Camp Araminta
where faith takes flight
December 2024
Dear Araminta Family,
We pray you have had a blessed Advent season and are enjoying celebrating the season of Christmas! We also pray that 2024 has been a year full of growth and good experiences.
This letter is for all Araminta leaders and potential leaders for 2025. The vision of Camp Araminta is to provide a meaningful experience of Christian community in order to support those who attend in their walk with Christ when we all return home. We care about not only your experience at camp but also about your spiritual health throughout the year. As we approach the end of 2024, how would you describe your journey/walk with Jesus? Do you have a Christian community where you can worship, find support, and grow in your faith? These are important things for Christian leaders to consider as we prepare for any ministry, camp included!
One of the requirements for leadership at Araminta is that you receive a pastor’s recommendation from someone who sees you on a regular basis and can speak to your spiritual growth. We do this for a few reasons. First and foremost, we care deeply about YOU and what you need in order to grow in your walk with Christ. We also want to make sure that Araminta leaders are spiritually ready to work sacrificially, with maturity, and to be a role model for the campers. We firmly believe that regular fellowship with the body of Christ is essential to spiritual growth.
If you are finding yourself without a church community, please reach out to one of us and we will be glad to help you in finding a place that fits. The new year is the perfect time to begin new practices and patterns, as we all will.
Leadership applications will open in a few months, and we hope to see yours. We love you very much! Happy New Year!
In Christ,
Camp Araminta Vision Team
The Rev’d Cn Christopher Jones
The Venerable Jessica Jones
John Harris
Beth Kirby
Jennifer Lancaster
Camp Araminta is one very active week with ongoing, exciting programs and activities that keep our kids busy from the crack of dawn until the evening. Camp is open to all rising 4th-12th grade students. We are building Christian Community through fellowship, living the Christian ideal from day to day, and learning to hold each other accountable. We also encourage discipleship by teaching youth how to filter the culture around us and discern what we listen to, say, and do (in music, media, and games). We are a ministry dedicated to supporting our youth as well as our fellow Anglicans.
Isaiah 40:31 reminds us that “those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Like birds learning to fly, our faith begins with a leap; we take that step and can feel God’s comfort surround us like the very air we breathe. The name Araminta was chosen because it means lofty in Hebrew.
As Christians, not only do we keep our minds focused on things above (Col 3:2), but we strive to pass on the faith to others in a way that they, too, will take that leap and learn to fly into God’s comfort. Araminta from its English roots means prayer or protection, and our prayer is that Camp Araminta is a place “where faith takes flight” for everyone who comes here.
Creation
I am made and loved by GodGospel
Fall and Redemption,Life of Jesus
Community
Where do I fit in? What are my gifts? Where is my place in the Body of Christ?Holiness
Engaging the culture, Discernment and cultural filters, How to be in the worldMission
Taking the Gospel into the world according to our gifts; Telling others the Good NewsCamp Araminta also Focuses on Fun
