An enriching and blessed weekend of learning and connecting
KCO is an annual camp for young people in years 3-6. It is a beautiful opportunity for young hearts from our Synod to gather outside of their churches and build a bigger community for the weekend.
The Pulse team returned feeling encouraged from Kids Camp Out (KCO) in April where we saw 200 people from several churches and communities come together for an enriching and blessed weekend of learning and connecting intentionally for the youngest hearts of our Synod. From across Wagga Wagga, Western Sydney, the Blue Mountains, North Shore, Central Coast and the Capital City converged on Wedderburn Christian Campsite for another year!
KCO is an annual camp for young people in years 3-6. It is a beautiful opportunity for young hearts from our Synod to gather outside of their churches and build a bigger community for the weekend.
Throughout the weekend we invite those in High School to be our junior young leaders, with support and training from our youth facilitator, Ofa, they assist in leading our Children. This weekend allows whole families to participate in a truly inter-generational community. It included games, outdoor movie watching, amazing worship celebrations and opportunities for church groups to develop friendships and discipleship.
For 2024, KCO embarked with the theme of Deep Sea Diving! Deep diving into the sea and exploring about Jesus. Children explored multiple stories of Jesus from His Baptism, his parables, walking on water and ending with deep diving into Gods love for Us! It was great to be led in worship by our speaker, Leisl Holmes, by our awesome KCO band from Turramurra UC. Our Moderator and some other Church Leaders also taught us creative ways of praying for each other, led out in Holy communion and so much more throughout the weekend!
One of our Highlight at Kids Camp Out this year was a decision that the best way to tell the story of the weekend was to see it through the eyes of some of our young attenders. This looked like empowering teens with cameras and equipment to record all their favourite highlights of everything we got up to on the camp. Five young people enthusiastically rose to the challenge! They got involved with this throughout the weekend, capturing vast amounts of highly engaging photos and video.
A Church’s willingness to send kids and teenagers to camps is a great indicator of its investment in its future! Events like this encourage young people to explore the wider church and flourish in their spiritual development as they are immersed in mountain top experiences and core-memory building to support the discipleship of their local church.
We relish the chance to send our young people to a place where we know they will be challenged to grow in God—not just entertained. With so many young people in our world feeling isolated and disconnected, and families feeling strained, we believe experiences like this bring the joy of connecting deeply and personally with their peers in a safe, Christian environment that is set apart to lead them closer to Christ.
Auburn Uniting Church has been a great advocate in getting their young people to Synod wide camps and retreats! Earlier this year they had held their annual car wash fundraiser to help fund them to get to youth and young people’s gatherings in our Synod. It was well supported by the community and they where able to raise five thousand dollars in one day!
We have a send a kid to camp fund that supports churches and families financially bring young people to our camps!
If you wish to donate or support a young heart to get to these events! We would love your help!
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Events like this encourage young people to explore the wider church and flourish in their spiritual development as they are immersed in mountain top experiences and core-memory building to support the discipleship of their local church.
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