Tag: counselor
Inside the Cove | Summer Staff
by Anna Birch Posted Sep 4, 2019
We. Love. Our. Staff! God uses them every summer to help transform the lives of thousands of campers each year. It also pumps us up to hear how, in the process of pouring out their lives at camp, they are impacted as well! For countless college staff, their experience over the summer is life-changing. They […]
Tags: college students, counselor, gospel, impact, life change, stories, summer, summer staff
Spiritual | Stories | Summer Staff
by Pine Cove Posted Jun 24, 2019
Some of our campers just can’t get enough of Pine Cove. And we love it! Our two-week programs offered at Timbers, Shores and Ridge are equipping campers to live for Christ beyond their time in high school. A Timbers Amplify counselor tells us her experience seeing lives transformed after two weeks at camp. As […]
Tags: amplify, counselor, life transformation, salvation, timbers, transformation, two week camping
by Valerie Morby Posted Aug 16, 2016
Editor’s Note: The following post was written by Michelle Tanzola, a mom who sent her daughter to the overnight youth camp at Pine Cove for the first time this summer! Last year her daughter experienced Camp in the City for the first time. Read about that experience here. If the Olympics gave medals for summer camps, Pine […]
Tags: app, CampLife, counselor, cq, olympics, parent, parenting, parents, staff, summer staff, youth camp
by Jillian Verret Posted Sep 13, 2013
We had the privilege of having a foreign exchange student as a camper at the Timbers during week 3! She is from Mexico and has been in the U.S. (Houston) for six months and will be returning back to Mexico on Monday. She and her counselor talked about her family life and how it has […]
Tags: counselor, gospel, international, jesus, lessons, mexico, prayer, salvation, timbers
by Jillian Verret Posted Jul 24, 2013
In December every year, we have a weekend called Winterfest, which is basically a mini-week of camp during the winter. It’s a blast. The weekend is similar to a normal summer week at camp. Campers get counselors, we have skits, and we do a lot of activity classes, not to mention an awesome concert for […]
Tags: camper, counselor, jesus, life change, salvation, senior counselor, summer, timbers, transformation
by Melissa Laughlin Posted Jul 19, 2013
One week of Orientation? Check. Five weeks of AWESOME camp-life? Check. Learned something? Definitely check. Ready to head home? …Debatable. As fast as each week has gone, it blows our minds that the first-half staff’s time at Shores is already over. Despite the varied responses to going home, everyone seems to cling to one truth: […]
Tags: counselor, reflections, shores, shoresreflect, staff, summer
by Melissa Laughlin Posted Jul 1, 2013
With Week 4 wrapped up and Week 5 on the move, campers and counselors will tell you that time has been flying by at camp! And every week God is making his transforming power known. Recently a camper at the Shores was baptized, proclaiming the truth of this power publicly. This was a great snapshot […]
Tags: baptism, counselor, faith, gospel, jesus, life change, shores, story, transformation
by Jillian Verret Posted Jun 21, 2013
At Pine Cove, we have a wide variety of campers from many different of backgrounds. Sometimes that is a camper who waits for Pine Cove year round and loves it more than anything, and other times it’s campers who have never been before and didn’t want to come, have disciplinary problems, have hard home lives, […]
Tags: counselor, discipline, faith, gospel, hebrews, lessons, life change, prayer, salvation, savior, timbers
by Cameron Atkinson Posted Apr 1, 2013
In preparation for my first summer working at Pine Cove, I had absolutely no idea how much I needed to pack or what I needed to pack. They sent out a packing list and list of theme nights, but even then it was hard to figure out how much I should bring to each item […]
Tags: counselor, packing, summer, summer prep, summer staff