Church of the Good Shepherd
3700 Rutherford Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17111-1940
The Reverend Kathleen J. Baker, Pastor
Harrisburg Area
Confirmation Camp
Harrisburg Area Confirmation Camp is a week long experience for youth living out their baptismal experience together. The focus of the week has specific catechetical goals for youth, yet the learning is largely experiential. In fact, it is through the combined experience of group study, recreation, sports, worship together, and small group living experiences that youth learn what it means to be the Church, and how baptism becomes the basis for that experience.
Confirmation Camp is the product of twenty-five or more Lutheran member parishes in and surrounding Harrisburg, who together administer and provide staff and counselors from its ranks of pastors, youth leaders, and lay people. Good Shepherd is a member parish. Confirmation Camp is held at Camp Nawakwa, in Adams County, one of the most popular sites of our synod's camping facilities. Camp is traditionally scheduled the third week in June, with application deadlines in early April. Any youth participating must be rostered through one of the member parishes.
Four independent curricula support the goals of Confirmation Camp:- Campers have completed 8th grade.
- God's Gifted People (GGPs) have completed 9th grade.
- Maturing in the Body of Christ (MBCs) have completed 10th grade.
- Leadership Training (LTs) have completed 11th grade. Christian Leadership of Artistic Youth (CLAY) a specialty track in the arts.
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