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You, your staff, and your campers will be able to respond to God’s call to care for creation in this summer’s theme. Campers and staff will consider the biblical mandate to be stewards of creation and will learn specific ways to “Handle with Care.” All of us involved in creating these resources pray that they will enrich and enable your ministry as you reach out to campers with the good news of Jesus Christ.

If you are a returning user, welcome back! We appreciate your continuing choice of these materials. If you are a new user, please take a few minutes to read the “Using These Resources to Design a Curriculum for Your Camp” section in order to become familiar with the format of the curriculum. It is our intention that you choose from this collection of resources to create your own curriculum matched to the particular needs of your camp and campers.

By purchasing these materials, you bought a license to use them at a given camp site for the whole summer. Open and edit files from the Word and RTF files on the CD-ROM, make copies of the CD-ROM, or make photocopies from the printed pages or PDF file. Governing bodies owning more than one camp site are expected to purchase a copy of the curriculum for each site.

“Handle with Care” is the eighth title of New Earth: Christian Resources for the Outdoors. This curriculum is developed by the New Earth Publishers, a cooperative group of denominational publishing houses, in cooperation with the Committee on Outdoor Ministry (COM) of the National Council of the Churches of Christ. Christian Board of Publication has published these resources on behalf of the other denominational partners and COM. The ecumenical team that developed the outlines for this curriculum and the writers are committed to outdoor ministry and to providing the best possible resources for this ministry.

A BONUS SECTION is included this year for facility directors and managing boards of camps. “Greening for outdoor Ministry Facilities” provides a rich resource of policies and practices for camps that wish to be faithful stewards of the portion of creation entrusted to them.

Your comments are valuable and important to the future development of these materials. Please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=
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