Summer camp

[jenley]

My dad has offered to pay for my son to go to summer camp. The problem is what I could not find on their website. It is called Lutherwood but there is no affiliation prominent on their website. I think that is sneaky? not forthcoming? I don't know what exactly but I do know that WELS and LCMS places have the logos visible when you go to their websites.

When he first asked last night, I told him I would look into it and get back to him. I found their website and looked around a little and found nothing, not even a belief or mission statement. I emailed my pastor and asked him if he knew anything about it. He wrote back that it is linked to elca and LCMS.

I am running into this a lot with my parents LCMS church. They are doing more and more youth geared stuff with elca churches because they have exciting youth programs.

My dad called me at work today and I still didn't have an answer for him then he called while we were at track practice tonight and when I just called him back he told me he had put down the deposit. I told him I didn't want my son to go and that pastor was getting information on the WELS camp for the kids at our church. He told me that if I still didn't want him to go when the time came, he would find another kid to send.

I very much appreciate him wanting to help but he didn't even give me a whole day to figure out what was up with this camp.

It's hard to be an adult kid sometimes. This is not the first time I have tried to explain to him why I don't want my son going to things sponsored by the elca.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

The only Lutherwood I know of is in Kitchener which works with troubled teens.
http://www.lutherwood.ca/

Mark

 

[cerette]

Jenley

Sounds like a difficult position you are in. That would drive me crazy, having a parent do things like that. Perhaps your dad cannot accept your strict beliefs and thinks you'll "soften up" if he just pays and you therefore have to send your son to the camp..

If you have explained to him WHY you aren't sure you want your son to go there, and he still goes ahead and pays before hearing your final decision, you have no reason to feel bad or guilty about him "wasting" his money. He made the choice to pay in advance.

Hope it works out.

 

[jenley]

The only Lutherwood I know of is in Kitchener which works with troubled teens.
http://www.lutherwood.ca/

Mark

http://www.camplutherwood.org/

 

[jenley]

Jenley

Sounds like a difficult position you are in. That would drive me crazy, having a parent do things like that. Perhaps your dad cannot accept your strict beliefs and thinks you'll "soften up" if he just pays and you therefore have to send your son to the camp..

If you have explained to him WHY you aren't sure you want your son to go there, and he still goes ahead and pays before hearing your final decision, you have no reason to feel bad or guilty about him "wasting" his money. He made the choice to pay in advance.

Hope it works out.

Thanks

 

[synger]

It doesn't look like it's affiliated with one synod or another. It is "supported" both by ELCA and LCMS churches in Western Washington. Check out the Contact Us page under the "About Us" and "Who Supports Us" sections.

Also, you could look at their Board of Directors, and see what churches they belong to. Or their "Ambassadors", who are contacts in each of their supporting congregations. That might give you some idea of the variety of their Lutheran beliefs.

 

[QuiltAngel]

jenley
It is great that your father wants to send your son to camp. Now, if you are not comfortable with the one that he wants to send him to, then don't. Tell your father, thanks, but no thanks.

I am the only LCMS person in my family, actually the only Lutheran. Many times my family does not get our reasons for things either. I just had to tell my brother a couple of months ago that he did not have to agree with something, but he had to respect it.

 

[DaRev]

I checked against our roster and none of the Ambassador's or Board of Director's churches are LCMS. The BoD shows a spot for a Northwest District representative, but that position is vacant.

 

[jenley]

Would you send your kid?

 

[DaRev]

Would you send your kid?

I'd have to do a little more investigation. For example, is the camp chaplain male or female.

 

[jenley]

I'd have to do a little more investigation. For example, is the camp chaplain male or female.

Exactly and it does bother me that this kind of stuff is not easy to find. Ya know?
I have pretty good detective skills, can find all kinds of stuff online but this one is using all my skills

 

[BigNorsk]

Well some camps don't have the best websites because they aren't even connected to the internet. I know one camp that specifically doesn't have internet by design. They have a website but it doesn't look like someone spends a lot of time on it because no one does. It's pretty basic.

Anyway, it looks to me like they try to get pastors to come and spend a week.

And in any case, why not give them a call and ask them a few questions? I'm sure there isn't too many things that they haven't been asked and it might be quite easy to schedule during a week when there is a LCMS pastor there and so on.

Marv