As the time for staff applications approaches, I thought it might be appropriate to reflect on my summers with PASSPORT camps. Often, it is hard to articulate the experiences of a summer. It is a special experience that words sometimes cannot describe. But let me try...
We are excited to announce Rev. Meredith Forssman as the new Editor for d365.org. The Kentucky native holds an impressive resume earning her Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Samford University and a Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology. While at...
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a PASSPORT staffer? We asked PASSPORTchoices Bible Study Leader Samuel Lian to give you the inside scoop on what working PASSPORT is really like. Where are you from and where do you live now? I’m from Hakha, Chin...
Below is a post written by Susan LeGrand, a chaperone who accompanied Yates Baptist Church at PASSPORTmissions at Averett University. This was first published in the Yates Baptist Church Newsletter. On Monday, July 21st, I departed the Yates parking lot in the...
My heart has been heavy with much of the nation this week. The world seems to be coming apart at the seams. Children are being shot and journalists brutally killed. Wars are being fought in the name of religion in the middle east and against an invisible, incurable...
Evaluate: to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise. In August we do lots of Evaluating around the Passport Administrative offices. Camps end in late July, and we usually take a week to breathe for a bit, and then we start reading. We read the youth...
Nearly every summer of Christian camp that I have been involved in has had a theme song. A theme song is a way to help the campers remember something of the spiritual lessons learned at camp through singing. Colleen and I have written most of the Passport theme songs...
Today I received a call to prayer from Dr. Olu Menjay, the president of the Liberia Baptist Missionary & Educational Convention, Inc., asking us to cover Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone in prayer during this time of medical crisis related to the Ebola outbreak...
For the youth teams this is the last week of the summer while the children’s camp has a couple of sessions to go. They probably can’t imagine it has gone by so fast. Some of the weeks have been a blur of lugging rec party equipment back to the pod, setting up for...
The chorus to this year’s Passport Camp Theme song goes like this: Follow, follow the roadWhere you’ve been is not the question,Where it’s going God only knows.Follow, follow the roadThe journey is the answer,And the friends who tag alongFollow the road. Following...
