Jr. Youth Camp “Spirit of Faith”
PHILOMATH, OR
20 Aug. 2009
During six days and five nights, youth between the ages of 11 and 14 gathered with their older youth animators to participate in a summer community building activity based on prayer, singing, deepening on spiritual themes, personal reflection and community service. The curriculum was based on new materials recently published by the Ruhi Institute called “Spirit of Faith”. Camping out on the “Siegel ranch” in Wren, just outside Philomath, the 25 youth had daily activities starting with a 6:30am wake-up and prayers at 7am to calisthenics and yoga, breakfast, spiritual dialog, assisting with a children day camp in Philomath with lunch, personal reflection and meditation time, sports, memorization activities, art, science, new songs and chanting prayers, dinner, story telling and lights out at 10pm (well, except for the night walk under the most beautifully clear evening when we saw the Milky Way in all its splendor!).
The sixth and last day ended with a family Bar-B-Q where the youth had a chance to share what they had been doing with their parents, and we all appreciated the amazing joy of the youth and the capacity-building activity that enriched their lives. Truly this was community-building at its best.
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