Tag: summer staff
Inside the Cove | Prep for Camp | Summer Staff
by Mina Hudson
With opening day just around the corner, each and every one of our camps is alive with energy and anticipation! Our incredible summer staff are finally here and have spent time spread across the grounds deep into Training Week as they prepare for the season ahead. From lifeguards and high ropes specialists to media pros, […]
Tags: 2025, ministry, summer staff
by Pine Cove
At each region, our summer staffers gathered to kick the year off together. Hear from our program teams on how it went and take a look at some highlights of the first annual Pine Cove staff conference! “It was so encouraging for staff to be together as the new year started! Just the concept of […]
Tags: conference, renew, summer staff
by Pine Cove
Editor’s Note: The following story was shared by Sami Grace “Scoob” Donnelly, a summer staffer at the Pine Cove Woods. I was a Crew counselor for Week 5 in 2022, so I was super excited when I found out my assignment for Week 5 of 2023 was Crew again. My old cabin and my new […]
Tags: prayer, story, summer staff, woods, zipline
Inside the Cove | Summer Staff
by Erin Harris
Editor’s Note: The following post was written by Erin Harris, a long-time camper mom whose son just served on summer staff at Pine Cove for the first time! Check out a few of the things she’s noticed about Pine Cove’s college staffers. For the past ten years, our family has been blessed by the ministry […]
Tags: lessons, lessons from camp, mom, summer staff, takeaways
With the leaves getting crunchier and mornings growing frostier, we thought it’d be fun to take a dip into our archives to find some fall-inspired camp names! While their “namers” may not have had autumn on their minds when they came up with these seriously fun turns of phrase, we still enjoyed sifting through years’ […]
Tags: 2024, camp names, fall, fun, name game, summer staff
Inside the Cove | Summer Staff
This summer more than 2,500 (let’s count ’em!) college staffers helped make camp Christ-centered, others-focused, and seriously fun! These awesome staffers represent a wide variety of colleges and universities from all across the southeast United States—and beyond. Each year we like to see how those schools stack up against each other for a little “comp-etition, […]
Tags: recruiting, summer staff, top 10 schools
Every year, our summer staffers come up with the funniest (and craziest) camp names for all of the newbies! From references to movies and holidays to puns based on food and songs, their creativity truly knows no bounds. We just can’t keep all these incredible—we love it!—camp names to ourselves, so we rounded up a […]
Tags: 2024, camp names, fun, name game, summer staff
1,538 new summer staffers this year makes room for 1,538 new uniquely hilarious camp names! This serious fun happens when each of our new staffers experience one of our favorite traditions: The Name Game! The Name Game is a time for new staffers to introduce themselves, and things tend to get personal (and sometimes pretty […]
Tags: 2024, camp name stories, camp names, name game, summer staff
Inside the Cove | Summer Staff
After months of searching for the most trustworthy, seriously fun college students across the US, we finally have them ALL on property! Orientation week is filled with acclimating the new staffers to the Pine Cove way (remember the first time you experienced “scraperhead?” Yeah, it takes a second to get used to!) and getting everyone […]
Tags: 2024, orientation, recap, summer staff
Inside the Cove | Summer Staff
If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Self, where do these incredible Pine Cove counselors come from?” you’re not alone! For decades, Pine Cove has been committed to hiring high-quality staff, and are often asked, “How do you do it?” Well, like everything else at Pine Cove, recruiting and hiring are seen as opportunities for ministry, where […]
Tags: christ centered, recruiting, summer staff