Camp Discipleship

Order summer lessons for your campersCamps are one of the best ways to reach needy young people in our country.
The adventure of being in a camp setting is exciting and often opens hearts to God's voice. But what happens to these campers during the other 51 weeks when they are not at camp?

What happens when your campers go home?This is our concern, and probably yours too if you're a camp director. This is why camps are also one of the best situations for introducing D&J lessons. When campers return home they will have an ongoing means to feed themselves spiritually, consolidating the good work that was done at camp.

D&J has developed a free, well-rounded 7–10 year Christian discipleship program which will help you develop and nurture adults, teens and children year round. Over the past 20 years, one million lessons have been completed and close to 7,000 students are currently doing D&J lessons.

And 148 camps and related organizations are involved with us at various levels (see the listing of current affiliated camps here.)

How do you get started?

  1. Order one lesson to mail home after camp to each camper. (See the Agreement Form and lessons order form.)

  2. Include your own letter of encouragement and endorsement.

  3. It's so easy — just a stamp and a lesson

You can also encourage the ongoing nurture and growth of your campers through your participation in one of two options:

Option #1 - Honoring Camp Cards

Simply by honoring the camp cards which students earn doing D&J lessons you can encourage campers to:

  • continue their spiritual development through the David & Jonathan program
  • attend your camp for a week-long spiritual impact.

Option #2 - Adopting the D&J Followup Program

By adopting the David & Jonathan program as your camp's followup program you can monitor the progress of your campers. You can also improve your camp's recruiting through use of the program. Some camps choose to give a lesson to each camper who makes a decision, thereby giving the camper the opportunity to grow when they go home.

Please see the camp agreement form that outlines the Camp's role and David & Jonathan's role in the process of following up and discipling campers. Your signature gives D&J permission to advertise your camp name to our students and assures us that you do indeed intend to use the David & Jonathan program.