Our Sports Camp this summer in the Northern Black Hills was incredible. With over 600 Campers, Leaders and Staff, it was an experience we always remember! We were blessed to have an incredible team of volunteers capture our time there and share in real time at camp at Evening Team Chapels. Watch below these highlights for each day.

Last summer and this year, our FCA Camp @BHSU was blessed to have Sarah Freymuth attend as an FCA journalist. She traveled to our camp and took many photos and interviewed Campers and Coaches. We hope that her stories and time at Camp continue the impact of Camp. Take a look below at one of her interviews with camper from Sundance, Wyoming.

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Published on June 25, 2022

SARAH FREYMUTH

What does it mean to be truly accepted and already approved?

This is the questions Andy Davis, a high school senior in Sundance, Wyoming, wrestled with as he began his week at FCA Black Hills Sports Camp. Joining his Huddle and working hard with the wrestling team, barriers began to break down as Davis felt this environment was different than any he’d experienced.

“It’s a very uplifting experience, very faith-building,” the first-time camper said. “It’s nice to be around other people with the same mindset and values.”

What really struck Davis was everyone’s vulnerability, from Huddle leaders to coaches to fellow campers. “It’s great to see everyone lifted up in faith and be themselves and not put on any facades or fakeness.”

Davis knows well the exhausted loop of seeking approval, spending years trying to measure up to his perceived standard of acceptance.

“I was never really thought of as the cool kid and I had a problem with that because I wanted to be the center of attention,” he admitted. “I was always searching, always trying to validate myself, have my friends validate me or tried to find validation through girls. I just never felt right.”

But the more he worked and bonded with his fellow wrestlers, dove into discussion during Huddle time and connected with the guys in Huddle and his Huddle leader, the more he realized he wasn’t alone in the struggle.

“The biggest help is definitely talking to guys with similar life stories who can say, ‘Hey, I used to want to be in the spotlight, but after I let God lead, it didn’t matter anymore.’”

Read more here.

We will be sharing more and more stories from Camp in the following weeks and rest of summer. There will also be lots of photos and videos. We hope the impact of Camp continues into the fall as Athletes and Coaches share the Gospel, grow in community and the Word and serve as leaders.