Inner City kids, teenagers from four churches, and few adults trying to keep it all running smoothly; triple digit temperatures, bugs, and no air conditioning; what is it I am describing? Free Camp: Columbus, Georgia – July 7-12 in FD Roosevelt State Campground. Children arrived in awe of the campgrounds and kids who wept because their youth leader brought them to such a primitive site and in the heat no less. There were kids who were scared because they were away – way away – from Mom for the first time to kids who were excited about being away from home again. Youth who rode up in a chartered bus to kids who arrived in a van with no air conditioning and needing a quart of oil just to make it another hundred miles. Free Camp is a remarkable tool of evangelism and leadership training ground that crosses social, racial, and economic barriers.
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