the stats about how young people are fleeing from the church. One of our biggest purposes on this blog is to begin a discussion with leaders of teenagers and young people in order to begin to turn this stat around. But this is [...]
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Looking back at Wayfarer Camp 2012 Week 1
Last week, students from South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio, and Louisiana gathered for the land camp version of Wayfarer Camp 2012. It was a great week as we all learned together what it means to be God’s namesake and how God takes away the names others try to give us so that He can give [...]
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Illustration: Finger trap
One of my favorite illustrations is the classic finger trap, also known as the Chinese finger trap. Here’s how you can use this illustration to show students how submission, not resistance, is actually the path to freedom. Begin by demonstrating or inviting your students to demonstrate the finger trap. To demonstrate this device, stick your [...]
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