[Click here to provide a $50 or $100 scholarship for one of our summer campers.]
This summer Team Olomouc is stepping out boldly and putting on two summer camps for Czech teens, the focus of which will be to learn and practice English and to be exposed to Christian themes and values in a fun and engaging setting: camp!!!
The first camp will take place at a village about an hour away from Olomouc named Jindrichov na Morave, and it will be designed primarily for older teens, namely those in high school. It’s theme will be “Speaking a New Language,” a two-fold title that addresses the fact that, first, students will be speaking a language not native to them, and, second, that they will learn how the the power of words can be harnessed and redirected to communicate radically different things than we are used to, like patience, kindness, mercy, and so on.
The second camp will be a Day Camp that takes place in various places in Olomouc, like a ropes course, a movie theater, a paintball center, and even a nearby lake. This camp will target slightly younger teens - middle school and early high school, and its theme is “Be Free,” a title that celebrates the many freedoms that come from being human, as well as those that come from being a Christian.
Both camps will include times of English study in small groups, short Christian programs and discussion groups to talk about the given theme for each day, and TONS of activities, games, sports, and fun to enhance English skills, demonstrate Christian love, and above all, develop a sense of community where previously there wasn’t. Both camps will be a week long, and for both, groups of American college students will come over and help us lead, teach at, and chaperone the almost one hundred Czech students we expect to be at these camps.
We have tried to offer these camps at a very low cost so that we can attract as many students as possible (roughly $125 for the Away Camp and $75 for the Day Camp), but because many students have other monetary obligations during the summer it is not always easy for them to pull together the funds for such great opportunities for English practice as these. To that end, then, to students applying to the Away Camp we are offering the chance to earn scholarships and defray their camp expenses. Students are already applying and submitting their scholarship applications, and we would love to be able to offer as many scholarships as we can so that these students can come without anything preventing them.
Team Olomouc, then, would like to present you with the opportunity to help these Czech students come to our camps (some students are eligible to come to both). For a one-time donation of $50 or $100 you can ensure that these students have that little bit of extra funding to attend camp and share in the great plans we have for them. This very well may be the first time that these students encounter real, authentic, lived Christianity in people near their age, and with as many challenging, sinful, and heartbreaking situations that we have found in the lives of the teens we have met, we want to provide them every chance to come and participate in a way of life that can give them back the love, acceptance, and purpose they are longing for. So please consider what you can do to help these teens with their camp fees and ensure the success of our summer camps. We thank you very much for your support of our efforts here in the Czech Republic and the Christian movement we are working diligently to create!
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