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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.

2012 Summer Theme Announcement: Rise Up!

The Kanakuk Kamps Summer Theme for 2012 is RiseUp! This year at Kamp, your child will hear what it means to take hold of Philippians 3:14 and RiseUp! to the challenge of our calling! With this summer's theme in mind, we've developed 6 special devotionals we’ll be sending via email and making available via download. Download them here. Feel free to share them with your friends. We hope you will find these devotionals useful, and help prepare your child, and your family for this summer. See you soon!

The story of this summer begins in 1926 when God’s hand stirred the heart of C.L. Ford. He arose from his place in Dallas, Texas and came to the Ozarks to begin what we now know as Kanakuk Kamps. There have been countless men and women, boys and girls who have followed in Mr. Ford’s footsteps; making Kanakuk a place full of laughter and cheers. Each one has chosen to stand up and step out in faith, taking the adventure step by step. Today, God continues to stir our hearts towards Him as He calls us to RiseUp!
The theme verse for Kampers is Philippians 3:14, “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Encouragement to a higher calling as we RiseUp! The theme verse for parents is Deuteronomy 6:7, “You shall teach them [God’s Word] diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” It starts in your home and continues when your child arrives at Kamp.

At Kanakuk his summer the youngest Kampers will see and hear that God is a loving Father and wonderful creator who loves them. Junior High Kampers will discover their identity is found in Christ and learn that God’s Truth should be the compass for life’s decisions. Teenage Kampers will be strengthen and encouraged as they learn to apply God’s Truth to impact and influence others for Christ. It’s a powerful message that starts with your family engaging in discussions around the dinner table this Spring. It’s a partnership with you that we are excitedly and prayerfully embarking on.
This summer at Kanakuk we will encourage our staff, our Kampers, and their families to RiseUp! To hear thecall of Jesus Christ in their lives, to be ready to live a life abundant with joy over what God is doing around us and calling us to be a part of! This summer promises to be an explosion of sports, activities, fun and worship! This summer promises to be an exciting adventure! This summer we will continue the tradition! We will exclaim the name of Christ! We will RiseUp!
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In addition to the six RiseUp! devotionals you can also download the first of our summer theme songs, by Christian rapper, Nasa Sete, here. “RiseUp! RiseUp!”

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