Summer Camp Registration is OPEN!
Regular Rates Until May 15 (last day to register)

We offer something for every age group.  Our camps are designed for children and youth and their friends from our congregations in Oklahoma.  Though families register their campers individually, we expect that campers are associated with one of our congregations as active members or visitors, so the local congregation is involved in the registration process.  Many of our congregations offer to pay some or all of the camp fees for their campers.  Need help?  The Camp Registration Guidebook explains the process for the adult(s) organizing camp registration and for parents.

Click Here to Download the Registration Guidebook

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April

  • 13: Director/Counselor Training (Digital Meeting via Zoom)

  • 15: Regional Youth Council Applications Due

  • 24: Last Day of Discount Rates for Summer Camp

  • 25: Regular Rates Begin for Summer Camp through May 15

May

  • 1-15: Last 2 Weeks to Register for a Camp

  • 27: Regional Office Closed for Memorial Day

June

  • SUMMER CAMP SEASON!

July

Regional Youth Council

RYC is seeking rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors to apply to serve summer 2024-2025.  Regional Youth Council plans and leads weekend and day retreats for grades 4-12, and helps lead CYF Conference.  Click Here to download the Application packet.

Questions?  Contact Rev. Michael Davison

Where is Michael?

April

April

2: Elders Mtg @ FCC, Cherokee
9: NEA Council via Zoom
11: NWA Clergy Mtg @ University Place Christian Church, Enid
13: Camp Director/Counselor Training @ Crown Heights Christian Church, OKC
14-16: NEA Clergy Retreat @ Postoak Lodge, Tulsa
20: Regional Assembly Business @ FCC, Stroud
21: Worship @ First Christian Church, El Reno
21: Ordination of Anna Holloway @ Disciples First, OKC
24: Disciples Youth Ministry Network via Zoom

Monday Afternoon: Search and Call

Wednesday Morning: Oklahoma Regional Staff Devotion and Meeting via Zoom

Church Camp 2024

Register for Camp

Chi Rho Camp: June 3-7
grades 6-8
Oakridge Camp & Conf Center
Directors: Tara Dew, Joshua Bell, Kelsey Cobbs
Regular Rate: $530

CYF Conference: June 17-22
grades 9-12
Disciples Center @ Camp Tawakoni
Directors: Eula Hledik, Madi Showalter, Bill Hemm
Regular Rate: $530

Discovery Camp: June 21-23
grades 2-3
Camp Christian
Directors: Laura Leu, Lavonna Hopkins, Wendy Singleton
Regular Rate: $210

Junior Camp: June 24-28
grades 4-5
Camp Christian
Directors: Sally Wheeler, Paul Ragle, Rachael Hopkins
Regular Rate: $370

Family Camp: August 31-September 2
Camp Christian
Directors: Michael Davison, Darlene Martinez
Fee: TBA

2023 Church Camp Photos

Chi Rho Camp
CYF Conference
Discovery Camp
Junior Camp

Congregations Participating in Camp This Summer

Disciples Christian Church, Bartlesville
First Christian Church, Chandler
First Christian Church, Cherokee
First Christian Church, Chickasha
First Christian Church, Duncan
First Christian Church, Edmond
Southern Hills Christian Church, Edmond
First Christian Church, El Reno
Central Christian Church, Enid
Christian Church of the Covenant, Enid
First Christian Church, Guthrie
First Christian Church, Luther
First Christian Church, Midwest City
First Christian Church, Norman
Crown Heights Christian Church, Oklahoma City
New Covenant Christian Church, Oklahoma City
Western Oaks Christian Church, Oklahoma City
First Christian Church, Perry
First Christian Church, Stillwater
First Christian Church, Sulphur
First Christian Church, Thomas
Forest Park Christian Church, Tulsa
Harvard Ave Christian Church, Tulsa
First Christian Church, Woodward
First Christian Church, Yukon

Camp 101

Sites Hosting Our Camps

Oakridge Christian Camp
Chi Rho Camp (grades 6-8)
Oakridge is located just west of Anadarko, Ok.

Camp Christain
Discovery Camp (grades 2-3)
Junior Camp (grades 4-5)
Camp Christian is located east of Tulsa near Chouteau, Ok.

Disciples Center at Camp Tawakoni
CYF Conference (grades 9-12)
Camp Tawakoni is located near Augusta, Ks.

Experiences We Offer (usually)

Types of Camp

Outdoor Ministry is a defining characteristic of the missional ministry that the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) offers to children, youth, and adults. Often people will think of Outdoor Ministry as “summer camp” only, but our Region’s Outdoor Ministry includes weekend retreats, traditional residential week long camps and non-traditional week long camps that give children, youth, and adults of all ages the opportunity to play, pray, worship, study, and serve one another and new neighbors. Outdoor Ministry is one way we teach the language of faith, and the practice of Christianity for the Church today and tomorrow.

About the Camp Facilities

In Oklahoma there are three camp facilities that have Disciples roots dating to the early 1950’s. These facilities remain related to Christian Church in Oklahoma. Each one, Camp Christian, Texoma Christian Camp, and Central Oklahoma Camp & Conference Center have their own governing boards that set policies, rental fees, and maintain onsite staff and programs. The Christian Church in Oklahoma has no oversight, nor financial responsibility for these facilities.  Many individual members and congregations provide their time and financial support to one of our Disciples related facilities.

What Happens at Camp?

Great question. The design of our outdoor ministry is based in small groups that provide intimate space for campers to learn how to listen and talk to others. Campers spend time each day with their small group, and within the whole community they participate in art projects, they hear and interpret bible stories, worship together, and of course there are games, singing, sports, and pool time. Chi Rho and CYF campers are also offered workshops that teach life skills.  Some recent workshops have focused on Internet safety, budgeting, photography, car maintenance, first-aid, and relationships.

Designed for children who have completed grades 2-3. This weekend camp introduces children to living in intentional Christian community.

Designed for younger youth who have completed grades 4-5 and lasts a week.

Designed for youth who have completed grades 6-8 and lasts a week.

Designed for youth who have completed grades 9-12 and lasts a week.

This weekend camp is designed for families of all sizes and kinds. This two night-three day experience will introduce families to our Outdoor Ministry (summer camp) program with play, prayer, study, worship, and service for all ages.

Some years during Spring Break we offer a two-night three day trip to the Heifer Ranch for a short program in the Global Challenge.

A study trip to Washington DC and New York City designed for youth in grades 11-12. Accompanied by adults, the youth study a topic relevant to both our culture and faith while taking in the sites and sounds of these two major East Coast cities.

Offered to youth in grades 6-12, Mission Camp (Road Show) is an offshoot of your local mission trip. Some years, we take a group beyond the borders of Oklahoma and some years we visit a town or city in Oklahoma.

FAQs

We publish the summer camp schedule for the upcoming year in September the year before.  In mid-January, you can download the “Camp Registration Guidebook” from this website.  This publication will help you know how to register, what forms are needed, costs, and answer many of your questions.

The summer camp rates are set each January before the coming summer season. The rates cover the cost of the site fee, t-shirt, adult volunteers, liability insurance, lodging, meals, supplies, and program expenses. We offer a “discount rate” for those who register for camp between February and April 24 and a “regular rate” for those who register for camp between April 25 and May 15.

Summer Camp dates are published for the coming year in September.  You can find camp information and all other program ministries for children, youth, and young adults published on this website as well as on the CYYA Ministries Facebook page and the CYYA Intersection.

Are you a subscriber to the CYYA Intersection? This monthly e-News will keep you up to date with opportunities, events, resources, and stories about ministry with Children, Youth, and Young Adults in our Region.

YES! Please contact Michael Davison (mdavison at okdisciples dot org).  He would love to talk with you about adult volunteer experiences at our camps.

Disciples Related Oklahoma Camp Facilities

Central Oklahoma Camp
(Guthrie)
Camp Christian
(Chouteau)
Texoma Christian Camp
(Kingston)
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Questions

Contact:
Rev. Michael Davison
Associate Regional Pastor
Christian Church in Oklahoma

918.899.8940

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A Word from the Commission with Children, Youth & Young Adults

The CYYA offers a variety of opportunities throughout the year for persons ages K-35 years old. CYYA  Ministries in Oklahoma are evolving and growing into a future that includes age appropriate experiences and events beyond the summer months for our diverse age bracket.

We need two things: adult volunteers and funding. Our summer camp directors are always seeking adults to be counselors. As our opportunities expand we will need a variety of adults with different skills to make these opportunities a reality.  The other major need is funding.

Your Gifts Make a Difference!

Your generous gifts to the Disciples Mission Fund or the Annual Fund underwrites the operation of the Region (Regional Office, staff salaries, benefits, and expenses, the Board and Commission work), but it does not provide financial support for the program ministries of the Region: events, retreats, camp, and mission experiences for children, youth, and adults.

Please consider a gift and support one of these experiences:

International Affairs Seminar
Goal $5000

Summer Camp
$10,000

Summer Ministry
Each young person attending a summer ministry experience helps pay for the adult volunteers for that week. This fee is added to the camper fee and is based on the number of campers who attend and the number of adults needed. Funds raised for Summer Ministry could lower the cost for everyone that attends a camp in the future no matter where it may be hosted.  Please consider a gift to support Summer Ministry and help us create funding to support this ongoing program ministry of the Region.  

Are you considering a “legacy gift” to fund a ministry in your congregation or through the Region?  The Oklahoma Disciples Foundation does this kind of work to support ministries throughout the Disciples of Christ in Oklahoma.

Make your check payable to Christian Church in Oklahoma, and note in the memo line what program ministry you are supporting.

Mail To: 301 NW 36th Street / Oklahoma City, OK, 73118. Please indicate IAS, Youth Ministry, Children’s Ministry, Young Adult Ministry, Heifer Week, Mission Camp, or  Summer Ministry in the memo line.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!  Contact Rev. Michael Davison for more information about how you can support these missional ministries.

Visit our homepage to donate Online.
Choose “Youth Ministry” from the dropdown box.
In the “Special Instructions” box type which experience you want to support.

DOC Links

Disciples Young Adult Commission
Kids2Kids Mission
DHM Family & Children’s Ministries
Disciples Volunteering

Week of Compassion
HELM
God@Center
Rethinking Youth Ministry

the Intersection
Disciples Youth Ministry Network
Reach Beyond Mission

Other Links
Seth’s Blog
Gratefulness.org
Light a Candle
Singup Genius
VolunteerSpot.com

Disciples Related Colleges and Universities

Barton College

Bethany College

Chapman University

Columbia College

Culver-Stockton College