Hume San Diego Summer Camp
Overview
Hume SD is a seamless blend of Hume Lake and San Diego. Urban missions and beachfront activities take full advantage of the location while powerful corporate worship, compelling teaching and full throttle recreation provide a true camp experience. Enjoy the San Diego beach culture while building relationships!
Dates and Speakers
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Speaker:John Alvarado
John is the director of Reflect Ministries, where he ministers to children and families in poverty. He has also spent time overseas in South America and Papua New Guinea where he has visited over 9 different tribal cultures in the Amazon and Guinean Jungles. John’s desire is to serve God with his entire life and he challenges others to do the same.
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Speaker:Brad Bell
Brad is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, and is currently the Senior Pastor of The Well Community Church in Fresno, California. He is a great communicator that brings the truth of God’s word to motivate you to a heart of worship through the truth. Brad’s passion is for the transformation of lives.
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Speaker:Chuck Bomar
After serving for almost 9 years as pastor of student ministries at Cornerstone in Simi Valley, Ca., Chuck Bomar is founding pastor of Colossae, in Portland Oregon. He’s founder of CollegeLeader (http://www.CollegeLeader.org), author of 99 Thoughts for College-age People, and College Ministry 101 (Zondervan) which is due to publish summer of ‘09. He and his wife Barbara have two daughters, Karis and Hope.
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Speaker:Chris Simning
Born with a nearly imperceptible case of cerebral palsy, Chris Simning was stricken with an extremely rare muscle and nerve disease in the eighth grade. After three years confined to a wheelchair, Chris experienced a miraculous healing. Through his first hand experience with the pain of life, Chris is a walking testimony that God brings healing in the worst circumstances.
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Clear Gospel Message
The gospel isn’t merely one ingredient in our programming mix. It’s the reason for everything we do.
Speakers at Hume SD know teenagers as well as their bibles. They unwrap and animate God’s truth in ways that connect with students.
Students will hear the gospel of Jesus in chapels and talks, then wrestle with it in seminars, breakouts, and all those unscripted moments between youth pastors and students that a Hume SD camping experience delivers.
Dynamic Worship
Indoor worship, outdoor worship, corporate worship, devotional worship.
Hume SD nurtures the attitude of worship from sunrise (over San Diego bay) to sunset (over the pacific ocean). Just step out of your dorm, and you can’t help but acknowledge God here in what has been called the most beautiful spot in San Diego.
Personal quiet times, small-group prayer, our dawn patrol sunrise worship—you'll have plenty of options for exalting the lord. For listening to him, too. (It helps that distractions are few here—no phones or ipods, for instance.)
And our musicians are selected for their giftedness in bringing students into the presence of the lord.
Service Opportunities
As the 9th largest city in the United States, San Diego has many thriving urban and international mission organizations. Through partnerships with these groups, Hume SD provides campers and counselors with safe, supervised opportunities to serve people in immediate, tangible ways.
Whether it’s handing out food and socks to the homeless or packing lunches to be sent into Mexico, students are taken out of their “me-centered” culture and confronted with a world of hunger, loneliness and need.
Campers will learn the power of a pair of socks and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Here is life transformation, for the servants as well as for those in need.
Facilities
Don’t mistake Hume SD for beach camping.
The drop-dead gorgeous campus of Point Loma Nazarene University sits atop the ridge of a peninsula, San Diego bay on one side, the ocean on the other. Walk in just about any direction through this lush, pristinely kept garden campus, and you’ll see water. Lots of water.
And because it’s a university campus, all 93 acres of it is designed for students. Modern dorms, gated grounds, great food services, rec fields, and no end of activities. And did we mention the endless ocean view?
Location
Hume SD is strategically located on the Point Loma Peninsula in beautiful San Diego.
Easy to find and quick to get to, the private college campus and ever-present ocean view removes all the distractions of the city and allows campers (and counselors!) the chance to enjoy God’s creation.
Service opportunities in downtown and beach activities at mission beach are a short bus ride away.
Recreation
For an hour a day, we let kids be kids. We call it recreation.
The high-energy, innovative games at Hume SD give campers an outlet for their energy, while providing counselors a chance to encourage team-building and leadership skills.
Game-winning teams are awarded points throughout the week, and on spirit day themed costumes multiply your points to give your team the cutting edge!
While all campers receive a free “rec” shirt, only the winning team gets the coveted “champion” shirt.
Activities
Free, on-campus diversions include disk golf, basketball, ping-pong, billiards, foosball, volleyball, and a mechanical bull.
Or students can dive into water sports, thanks to our partnership with Ocean Experience, whose certified instructors will have your kids safely surfing, kayaking, or snorkeling.
Of course, all are welcome to bring their own boogie and surf boards, and indulge their wave-riding desires.
We’ll even drive students down to the surf and back again after they’ve had enough of the wind, water, and sun. (If anyone can have enough of those.)
Theme
The theme is a creative and practical link between the fun, entertaining aspects of camp and our presentation of the gospel.
While we believe that the theme is a critical part of the camp experience, it is our desire that by the end of the week it becomes background to the biblical truths taught throughout the week.
The opener, the daily videos, the recreation team names, spirit day and the free camp dvd are some of the programming elements we use to capture campers attention, win their trust, and direct their focus to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Local Church Ministry
Let us agree on one thing: your youth pastor—not us or any other ministry resource provider—knows your youth group best.
We run Hume SD in order to give youth pastors freedom to do what they do best—relate to students, listen, offer guidance, love. To that end, we free them up from the myriad details required for a successful, memorable camping experience—the programming, lodging, meals, recreation, speakers, music. They do enough of that anyway.
So this time, we'll do the footwork while your youth pastors ministers to your students. After all, when Jesus left this planet, he left behind a church, not a camp.
Band
Following the steps of John the Baptist Three Thirty Plan actively pursues the journey of decreasing ("He must increase, I must decrease" John 3:30). Together for over three years, their heart has been consistent: (1) to bring excellence/creativity into all they do, (2) to live lives that are consistent with who they are on-stage and off, (3) and to point others to Christ and deflect any glory off themselves.
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Check them out online at www.myspace.com/330plan
Pricing
Church Group Pricing
Camper $375
Counselor $149
No minimum group size required. Price includes meals, lodging, program, highlight DVD, and recreation T-shirt. Extra activities are available at additional cost or deposit. Camper to counselor ratio of 7 to 1 is requested per gender.
Individual registrations available on a limited basis.
Optional Afternoon Activities Pricing
On Campus
- Air Soft - $5
- Disc Golf - $5 refundable deposit
- Basketball & Volleyball - $5 refundable deposit
- Rec Room - Billiards, Foosball, Ping Pong - Free
Off Campus
- Beach - Free (transportation provided)
- Surfboard Rental - $10 per day
- Boogie Board Rental - $5 per day
- Surfing Lessons - $20 includes instruction, wetsuit & board
- Sea Kayaking - $20 includes guide and all necessary equipment
- Mission Bay Beach Cruiser Tour - $20 includes guide, bicycle & safety equipment
Theme
We live in a self-centered culture with an attitude of entitlement. From the decisions we make to the things we say, our lives reflect an abundance of "me." This "me-centered culture" is in opposition to II Corinthians 5:14-15 which says: "For Christ's love compels us, for we are convinced that one died for all therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again."
This summer we will address the "me-centered culture" of today's youth by challenging students to understand that we were bought with a price by the death of Christ and the life we live belongs to Him. We are called daily to selflessly submit to Christ. We are called to excuse ourselves out of the way so that God gets the glory. This summer we will learn what it means to Excusez-Mwa!?...
