Brian Frick is the Associate for Camp and Conferences Ministries with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has been involved in camp and conference ministry since high school. For the past ten years, Brian has served as program director of Johnsonburg Center in New Jersey, Westminster Woods in California, and Heartland Center in Missouri.
Camp and conference ministry compliments and partners with other ministry aspects of our church to foster faith development and reflection. As our communities and our church changes, our ministries need to grow and adapt with creative and emergent programming and leadership to meet new realities.
These blogs entries, though varied, are intended to spur thought and conversation around the opportunities and challenges before us.
Available now - a grant to help groups finance retreats at your center.
The office of Theology and Worship, through a remainder Lilly Grant has small ($1500) grants available to groups formed as Communities of Theological Friendship.
Take a look at the grant by going to:
If you know of groups that might need this funding to use your facility, contact them and see if you can help write the grant. Also, maybe your Presbytery would be willing to provide matching funds?
Hope this can help you enable more groups to utilize PCUSA camp and conference centers. There are a limited number of grants left (about 15?) and they must be used by the end of 2012.