DUBOIS – Five youth from Christ Lutheran Church, DuBois, attended the In-Tents Lutheran Church Camp held by St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Hooversville.
The Rev. Amy Godshall-Milller, pastor at Christ Lutheran, led the group of sixth-graders including: Drew London, Alexis Gibson, Grace Prontock, Ansen Armagost and Addy Armagost. The camp is for grades four to six.
The group spent two overnights and participated in church camp activities with 24 additional youth from the North American Lutheran Church (NALC) mission district.
“Some of our youth renewed friendships from last year’s In-Tents event, while also meeting some new friends,” said Godshall-Miller.
All of them slept in tents provided by the camp and participated in games, stories and craft sessions all related to the camp’s theme, “Put on the Whole Armor of Christ.”
Music and worship were also part of the daily activities. On one of the hot afternoons a game with water balloons helped to cool everyone off while having fun.
“During the two evening camp fires, several of the participating pastors and two NALC seminary professors shared their call stories, what brought them into ministry, with the campers,” said Godshall-Miller.
Godshall-Miller got to spend time with the other NALC pastors and the seminary professors including a 6:30 a.m. Matins service.
“They are very excited about the NALC’s Bonhoeffer House and that the NALC seminary is being discovered by new people,” she explained.
“This was a very positive experience, I got to build new relationships, too.”
The Bonhoeffer House will house four students in efficiency apartments while attending the NALC Seminary in Ambridge.
The seminary currently has around 50 candidates enrolled.
The NALC, formed in 2010, strives to be Christ centered, mission driven, traditionally grounded, and congregationally focused.
The NALC, and similar denominations newly formed in other Protestant traditions, were created due to the recent breakup of large nationwide denominations established over the last 50 years.