StrawberryFields Posted October 2, 2006 Report Posted October 2, 2006 PC, I just noticed that you called it Bible CAMP and I said Bible SCHOOL. I might be thinking of something different. Quote
Palerider Posted October 2, 2006 Report Posted October 2, 2006 Bible School is in the summer time. They have it for a week and ecourage children to attend. When our kids were younger they were always invited to attend by the other children in our neighborhood. They always had alot of fun and enjoyed going. Quote
StrawberryFields Posted October 2, 2006 Report Posted October 2, 2006 Bible School is in the summer time. They have it for a week and ecourage children to attend. When our kids were younger they were always invited to attend by the other children in our neighborhood. They always had alot of fun and enjoyed going.That is what I started to think. I went to Bible School once or twice with one of my friends in the summertime. Quote
Dr T Posted October 2, 2006 Report Posted October 2, 2006 From what I know, there is something called VBS Vacation Bible School for kids (games, crafts, bible study, etc) and there is something known as a Bible school (college/university) where they come from a biblical worldview. Dr. T Quote
Maureen Posted October 2, 2006 Report Posted October 2, 2006 From what I know, there is something called VBS Vacation Bible School for kids (games, crafts, bible study, etc) and there is something known as a Bible school (college/university) where they come from a biblical worldview.When I was a kid we used to go to and call it Daily Vacation Bible School - but for many years now the "Daily" has been dropped. When I and my friends went it usually was for one week, about 3 hours/day. It was fun.M. Quote
shanstress70 Posted October 2, 2006 Report Posted October 2, 2006 I always went to Vacation Bible School in the summer for a week. It consisted of 5 days of crafts, lessons about how much Jesus loves me, playing, etc. This is nothing like what was shown in the documentary. Quote
Dr T Posted October 2, 2006 Report Posted October 2, 2006 Yep-very different from what someone took me to. All I remember from it was the Lords Prayer and a penny festival where I could play two liter bottle bowling. (and there was a cute girl there) Quote
prisonchaplain Posted October 2, 2006 Author Report Posted October 2, 2006 How old will your children be when they go? What kind of timeline is needed to complete Bible School?Our camps are mostly for Jr & Sr. Highers. If there is a kids' camp, it usually for 4-6th graders, I believe. Our congregation doesn't go to kids camps, though.Bible School? You may be referring to Vacation Bible School. It's usually a week-long program, run in the summers. However, it's usually like a day camp, run at church, from 9AM - 1PM. In those the kids can even be 3 & 4. But, again, for the younger kids, it's lots of games, puppets, treats, and a few Bible stories--all surrounding a theme.I believe that Bible School is something I have heard of in my area. Do children 'graduate' from this type of school?All attendees graduate, and there is not test. Quote
StrawberryFields Posted October 3, 2006 Report Posted October 3, 2006 Thank You PC for you replies. :) Quote
prisonchaplain Posted October 3, 2006 Author Report Posted October 3, 2006 I think it teaches children to dislike anyone different from them. I also think it teaches that violence is the answer to our problems. And I can totally see one of these kids committing an abortion clinic bombing eventually!My problem with this answer is you speak of "those camps." Which camps would those be? The one in the documentary. All "fundamentalist" camps? All "evangelical" camps?Maybe my perspective is different because I've experienced them. I've worked Salvation Army (talk about using military language, but ultimately being about community service!), and Assemblies of God camps. I never saw anything taught that would lead a child to develop hatred for the different, or that would encourage violence.Maybe there's an occasional one out there. But far more often, children, some from very difficult home situations, find a life-line. They connect with God, and with a church community. Personally, I credit these camps with helping me through my adolescent years--to stay on a straight and true spiritual course--and not to lose my first love. Quote
shanstress70 Posted October 3, 2006 Report Posted October 3, 2006 My problem with this answer is you speak of "those camps." Which camps would those be? The one in the documentary. All "fundamentalist" camps? All "evangelical" camps?I must have misunderstood... I'm only speaking of the one in the documentary... which is why I thought you said some were snookered by Hollywood. I don't know enough about the others to form an opinion of them, but I know the ones I went to as a child were very positive. Quote
StrawberryFields Posted October 3, 2006 Report Posted October 3, 2006 I hope this (the documentary posted in this thread) is a case of extreme dramatization and taking thing out of context. Still PC, the topic title you chose, does make me wonder just how far they go at these camps." Are You 'on Fire' For Jesus? Ready For Battle?, Does talk of spiritual warfare excite or repulse you? Quote
prisonchaplain Posted October 3, 2006 Author Report Posted October 3, 2006 SF, you make my key point wonderfully. This is the way evangelicals talk--particularly at revival type meetings. We have lots of them. Men's conventions/retreats, women's, youth, kids camp, youth camp, revival meetings, missions conventions (within a congregation), etc. During such times, speakers often call us to: 1. Lay your lives on the line for Jesus 2. Be ready to have the same dedication as the early church apostles 3. Be on fire! 4. Be 'sold out and radical' 5. Be ready to engage in spiritual warfare (it means prayer, mostly) While non-evangelicals may not know our verbage, neither have they been too concerned. However, with this film--and with the producers' choice to emphasize the political aspect (i.e. evangelicals are plotting to take us over, oh my!), suddenly such talk, taken out of context, and overly literally, sounds cultish and dangerous. IMHO, LDS should be especially sensitive to being misrepresented, misquoted, wrongly portrayed. I'm reticient to trust much of any of the 'docu-dramas' Hollywood has put out in the last decade or so. Quote
Latter Days Guy Posted October 5, 2006 Report Posted October 5, 2006 <div class='quotemain'>Hate to say it, but some have been snookered by Hollywood. :-(You can disagree with my opinions on this, but please don't tell me I've been 'snookered' by Hollywood. I know this is a sensationalist documentary, but I still wholeheartedly disagree with what these camps are doing.I think it teaches children to dislike anyone different from them. I also think it teaches that violence is the answer to our problems. And I can totally see one of these kids committing an abortion clinic bombing eventually!Where exactly in the clipsdoes it show them teaching the kids to be violent, or that violence is the answer to problems? And how could you see them bombing abortion clinics? Either you have watched something completely different to me or your reading far to much into what you have seen. The spiritual warefare that I've been involved with and have heard about is exactly what PC has said. The most violent they ever got was walking around a part of town, praying for the Lord to reclaim the territory and banish the demonic presence covering it. I don't personally see a problem with this, but to compare it with say the camps run by some muslim groups who do teach them to hate and to blow up inocent people is completely wrong. I thought that I had had a sheltered childhood Quote
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