Reformed Youth Ministries: A Traveling Church Camp

I have gone to RYM church camps since I was in fifth grade. I worked for them last summer, and I will go with the youth group from my home church to their camps again this summer. I am excited to get a third perspective, but from the two perspectives I already have, I can say that RYM is pretty amazing.

I don’t really know of another church camp like them. They have a unique model. They have seven full-time staff, and each summer, they recruit one or two camp nurses, a videographer or two (that was my role), a speaker for each camp, youth pastors to teach electives, and about 20 college student interns. This team travels from California, to Colorado, to Texas, to Illinois, to Florida, to Maryland. Coast to coast and everywhere in between, they are winning kids for Christ. They don’t have their own campgrounds anywhere or even an office, but this traveling church camp reaches thousands of kids every summer with the gospel message, discipleship, and fun. Churches attend from so many different states. They pack in a stacked book, resource, and merch table to each camp to equip the kids to make the transition from their “mountain top” church camp experience back into normal life at home.

Not only this, but they also release resources for youth groups to use during the year, host leadership trainings for youth leaders, and produce quality Christian worship music.

Each year, they have a different theme for all the conferences. This year’s theme is farther along. It will focus on sanctification and how Jesus takes us from where we are and puts us on the path of transformation. He will bring us farther along.

This ministry really is awesome and I am so thankful for the impact they have had in my life.