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| LEESBURG
— Senior high campers attending this year’s Conference Council on
Ministries Summer Camp program put their backs into a team-building
exercise during a small group session. Nearly 3,800 students
registered for a week of camp during the nine-week long camping
program, which began in early June.
Themed "Phil A. Voyd Expeditions," this year’s camp program is designed to give youth the skills they need "for the expedition that is life," said Mike Standifer, one of the Summer Camp program’s directors. "They need to have the right friends, right guide and right tools…to go out and make disciples of Jesus Christ on their journey." "It puts you on a spiritual high," said Rachel Stamper, a 10th grader and member of First United Methodist Church, Lakeland. "You want to go out and change the world." Stamper said one of the best parts of Summer Camp is the Bible studies. "They deal with how to be closer to God and reach out to people who don’t know God or…don’t know God very well and help them get closer to God and be in that relationship," she said. Top
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