Youth Retreat to Feature Lock-In Activity at Tokens

The Des Moines Presbytery’s Annual Fall Youth Retreat will be held Oct. 29-30, 2010, at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1025 28th St., West Des Moines. Be A Hero: Living Like Jesus is for youth (6th-12th graders), Christian education directors and youth leaders; others by arrangement only. Cost is $30 and includes food, lodging, Tokens Family Fun Center lock-in and t-shirt. Scholarships are available. Please make note on your registration form if you could use one!

Registration and permission/medical treatment forms are available online or contact your church youth leader or pastor. All forms and checks made payable to the Presbytery of Des Moines, must be sent in no later than Oct. 25, to: Dennis Britson, Registrar, Be A Hero: Living Like Jesus – 2010 Fall Youth Retreat, 1110 E. 6th St. #12, Des Moines, IA 50316, (H) 515-282-9139 or (M) 515-988-1360, dnbritson@mchsi.com.

Leaders note: If you are registering a group, or are planning to bring registrations to the retreat, call and let Dennis Britson know the names and t-shirt sizes of participants so food and Be A Hero materials can be ordered.

Sign up Now for the Presbytery’s Summer Camps!

Location for all camps this year is at the Wesley Woods Camp near Indianola, Iowa:

• PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY CAMP (all ages), Cost $300, June 20-26 (3 p.m./10:30 a.m.)
• S.P.L.A.T. (Seek, Play, Learn, Act, Teach, ages 6-9), Cost $187, June 27-29, Aug. 1-3, & Aug. 8-10
• SUMMER FUN CAMP (4th-8th & 9th-12th grades*), Cost $325, July 5-11 (2 p.m./9:30 a.m.)
  *(Cost of attending camp is reduced to$275 for youth leaders – 9th-12th grades.)
• SUMMER FRIENDS CAMP (2nd-3rd grades), Cost $185, July 8-11 (2 p.m./9:30 a.m.)
• SUMMER RETREAT (6th-12th grades), Cost $55, July 10-11 (9 a.m./9:30 a.m.)

For camp descriptions, go online to read or download the Summer Camp Brochure.

Registration materials, volunteer staff and scholarship applications
are available online too.

Questions? Contact Camp Registrar Dennis Britson, 515-282-9139.

Other Presbyterian camp opportunities in Iowa:

• Camp Wyoming
  (supported by John Knox & East Iowa presbyteries)
• Presbyterian Camp on Okoboji
  (supported by Prospect Hill & North Central Iowa presbyteries)