I LOVE Super Summer. It's been around in Mississippi since 1987. I think there's a border dispute between Texas and Oklahoma as to where it began, but in any case it's been an amazing camp in Mississippi since the beginning. I've been here since 1992- missing last year and the 1998.
It's a different kind of "camp". It's not for the entire youth group. There are other camps for that. Super Summer has fairly stringent entrance requirements that results in campers that really want to be here. Year after year Super Summer attracts the best kids in the State- leaders from their respective youth groups.
Students are eligible to attend Super Summer for the first time after their 8th grade year in school. Assuming they continue to meet Super Summer requirements every year, they are eligible to attend for 5 years- progressing to a different "school" every year. The pinnacle is Purple School for 5th year attenders. Each school has a different color- Red, Silver, Orange, Blue, Yellow, Lime, Green, Brown, Gold, White, Purple. We usually go all out. This year in Red School (1st year students from N. Mississippi) we're using hockey's RED WINGS as our theme...we're all decked out in hockey gear and we're using Is. 40:31 as our theme verse. But for all the hype with the colors and songs, etc. It's so much more about our Team Leaders spending time with kids 3 times a day plus during their free time.
Every year over half of the 100+ Team Leaders are Super Summer Alumni. The strength of Super Summer, I've always felt, is the small group time with the Team Leaders. Another element that differentiates Super Summer from most other camps is that our kids are in "class" 3 times a day followed by Small Group meetings and then amazing- AMAZING- corporate worship each evening. This year, there are about 600 student campers.
Chris Thomas, Shannon Slover, Hal Clark and me- some of our Executive Staff for Red School.
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classic. love the pic. :)
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