Who Can Be a Camp Guide?
Prerequisites:
Preferably 16 years of age, however, we are able to use guides-in-training for our K-2nd grade camp that are in 7th grade or above.
Recommended by pastor or teacher in writing (emails allowed). We are looking for dependability, flexibility, and responsibility… youth who will keep this commitment once made.
In good health, this is a VERY physical job, requiring lots of movement and not much down time.
Positive attitude, finding the bright side and doing all things with a positive outlook.
Completed application.
WE DO NOT REQUIRE A STATEMENT OF FAITH, only a heart of love and an open spirit. However, Children’s Camp is a faith based experience. We share Scripture stories, sing spiritual songs, and pray together. Guides-in-training need to be open to those experiences and join children in them.
Characteristics of a Guide
Empathetic toward peers, young children, animals, and the good earth.
Energetic – taking initiative to care for campers, themselves, and the camp.
Creative – willing to share ideas, do new things and help others do the same.
Experienced – has spent time working as part of a team with adults, peers, and young children.
Joyful – We love silly! Being a little wackadoodle helps, but you don’t have to be the class clown.
Tasks Involved:
Hanging with two or three children from sunrise to bedtime.
Listening to them, guiding them, helping them, participating in ALL activities with them—all with a good spirit.
Camp Maintenance – helping clean up, get fires started, finding lost balls in the woods, etc.
Honoring the full life of camp –adults, children, and the facilities.
Treating people with respect, even if you don’t understand them or like what they say.
Staying Unplugged! There are no electronic devices at camp! Designated adults take photos. Guides only have access to phones and internet for an hour each evening.