I thought I would tell everyone about a couple of changes that I am very excited about for the summer of 2009. First of all, if you have seen the summer camp materials or the website, you may have noticed that we have changed the age groupings for the summer camp programs. More specifically we have changed from grade level groupings (i.e. Conqueror camp is for 6-8th grade) to age level groupings (Conqueror camp is now available for campers aged 12-14.) This will hopefully alleviate some situations where friends wanted to be in the same camp, and were the same age, but were in different grades. It should also get rid of the problem where some campers were older than conqueror age (they were 14 and in 9th grade) but were not old enough to be a YLT yet.
We've also added a new program to encourage campers to bring friends that have never been to Camp Dixie before. If a camper brings a new camper to Camp Dixie, the person who invites the new camper will get $10 off their registration fee. If they bring two that's $20 off. (Sorry, the new camper will still have to pay the full fee.) I am secretly hoping (can it be a secret if I just blogged about it?) that some camper out there will take the challenge and try to get free camp out of the deal. That means they would have to invite 18 new friends. Can you imagine how many people could be reached with the love of Jesus if everyone brought 18 friends? Amazing.
Finally, parents and campers in the 12-14 year old age group can look for a new cell phone policy to be in place this coming summer. I haven't worked out the complete details yet, but it looks like we will not have a complete ban on cell phones for this age group next summer. Check your registration confirmation information for the full policy.
Well that's it for now, I hope you are having a great week, and had a wonderful new year. Kim and I managed to head up to Minnesota for a couple of weeks over Christmas, but that's a whole nother post in itself.
See you at camp!
Mac
