Why YOUR child should attend Project 61 next year:

Dear Parents,

There are many Christian Summer Camps kids attend. There are camps where your kids are white water rafted to their cabin, where they go on three day hikes and are ensured for a fully packaged week of fun. They have access to every extreme sport on land and water. Some summer camps will provide entertainment every waking moment for your child; they will be watched and waited upon from sunrise to sundown and most of the time after. I’m talking about good camps, where counselors seek not just to entertain but to serve Christ and love kids, camps that there is nothing inherently wrong with.

While Project 61 may not have all of the facilities or activities of these camps, I would say the impact it can have on your youth’s heart far exceeds any extreme toy they could ever play with at any camp. I have participated in over 56 weeks of summer camp ministries in the Midwest and on the West Coast and in three different countries. And I have never had a week of camp like Project 61.

If your youth comes to Project 61 they will have the amazing privilege of not only soaking up rich teaching by men who have both loved and lived out the gospel for more than your youth’s life (and maybe yours), but they will have the chance to live it out every morning from 7:00 AM to 12:30 PM. I say 7:00 AM because that is when they have to drag themselves from their beds at Keystone Park and begin preparing for sports camp which starts at 9:00 AM at Comanche Park in North Tulsa, a thirty-minute commute away. They are separated into seven teams going from based on the kids’ age that come to the sports clinic. They meet with these teams every day after the lunch devotions. They discuss how the day went, their opportunities to show love to the kids, and how to handle discipline problems with the children. The campers are also instructed on how they can better help the team function through out the day. The team is responsible for helping the sports camp run, giving the kids opportunities to serve, providing accountability for service, and encouraging the campers as they try to love and live out the gospel.

This year Rex Blankenship gave a sermon each night, preaching out of Romans 15. Brother Rex called them to examine their own relationship with God before they started performing works in the Lord’s name. He explained that the only hope that could be given to the kids that would be at Comanche Park would have to come from God, because He is the God of Hope. Brother Rex said that “God is both the source and the object of hope; He creates hope.” Each night also began and ended with songs of worship where we raised up our voices in praise of the God we were studying and serving. Worship was led by Nate Boone and Chase.
Parents, if you are looking for a camp to send your child to that will point them to the gospel, open up door for discipleship, and provide them with an opportunity to live out the gospel, P61 is your answer.

-Meagan Fowler