The best way to Spend your Summer
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It is a fact that our staff and volunteers have the greatest impact on our summer camps. They are the direct connection to our campers.
Join a community with a vision. One that will encourage you in your faith and build you up in your walk with Jesus. You’ll make great friends and gather new skills. Most of all, you’ll be a significant person in the lives of young children.
PAID STAFF
In this world, it is rare to find a working experience quite like working in a team at summer camp. You are dropped into a 2 month blitz of excitement, stress, tears, and joy all rolled up into one unforgettable experience. Sr. Staff teach kids about Jesus, and build into each other’s faith. They learn new skills, and how to lead under pressure. It’s also 2 months that will look amazing on your resume!
Work directly with the kids, or help out in the background. Read through the options and find which positions best fit with your passions and abilities.
NOTE: Working at Camp Nakamun is a ministry. It will take a lot of focus, energy, and flexibility to fill a role with our summer team. Please be advised that ministry is really hard work, but also very rewarding in that it is a beautiful way to share God’s love with the world.
What To Expect
For Sr. Staff, a summer at Camp Nakamun goes by so fast. Each day, your mission is to give the kids a lasting experience. Energy levels run low. Eating healthy, sleeping when you can, and digging in to the community are essential ingredients of a successful summer. You will be stretched. But that’s a good thing because it will make you rely on your team and on Jesus to be your strength.
This job is for people who love kids! If you don’t like kids, maybe go find something else to do. You can be disorganized, clumsy, and you can be awful at canoeing… but if you love kids, we’re pretty sure camp can help you sort that other stuff out.
What Nakamun Expects
We expect you to be on time, to be present and engaged in your training and your role. We expect you to use this time to work on yourself. You have an opportunity to grow in your faith and your walk with Jesus. We desire to put people and programs in place to encourage you in this. Yet, it is ultimately up to you to decide to work on your heart as you work here with us at camp.
Being a member of the staff means you are willing to submit to the authority of the leadership of the camp. This includes the Executive Director and Camp Board. If they need to approach you about an issue they will and may even ask you to change what you are doing or how you are presenting yourself.
When you come to camp you are in a position to influence kids as young as six years old. This is the environment for love and gentleness (Phil. 4:5) to reign in every aspect of our lives including our appearance. For some of you servant-hood may mean sacrifice in this area. Be blessed as you seek to make the right choices.
Our desire as staff at Camp Nakamun is to glorify Christ in all we do. This desire, to let Christ dwell in us, and the fact that we are in a position of influence over younger people, impacts how we live our lives.
We base our expectations of our staff on what we read in Colossians 3: 1-7 (the Message translation)
Although we are committed followers of Christ, we still sin and are not perfect. However, it is important that our attitude and approach to how we live, what we choose to wear, the music we listen to, etc, reflect our desire to be a person of influence. It is important that the appearance and behavior of the staff does not reflect poorly on the image of the camp. Please be a great ambassador of Nakamun!
Camp Nakamun is owned by the Western Canadian District of the Christian & Missionary Alliance. In working at Camp Nakamun for the summer, you must also agree to come under the C & MA Core Values and Statement of Faith. Please read them through here.