Camp Guide
Prerequisites:
· Preferably 16 years of age, however, we are able to use Guides for our K-2nd grade camp that are in 8th 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 need to be open to those experiences and join children in them.
Characteristics of a Camp 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, et.
· 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. Counselors have access to phones and internet for an hour each evening.