Helpful Hints for Promoting Summer Camp
Steps to Get Your Campers to Camp
Give Bulletin Blips to the person in charge of the Sunday Bulletin.
Give Newsletter articles to your newsletter editor.
Pick a week (or weeks) for children and youth at your church to attend camp at the same time.
Have the church set a goal of how many campers you want to send to camp this summer.
Choose a Sunday to promote as "Camp Sign-Up Sunday." While "Camp and Conference Emphasis Sunday" for our denomination has passed, there are still worship materials available online at www.pccca.net/resources/2007Camp&ConferenceSundayMaterials.pdf to assist with highlighting the value of camp ministry.
Offer and promote scholarship assistance to children and youth in your congregation and surrounding neighborhoods.
Helpful Hints for Camp Displays
Create displays using pictures of former campers, and any special mementos they might have of their experiences. Former Bethelwoods campers could wear their camp t-shirts to church.
Involve past campers to create posters, collages, banners, etc.
Have past campers write short articles to describe what a week of camp means to them. Display pictures or art work done by these campers.
Make a "thermometer" to show the progress being made toward your goal of camper sign-ups.
Helpful Hints for your "Camp Sign-Up Day"
Have a "Camp Sign-Up Day" on Sunday, or another day if more desirable, to kickoff or give a boost to the registration of campers. You may want to emphasize particular weeks during the summer when groups of campers from your church would attend at the same time.
Use the Bulletin Insert with the Bethelwoods summer schedule. If you are unable to print it, contact the camp office at info@bethelwoods.org or (803) 366-3722 to receive your copy-ready master.
Select one or two enthusiastic campers from past summers to share their experiences at camp with your congregation.
Set up a tent in front of the church with a sign announcing "Camp Sign-up Sunday."
Have a designated camp sign-up table.
Invite a Bethelwoods staff person to visit that day to answer any questions related to the summer program.
We thank you for your continued support of the summer camp ministry of Bethelwoods!
Bethelwoods Camp and Conference Center
922 West Mount Gallant Road
York, South Carolina 29745-7475
Phone: (803) 366-3722 Fax: (803) 366-3565
Email: info@bethelwoods.org
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