Summer Staff Bonus Episode for 2026

Summer is here! Camp leaders, your staff have arrived, or are arriving soon. This episode is designed specifically for them. We're speaking right to those emerging adult summer staff about to make ministry happen at camp this summer.

On this episode, we'll take a minute to share some of what we know about summer camp staff, and contextualize it for this summer's staff teams. They'll hear some words of encouragement, motivation, connection, and, some critical information about the fundamental things that make camp thrive paired with some practical ways for summer staff to embed these fundamentals into life at camp this summer.

Leadership staff, here are few ideas for how to use this episode as a training and equipping asset for your summer staff:

1. Listen to or watch the episode as a full team in staff training, and discuss in small groups or a whole large group
2. Distribute to staff members and have them listen, jot notes, and discuss learnings and applications over a meal or in a training session.
3. If your staff haven't arrived yet, send to them as a pre-training listen, and create time to discuss during training after they arrive.
4. Whatever the format, context matters, so encourage them to write down the practical action steps given with context to your particular camp's setting and experience and to share those ideas with the staff team.

Mostly, summer staff members, on behalf of all the campers and families you are about to serve, we hope and pray that you hear confident encouragement and deep gratitude for what you've said yes to. Thank you.