Kanakuk Kamps Launches An
Adventure Series in Summer 2012
BRANSON, Mo. (April 23, 2012) – Kanakuk Kamps is adding a brand-new
series to its repertoire during the summer of 2012. The Kanakuk Adventure
Series is the eighth type of Kamp for kids offered by Kanakuk and the
adventure-seeker’s ultimate summer experience.
The Kanakuk
Adventure Series includes a Survival Kamp and a Scuba Kamp. Both camps in the
series are guaranteed to teach skills that will last a lifetime. Each camp lasts for two weeks and is open to
both boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 18.
The Kanakuk
Survival Kamp is a two-week training course that emulates the U.S. Army Special
Forces “SERE School” survival course. A former military trained professional
who was once a Kanakuk Kamper himself will lead the Survival Kamp. The camp
will help boys and girls build character and learn spiritual lessons through
using only what God has provided in the woods. The camp will encourage campers
to test the limits of their physical and mental endurance, with lessons such as
starting fires, building wind-proof and water-proof shelter from limbs, setting
deadfall traps for game, making charcoal water filters, and many more. Campers
will experience several survival camp outs, each one becoming progressively
more challenging and culminating with a two-day solo survival trip.
The Kanakuk Scuba
Kamp will teach campers how to scuba dive and certify participants with an open
water diver qualification. Professional dive instructors from Aqua Sports will
teach campers stress rescue, underwater navigation and wreck diving lessons. Advanced dive courses include spear fishing,
night diving and underwater photography.
The Aqua Sports team will then lead Scuba Kamp campers and their
families on an optional dive trip in the Caribbean where they can put to use
all the lessons learned during the two-week camp series.
Kanakuk plans to
add a third Adventure Kamp series during the summer of 2013. The Aviation Kamp
will allow campers to attend flight school and potentially complete the FAA
ground school.
Kanakuk as a whole
serves 11,000 campers each summer and has been developing dynamic Christian
leaders through life-changing experiences, Godly relationships, and
spiritual training since 1926. For
more information on the Kanakuk Adventure Series, please visit http://kanakuk.com/our-kamps/adventure-series/.
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About Kanakuk Kamps
Kanakuk Kamps
began in 1926 with a group of boys from Texas trekking to the Ozarks for 8
weeks of building character and stamina alongside great Christian role models.
Today, there are 8 Kanakuk Kamps that serve over 11,000 boys and girls each
summer, including whole families at K-Kauai Family Kamp located in Branson,
Missouri. Kanakuk’s parent organization called Kanakuk Ministries is a
not-for-profit, 501(c)3 whose mission is to develop dynamic Christian leaders
through life-exchanging experiences, Godly relationships and spiritual
training. More information about Kanakuk
can be found at www.kanakuk.com.