Deans Online Handbook
- VOUCHER EXAMPLES
- RECOMMENDED PAGES TO BRING TO CAMP
- DEAN CAMPING FORMS
- ADMINISTRATION
- CAMP POLICIES RELATED TO DEANS, COUNSELORS, AND INTERNS
- ABUSE PREVENTION POLICY: ENTRUSTED TO OUR CARE
- A BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT PLAN
- CAMPING CONTACT PERSONS
- CHECKLISTS FOR THE VOLUNTEER CAMP STAFF
- NEW 2006 SAMPLE ITEMS
- ALBRIGHT CAMP
- CRYSTAL SPRINGS CAMP
- LAKE LOUISE CAMP
- LAKE MICHIGAN CAMP
- LAKEVIEW CAMP
- WESLEY WOODS CAMP
- PHILOSOPHY OF CHRISTIAN CAMPING
- CAMP KNOW-IT’S FROM CAMP VETERANS
- PROMOTING YOUR CAMP
- CAMP PROGRAM PLANNING
- SPIRITUAL TERMS AND PHRASES
- EXAMPLES OF CAMP CURRICULA COMPONENTS
- THE DEAN AND COUNSELORS PLAN TOGETHER
INTRODUCTION Top of Page
The purposes of this program handbook include providing guidance to camp deans of the West Michigan Conference. Its scope envelopes basic program helps for training volunteer staff, developing camp programming and establishing opportunities for campers and staff to meet the Holy One while discovering how to be faithful in our complex world. This handbook centers its contents on West Michigan Conference institutional camps, which include the age-specific camps, i.e. Elementary, Middle, Senior High and Adult camps. However, its program ideas are general in nature and adaptable to family and adventure camping.
In the same way that individuals are different from one another, so is each camp different from the others. This handbook is provided to assist volunteer camp leaders in determining how to make their respective camp appropriately programmed for the age group in question. The responsibility of designing a particular daily camp schedule of various activities falls to the particular volunteer camp staff. The intention of this handbook is to make this process less complicated than the procedure may be without it. This handbook is by no means inclusive of everything volunteer camp staffs need to know. Nonetheless, it is a substantial beginning.
An additional reference for camp deans is the Camp Dean Regulations Handbook which outlines regulations for camping established by the State of Michigan, the Board of Christian Camping Policies relevant to our volunteer camp dean responsibilities and the Abuse Prevention Policy: Entrusted to Our Care. In addition to the resources herein, the Board of Christian Camping Program Committee, the Michigan Area Learning Resource Center (MARC), the United Methodist Curric-U-Phone (1-800-251-8591), InfoServ (1-800-251-8410), District Education Committees, age level persons throughout the Conference and Conference Ministry Consultant (to name just a few) are resources for volunteer staffs.
It is no small task to dean a faithful and responsible Christian camp. It is also no small reward to help persons discover what it means to be faithful and loved. The Board of Christian Camping gives thanks for the staff persons of its camps. Your commitment to faithful Christian camping is the fiber of its being.
For the contents of this handbook thanks is offered to the many intended and unintended contributors. Volunteers and employees throughout West Michigan Christian Camping have made contributions through conversations, reports, and evaluations.
Thank you.