Students attending Centrifuge at Union University in Tennessee enjoy playing games and engaging in group activities. Lifeway will host over 100,000 campers across 57 locations this summer.
Lifeway Christian Resources’ summer camps are in full swing across the nation, investing in kids, students and their churches for a week but making an impact that lasts both for a lifetime and for eternity.
Yellow t-shirts stood out among the sea of humans on Union University’s campus for FUGE Camps. Big, bold letters across the front of the shirts read “Best week ever.” And it truly looked like the best week ever. Student pastors and adult volunteers were tired just looking at the packed schedule of events. But they had shown up because they knew this could be the best week ever in the lives of their students.
“There are meaningful moments at our camps that have an eternal shelf life,” said Ben Mandrell, president and CEO of Lifeway Christian Resources. “Whether it’s the day a kid becomes a Christian, a student releases a burden they’ve been carrying, or a camper or staffer gets clarity on a call to ministry, critical things happen in the lives of people at camp that last far beyond that week.”
Lifeway camps include FUGE Camps (Centrifuge and MFuge), Student Life Camp, CentriKid Camp and Student Life Kids Camp. These four distinct kids and student camps are designed to take students out of their normal routine and place them into an environment focused on life-change through a relationship with Jesus Christ. This summer, Lifeway is hosting over 100,000 students at camps across 57 locations for a total of nearly 200 weeks of camp. After COVID-19 brought camps to a halt in 2020, Lifeway was excited to bring camps back last year and to continue to grow on that foundation this summer.
“[Lifeway camps are] very consistent in that their heart, their soul, their desire is to put on an excellent camp that would honor and glorify the Lord and reach students with the gospel of Jesus Christ,” said Tait Windham, student pastor at Crosspoint Church in Trussville, Ala., whose group was attending FUGE at Union University in Jackson, Tenn. “[My students] always look forward to hearing from the speaker because they’ve built a trust in [Lifeway] to have quality speakers and quality bands here.”
And reaching kids and students with the gospel is what Lifeway camps are all about.
Students enjoy building relationships with other students from across the country while attending Centrifuge at Union University in Tennessee.
Brad Barnett, senior manager of events for Lifeway Students, says he loves hearing stories of life change every year. “God continues to be faithful to show Himself to campers when they take a week of their lives to focus on their relationships with Him,” Barnett said.
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(EDITOR’S NOTE – Marissa Postell is a writer for Lifeway Christian Resources.)
