Last week 110 people travelled to Galston for our Switch Youth Camp for 2011. In the history of Dapto Anglican Church this is the largest number of youth we have ever taken away. A record and so exciting to be a part of!

It was a great weekend spent talking about how our faith is not a religion but a relationship with GOD, how we needed to stop making excuses and stop living in fear of God. On Sunday morning we were reminded that we are GOD’S masterpiece, made for the master’s purpose. On Sunday morning 5 young people were baptised which was a great way to finish out our weekend.

In my 11 years experience of Youth Ministry I have never seen a youth camp that has unified a youth ministry like SWITCH. GOD did something special in our youth ministry last weekend and we saw many young people surrender their lives over to JESUS, some for the first time. PRAISE GOD.

Many thanks to our 7:15pm Congregation, they allowed us to come back and take over their service on Sunday. We hope you were encouraged by what you heard and saw of all the things GOD is doing in our young peoples lives.

Thanks to my Youth Leaders and the great cooks that worked hard all weekend and served the youth of our church, and thanks to our youth for an amazing and special weekend and last but not least a SPECIAL thankyou to all those who prayed for us over the weekend. Your prayers were answered.

If you are wondering how you can continue to support youth ministry after camp, you can:

  • Pray for the young people who made commitments to follow JESUS, that they will grow into mature followers of JESUS.
  • Pray we can continue the momentum from camp and live excited for JESUS wherever we go.
  • Pray for protection over our young people as they live as salt and light in their schools and homes.
  • Financially donate to Switch (its not too late). A number of young people couldn’t have attended SWITCH if it wasn’t for the financial support we receive from our church family each year.

Pete Gold,
Youth Pastor