01 WAKE UP
You wake up and check to see if any of your mates in your Youth Group’s tent village are awake yet… you go to your communal hang out space to find a group of them already buzzing for the day, having a yarn about all that happened yesterday. “Breakfast?” they ask. “100%!”
02 BREAKFAST
You head down the massive food tent - you, your mates, and like a couple hundred extra sleepy eyed youth. You line up for your favourite, weetbix, grab a hot choccy, and find a sunny spot to sit. Fuelled for the day, it’s time to get ready before the Morning Session.
03 MORNING SESSION
Your Youth Group crew heads over to the Main Pavillion and sit in your allocated section. Everyone’s repping their Youth Group crew with merch, flags, chanting… the auditorium fills up and we kick off with praise and worship. Then there’s fun interviews, games and challenges before the session’s speaker gets up to talk.
04 LUNCH & AFTERNOON BREAK
Morning session ends, and you head down to the food tent for lunch. It’s pie day - the best day. You check out the Camp programme to see what’s on this afternoon: sports comp, seminars, mud pit, talent quest, inflatables, workshops. You squeeze the afternoon for all it’s worth, and finish up with some village hangs checking out the EC merch and other stalls.
05 DINNER
Before you know it, dinner time is here! Time to head down to the food tent for nachos. Your youth group crew finds a spot to eat dinner together and catch up before the evening session.
06 EVENING SESSION
Again, epic message from tonight’s speakers, praise and worship was next level, and the heat of the tribal wars rivalry got turned up a few notches.
07 EVENING FREE TIME
There’s heaps of activities on the go tonight, but maybe before you head out of the session you need a little extra time with your leader to debrief. So you head to the quiet space with a few of your mates and your leaders to talk over what God was doing in your hearts in that session.With plenty of time before lights out, you see what’s on tonight: musical guests, soak worship set, talent quest, food trucks at the village.
08 LIGHTS OUT
After another day filled with memories to last a life-time, you’re ready to hit the hay. 12am it’s lights out and sweet dreams about another EC day coming your way…
You may be wondering, “5000 is a lot of teenagers…how do you manage to make sure they eat, drink, sleep, have fun, wear sunblock, and not get lost?”
We might not be able to guarantee that every young person wears sunblock, but we do make sure that every young person is a part of a community where they will be lead and looked after for the duration of camp.
Easter Camp is structured so that Youth Groups come to camp with an established team of familiar leaders to be responsible for the youth they bring to camp. Within a Youth Group team, they will have allocated responsibility of specific youth to each of their leaders. These leaders will hang out with the youth throughout the day, sit with them in sessions, eat meals with them, do activities together, and be the youth’s main point of contact for any pastoral, health and safety, or general needs.
Our Easter Camp grounds are set up like a mini city, where each youth group has their own ‘tent village’. A Youth Group crew will set up all of their tents for their youth and leaders in the same allocated area - many of them decorating their tent village with signs, lights, and a communal hang out space. These allocated tent villages mean that youth are staying with friends and leaders they are familiar with. Youth group pastors and leaders are responsible for making sure their youth are in morning and evening sessions, are eating meals, and are in their tent areas and going to sleep before lights out.
Each morning the youth group pastors and leaders are briefed by the Easter Camp team for the day ahead with key information and health and safety etc.
The Easter Camp team is made up of staff and volunteers who oversee areas such as:Health and Safety, Site Safety, Food, Programming, Worship, Production, Communications, Administration, Specific activities and areas of camp, etc. While all staff and volunteers uphold the Christian values and beliefs of camp, and are there to serve the youth who attend, they are not directly involved in caring for youth. This responsibility is held by the youth leaders and pastors they are familiar with. However, Easter Camp does have an experienced Pastoral Care team who is there to assist with any instances where a youth pastor or leader feels they need assistance in caring for a young person.
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