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Summer Opportunities
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
 First Presbyterian offers a week each summer in June for a unique Vacation
Bible School opportunity for children ages 4 years old through rising 5th grade.
We offer a new theme each summer using thrilling Bible stories in which God uses a very common element to teach some uncommon lessons. The children will learn who Jesus is,
what He did, and what He asks His followers to do. Our curriculum is a rotational model
program offering four elements of learning: Art, Music, Recreation and Storytelling.
This is an enormous volunteer ministry supported by our parents. The VBS program also provides a great opportunity for adults to make new friendships for themselves and their children.
CAMP GRIER
Children of First Presbyterian Church families are encouraged to attend Camp Grier. Camp Grier offers a variety of camp experiences from mid-June through the end of July. Camp stays vary from three-day, five-day to two-week. Campers range from the second grade through Senior High. Details on these experiences are listed below:
- Rising Sun three-day camps are offered to second and third graders.
- Five-day Cherokee Lodge Camps are offered to rising third, fourth, fifth and sixth
graders.
- Five-day Cherokee Rustic Camps are for rising sixth graders who have had one year
experience at Camp Grier or rising fifth graders with two years of camp experience.
- Five-day Pioneer Rustic Camps are for rising seventh, eighth, and ninth graders.
- Pioneer Adventure Camps, offered for one week or two weeks stays,
is for rising ninth graders or rising eighth graders with one or two
years experience at Camp Grier.
- Senior High Camps include a two-week Senior High Adventure Camp, a one-week
Senior High Wilderness Camp and a two-week Counselor in Training Camp.
Activities are tailored to the appropriate ages but in general include swimming at the pool, boating on the lake, Bible Study, crafts, rope bridge at the lake, Discovery Trail, creek walks, snacks, hikes, cookouts, overnights, and vespers.
The mission of the Outdoor Ministries of Camp Grier is to serve Jesus Christ by using the unique natural setting of Camp Grier to provide the environment of a caring Christian community which will aid people to grow in relationship to God, His creation, themselves and others.
The program emphasizes small-group activity as well as whole-camp activities built upon a person-to-person relationship with each other and with God. All activities and studies will be taught with the emphasis on WHOLENESS that comes from centering all of life on Jesus Christ.
UPTOWN FUN
Uptown Fun is a two-week summer program for children who are rising two-year-olds through rising kindergarteners. (Age refers to a child's class placement for the following school year.) It is filled with many enriching activities: art, music, science, stories, games, and outdoor play. A child may be registered for one or two weeks and attends five days per week. Hours are 9:15-12:15. Children bring their lunches each day. The program is open to Weekday School families, First Presbyterian Church members, and the general public.
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