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Summer Leadership Camp
Adventurous 12-day camps crafted for passionate young leaders (16-18 years of age) wanting to discover God’s truth, discern wisely, and live wholeheartedly.
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Adventure Into Truth
Embark on a transformative journey in the Blue Ridge Mountains where you'll build lasting friendships in the context of community, embark on thrilling adventures like camping, rock climbing, and white water rafting, and receive expert training and certifications in categories from CPR to Wilderness First Aid. Each aspect of the camp is woven together to help you learn to discover truth, discern wisely and take Godly action in the context of real life situations.
Discover
Discover truth, goodness and beauty as you build lifelong friendships with like-minded believers and embark on exciting adventures in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Discern
Discern how to sift through the noise of the world and to act wisely through team building activities, challenging adventures, and training in critical thinking.
Do
As you engage in the worlds of nature and culture, we'll help you integrate the lessons you've learned into a comprehensive strategy for wise, Godly action.
Throughout Your Time, You Will...
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Experience Adventure
Our adventure-based approach to education engages campers of all learning styles. Through hands-on experiences like rock climbing, camping, and whitewater rafting, learning is both exciting and practical. Experiences like this bridge the gap between thinking well and living well. Whereas theoretical ideas sound promising, it's only when we put them into action that they can truly transform our lives.
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Learn in the Classroom
As Christians, it can be incredibly difficult to navigate our noisy technological age. We are always bombarded with more influences and ideas than we can even consciously recognize – today “Influencer” is considered an occupation. This leaves those without a reliable filter of knowing how to think well, are susceptible to a conflicting culture that constantly demands what we ought to think. In the classroom, we guide campers through fundamental lessons in discernment – shaping a lens of Critical Thinking. From a bedrock of God’s truth we learn to ask better questions, blessing our lifelong journey of learning and discerning.
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Grow in Community
With a maximum of 20 campers per session, you will find the camp to be a fun and inviting atmosphere conducive to building lifelong friendships. You’ll be surrounded by leaders and peers pursuing God and His Wisdom for their lives. After twelve days, you’ll be equipped to ask great questions, seek wisdom, and become a servant leader who gives your gifts to the world around you.
Testimonials
What the Campers are Saying...
It has a lot to do with leading yourself well and learning how to do that before going and leading others. It’s not just about having all this head knowledge, they teach you to actually have wisdom and live it out and practice being dependent on the Holy Spirit every day - listening, leaning in, and pressing in on him.
Caroline Manwaring
Discernment has been hard for me, because I’ve been a follower of the crowd and of what other people were doing. But for me, [this camp] has been helping me to be able to critically think through and discern what to say.
Daniel Williams
I’m not an outdoorsy person at all. I was just going to go and get through the camping part and then I’ll be done, and I’ll survive and it’ll be okay. But I actually really enjoyed it a lot, so that was surprising! I think my favorite part was the rock climbing, which I was a little bit nervous about, but it was actually really fun!
Sage Taylor
Just seeing other people with the same kind of hunger that I have - being in a community with other like-minded people, having campfire talks and deep conversations - it’s great.
Ben Schneider
When?
Where?
Black Mountain, NC
The camp will be hosted by Excel College, which is located in the small town of Black Mountain, NC. During their time here, students will spend several days exploring the mountains of Western North Carolina, as well as downtown Black Mountain.
Who?
Rising Juniors & Seniors
This camp is for teens ages 16 - 19 years old who are hungry to become the next generation of young leaders that are equipped to discover, discern, and do.
Cost?
Affordable & Worthwhile
Twelve days for $1,499, the cost covers housing, food, and all adventure expenses.
*Travel to and from the camp not included.
Provide a Scholarship for Young Leaders to Adventure into Truth
We provide need-based scholarships for young leaders who are wanting to attend camp but cannot afford the full cost. Will you join us in preparing the leaders of tomorrow?
PO Box #190
Ridgecrest, NC 28770
admissions@theexcelcollege.com
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