 Camping
for Adults and Families ― 2009Work Weekend • Mountain Weekend 1 • Continuing Education Retreat • Adult Backpacking Mountain Weekend 2 • Housing Options • Anabaino Youth Ministry Retreat • Developmentally Disabled Adults
Memorial Day Work Weekend •
May 22-25, 2009. Help to prepare the camp for
its summer season, during this "long weekend" that includes
Memorial Day. We provide you with food, lodging, fellowship, work, and
worship
Costs: No Charge for the Work Weekend. Add $75 per room for those requesting Living Center housing (each of the six rooms has a queen bed and two singles.) Register. ========================================================= Session
for Developmentally Disabled Adults
•
June 17-20, 2009.
For adults who are at least 18 years
old and whose disability is primarily connected with mental development,
Christikon's camp for the developmentally disabled offers
Cost: $135 per disabled adult. For more detailed information about the retreat, and registration information, click here. ============================================================================ Anabaino Youth Ministry Retreat: A Visioning Event for All Who Work with Youth in the Church • June 26-28, 2009. Throughout his ministry, Jesus would “go up” for prayer and meditation, for rest and renewal, for teaching and ministry. You’re invited to “go up” into the mountains of south-central Montana, joining with others at Christikon to reflect on ministry with young people in your congregation, to find ideas and direction, to experience renewal and connection with those who are your colleagues in ministry in other congregations. Meals are served from Friday supper through and early Sunday breakfast. Cost: $50 per adult. For more detailed information about the retreat, and registration information, click here. =========================================================================== Mountain Weekend 1 •
July 24-26, 2009.
Dr. Padgett's presentations: The Word of God for a Scientific World: Reading the Bible in an Age of Science. Sessions with adults will explore the reason we evangelical believers should pay attention to modern science, why and how we still confess Scripture to be the word of God, and will give examples of how we can rightly understand key biblical texts to speak to us today. Schedule Costs: $70 per adult, $35 per child 6-12. No charge for children under 6. Add $50 per room for those requesting Living Center housing (each of the six rooms has a queen bed and two singles.) Register. =========================================================================== Continuing Education Retreat • July 27-30, 2009. Running from Monday supper through Thursday lunch, this retreat is designed particularly for rostered ministers, interested lay people, and their families. It is sponsored jointly with the ELCA Montana Synod’s continuing education program, Northern Rockies Institute of Theology (NRIT).
Dr. Padgett’s presentations: Does Christ Submit to the Church? Leadership and Submission in Following Jesus Today
1) The Bible, Submission and the Ethics of Gender Roles: Putting Christ
at the Center.
This lecture sets the stage with a presentation of gospel-centered
biblical hermeneutics, the ethics of roles, and an overview of the debate
about “complementarian” theology.
Costs: $130 per adult; $65 per child 6-12, plus $130 per family NRIT fee. No charge for children under 6. Add $75 per room for those requesting Living Center housing (each of the six rooms has a queen bed and two singles.) Register ============================================================== Mountain Weekend
2 •
July 31-August 2, 2009.
Enjoy some time in the majesty of Montana’s
Dr.
Throntveit's presentations:
Genesis: Plan, Peril, and Promise
Genesis, the first book of the Bible, already provides us with a blueprint
of God's continuing relationship with us. These three sessions seek to
clarify that relationship by examining Genesis 1-2 the creation, Genesis
3-11 the fall, Genesis 12-50 the covenant with Abraham and Sarah, under
the categories of plan, peril, and promise. Costs: $70 per adult, $35 per child 6-12. No charge for children under 6. Add $50 per room for those requesting Living Center housing (each of the six rooms has a queen bed and two singles.) Register. ========================================================================= Adult Backpacking • July 23-27 (or other dates as arranged). Christikon can host groups of adults (couples, young adults, one-gender groups, older adults, etc.) in the magnificent mountain wilderness surrounding the camp. Your group must have at least six people, and can have no more than twelve. Two Christikon staff go with each group as leaders. Your group arrives the afternoon of July 23, stays overnight at camp for orientation and packing-out, heads into the wilderness the next morning, stays out in the back country the nights of July 24-26, and returns to Christikon the afternoon of July 27. Your route can be tailored to your group. You may do a three-night back country loop, or you may arrange for setting up a base camp from which you day-hike (so you carry packs only the first and last days). Our staff people can lead the program; or they can work with you in shared program leadership for Bible study, Quiet Time and worship. It would be possible for some of the group to remain on-site during the adult backpack for Mountain Weekend 1 (July 24-26), and/or to stay on for the Continuing Education Retreat (July 27-30), or even remain through Mountain Weekend 2 (July 31-August 2). See descriptions of those sessions above. It's also possible to arrange for a week-long adult backpack during one of the Mountaineers sessions for youth (July 6-12, July 14-20, July 30-August 5). Cost: $180 per adult, or as arranged for varying durations. Contact the camp office to make arrangements. ========================================================================= Housing options during family/adult camp sessions. For more information on housing possibilities, click here. Questions? Contact Us. |
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opportunities―all without cost (except a charge of $60 per room
for those requesting housing in the Living Center; each of those six rooms
has a queen bed and two singles). We ask you to bring
with you a willing spirit, hand tools for various maintenance, repair,
sewing, and cleaning projects, and plenty of elbow grease. Meals are
served from Friday supper through Monday lunch.
opportunities
for enjoyment of the mountain setting and growth in caring relationships.
Included are hiking, group recreation, crafts, work projects, shared
responsibilities, sharing of talents, music, etc. Christikon staff people
reside in the cabins with the campers, and provide program leadership.
with
adults; Christikon summer staff
will join in offering options for children during
the presentations, and a variety of additional program experiences for
everyone. Meals are served from Friday supper through Sunday lunch.
Additional special meal arrangements for July 23-24 or for July 26-27 can
be made with those who plan to participate also in the following
Continuing Education Retreat, or who have a family member involved in
Adult Backpacking while the rest of the family takes part in Mountain
Weekend 1. 
Dr.
Throntveit’s presentations:
Plagues,
Passover, and the Precepts of Relationship: How God forged a relationship
with Israel in the heart of Exodus
The Gospel of John has a unique reading of the last days of Jesus’ life.
The first two sessions will examine the background
of John’s understanding of Palm Sunday and the Crucifixion found in the
Exodus narrative of the Ten Plagues of Egypt that culminate in the
Passover. A third session will be devoted to examining what such a
relational understanding of the so-called Ten “Commandments” reveals for
us today. Are they really “Law?” 