Gateway had never had a summer camp when I showed up 16 months ago. We made a lot of changes to create energy and environments for students to lead and experience life change. I want to say that the term branding, although secular, is something to take seriously when you're building a ministry. Getting kids to identify and take personal ownership of their community is a very powerful thing. Facebook has been an incredible way for us to communicate and reach out to all of our kids. Even though we have uprisingnews.com, the reality is that facebook is our website... seriously.
By the time we came to camp we had built a reputation that what we said would happen. So when I told kids we were going to give them the best week of their life we delivered. I was so pleased that our very first summer camp ever ended up taking 117 students and 18 leaders. Two years ago I got to take over 250 Flamingo road HS students to Tennessee and then the very next week our team took over 230 MS kids to Southwind in the Fl. panhandle. That was a record for FRC still waiting to be broken for an off campus camp and because of this first year run at Gateway I truly believe I'll get that chance, Lord willing, to load up that many kids again. I love camp. It was phenomenal. The band Courrier also did a great job of worship. We saw about 30 kids take a step toward Christ through salvation. Here are a few highlight reels.
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