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Dear Parent:
We are so excited that your child is coming to Camp WorldLight this summer! We have planned some very special activities for her during this, our 64th year of camping. We are committed to providing the very highest quality missions camping program for your daughter. We anticipate that she will leave camp with increased confidence in herself, an enthusiasm and excitement about missions and an unshakable knowledge that there is a very real God who loves her very much.
We have been accredited by the American Camp Association for the past 13 years and are ranked among the top camps in the nation.
As you prepare for your daughter's camping experience, please note the following information:
1. Forms: You should have received the following information from your leader or the person who registered your girls:
All forms must be brought to registration at camp on the Monday of your camp week.
2. Camp Store: Our camp store offers a variety of items for campers to purchase. Campers will give their money to our registration staff, who will then prepare a store "credit card" for them. As campers go to the store each day, the store clerk will mark off the amount of money spent on the camper's card. Campers will also use this card to give to a mission offering. NO money may be kept in cabins. At the end of the week, unspent money will be returned to campers. In order to speed up our registration process, please send store money in an envelope (with camper's name).
Camp Store Items:
Camp T-shirt $10.00
Camp Stuffed Animals $6.00 - $20.00
Many other camp souvenirs $1.00 and up
4. Bunk1: We will again be offering a one-way e-mail service so that you can e-mail your camper at camp. See the enclosed Bunk1 letter for details.
5. Health Check: A health care professional will check your child's eyes, ears, throat and take her temperature upon her arrival at camp. This is to protect the health of all campers.
6. Medications: Please be sure to send ALL medications that your camper might take. Please label all medications with name of medicine, your child’s name, dosage and any special instructions. Do not put medications in a daily pill box. Keep in original container. Do not pre-fill syringes if bringing injectable medication.
7. Special Needs: If your camper has special needs (physically challenged, visually challenged, hearing-impaired, developmentally challenged, uses a catheter, has an ostomy, etc.) please call Delicia Garland TODAY at 1-800-226-8584 extension 3140, so that we can prepare adequately for your camper.
8. Honor Code: In accordance with our accreditation policies, we have a camp honor code to serve as a guideline for camper behavior. This is based on our desire that each camper become the godly young woman that the Father dreamed she would be. Please be sure that you and your camper read, understand and sign our honor code.
9. Policy Reminders: We want to remind you of just a few policies, in accordance with our accreditation requirements and camp philosophy:
a. Check your daughter for lice at least one week before her arrival at camp.
b. If you find a lice problem, treat your daughter using the treatment procedure advised by your physician. (Our camp medical consultant suggests the use of a prescription lice treatment.)
c. Using hot water, wash your child’s clothing, bedding, pillows, etc. according to the prescribed treatment procedure. Be sure to treat hair brushes, combs, barrettes, etc.
d. Re-check your child three days after the initial treatment. If lice, nits or eggs are present re-treat your child, her clothing and her environment.
If a camper should inadvertently arrive at camp with lice, we will treat her and wash her clothing before she enters the camp living areas. Should this occur, in order to get your daughter involved in activity as quickly as possible, we may ask for you or the ladies from your church or group to help treat your camper. This will enable her to join the many exciting activities that we offer at our camp as quickly as possible.
10. Camp Staff: Although the leader from your church will not attend camp, be assured that your daughter is in capable, caring and committed hands. Our camp staff is composed of high school seniors, college students, seminary students and school teachers who have gone through a selective interview process and an intensive training program equipping them to work with campers. We also have a camp nurse who is ready to meet campers' needs at all times. Our staffers love children and youth, and are committed to missions and the Christian lifestyle.
11. Camp Address: Campers look forward to receiving mail. Please be sure your letters are positive and encouraging. Tell your camper that you are sure she is having a good time. Do not write about how homesick she must be or disturbing situations at home. Let this camp week be as positive and happy as possible for your child.
Blue Springs Baptist Conference Center
2650 Lakeshore Drive
Marianna, Florida 32446
Phone: 800-226-8584 ext. 3900
E-mail: bluesprings@flbaptist.org
Web: www.flbaptist.org
Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center
39034 County Road 452
Leesburg, Florida 34788
Phone: 800-226-8584 ext. 8800
E-mail: lakeyale@flbaptist.org
Web: www.lybcc.com
12. Finale: Please plan to come to our camp finale, "Catch the Wave—Focus on the Pacific Rim.” All parents, grandparents, friends and leaders are invited. Campers will showcase music, drama and other skills they have learned throughout the week. The Finale will be held in our youth camp chapel at Blue Springs and at the Raintree Auditorium at the Adult Assembly at Lake Yale from 12:30-2 p.m. on Friday. Your attendance will make this a very meaningful time for your camper.
13. Contacts: We hope this information will help to make your daughter's camp experience the very best that it can be. If you have further questions, please e-mail or call Delicia Garland at our Florida WMU office at dgarland@flbaptist.org or 1-800-226-8584, ext. 3140. We look forward to an exciting camp week with your daughter!
I am looking forward to meeting your daughter. I know that she is going to have a wonderful experience at camp this summer.
14. Please Pray: Would you take a moment now and PRAY for your daughter's camp experiences?
1. Pray that God will prepare your daughter to hear what He has to say to her at camp.
2. Pray for our staff and missionaries as they make preparations for your daughter.
3. Pray especially for your daughter's cabin counselors — the young women who will love and nurture your daughter 24 hours a day during her camp week.
4. Pray for our Thursday night decision service that campers would be sensitive to God's leading.
Thank you for your prayers. Your daughter is special and important to me. Know that I am committed to providing for her a quality missions camping experience that will be life-changing and world-changing. We, at Camp WorldLight, appreciate so much the opportunity to serve you and your camper this summer. Thank you for entrusting her to our care. Know that we value her and count it as a great privilege to be able to be a part of her life. We are changing the world, one light at a time.
Seeking His Heart,
Mrs. Anne M. Wilson
Camp WorldLight Director
Two years ago my eyes were truly opened to the life-changing experience this camp can be
"GA Camp has been the highlight of my daughter’s summers for the past nine years. It would be safe to say that she finds camp to be worth her time and something she wants to be part of. As a camper, Susan was always enamored with her counselors. She would talk about them for months and she kept in contact with some of them for years. Counselors could do no wrong in her eyes. They were role models she looked up to, and confidants she shared her heart with and gleaned wisdom from. She enjoyed the missionaries and loved to tell about their work and would remember them long after she returned from Camp.
"Although she had a lot of fun times, I think the young ladies she had for counselors have had the most impact on her life.
"When I started working with Girls in Action many years ago, I did not have a daughter, so I had no first-hand knowledge of what GA camp was really like.
"However, two years ago, my daughter attended Camp WorldLight for the first time. My eyes were truly opened to the life-changing experience this camp can be. From climbing and sliding down the giant iceberg in the lake, to Vespers service at night and everything in between, Amelia has had a great time. She came home with her heart on fire for missions and reaching those around her.
"At the beginning of camp, each girl receives a specific colored strip of cloth to make a choker. The different colors distinguish the members of each cabin. After camp, Amelia continued to wear hers, to not only remind her of camp, but also to pray for those that did not know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
"One year later, her new camp counselor cut off that choker to give her a new one. She continues to wear her second choker and uses it as a witnessing tool with her friends and others she meets. How I wish I could be so bold in my faith to continuously wear a symbol of who I am, God’s child!" —April Cross,
Thomasville Road Baptist Church
Camp was a positive experience, full of love, that changed her
"On our more than two-hour ride home from camp, my daughter told me about all the activities, the fun, the laughter, the girls, the ‘countries’ they visited, the missionaries, the billion people that didn’t know about Jesus...and the counselors that loved her so much.
"After that first summer, my daughter couldn’t wait to go to camp again next summer. The following summer at camp, she told me that God had spoken to heart and she knew that He had called her to serve Him in the mission field one day. She wanted, more than anything, to share Jesus with others the way she saw them at camp share Jesus with all the girls there.
"Today, my daughter spends every summer as a counselor at Camp WorldLight, loving the girls with the love of Jesus, just the same as she experienced there as a camper so many years ago. The love she feels for the campers is real, her concern for them genuine, and her desire to help them meet Jesus and experience His love is all-consuming. She knows that for her, camp was a positive experience, full of love, that changed her life, and it can do the same for each and every young girl.
"I encourage every mother and grandmother to allow their young girls to experience the benefits found in Camp World Light. Seldom will you find a place where the counselors truly love the girls and care about helping them find out just how special they are to God and how much joy they can have in their lives through the love of Jesus Christ. They will have fun, make new friends, experience new things, and see God’s love in action in a way they will never forget." —Lynette
