How To Develop A Camp Theme That's Compelling—Not Corny

Part 1 of a special series on summer camp and D-Now planning

Feb 06, 2025

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Lets get one thing straight: Most camp themes are corny. If you’ve never been to a D-Now weekend where to youth pastor was wearing a pirate costume, consider yourself lucky.

It’s probably the cringe-related trauma from my childhood that made me resist camp themes for so long. I’d seen too many that felt more like a low-budget VBS than something that actu…

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