Trail Life USA, a “boy-centered” and “Christ-centered” alternative to the Boy Scouts launched in 2014, has grown to 65,000 members, thanks in part to church partners, especially Baptists. Trail Life has 1,309 troops, 400 of them in Baptist churches. For…
How a Georgia camp went from revival to castaway in five years
Ten days after the Georgia Baptist Mission Board announced the closing of its discipleship-focused camp in Middle Georgia, an agreement appears to allow the facility to remain open under the Friends of Kaleo. The Georgia Baptist Mission Board posted a…
The Kentucky youth group brainsaw massacre — a ghost story for All Hallows Eve and Reformation
“Can we go camping tonight, Brad? Pleeeeeease?” During seminary in Kentucky in the early 1990s, I served as youth minister at a small country church in the rolling pastureland 25 miles south of Louisville, Ky., in Elk Creek. Spencer County…