In college, I served five summers with Passport. As a Youth Minister I brought seven groups, and this coming summer marks my 9th summer as a full-time employee with Passport, Inc. I love camp. I love everything about camp. I love that it creates a safe space for our...
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...
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...
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...
I once thought that at your wedding, everything was completed in that moment when you said I do, or when you got the degree, you were done learning, and that the Civil Rights Act ended racism. As Baptists, we were taught that when you walked the aisle to profess...
