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Outdoors with Purpose

Spring is the season of Outdoor Education for many schools in the area. During this time, Warm Beach Camp (WBC) is filled with the sounds of fun and discovery coming from the pool, fire circles, and many of the numerous trails through the forest.

The Outdoor Education program at WBC is in the first of its two peak seasons annually (the other being the fall). New and returning schools have selected dates, asked for their “regular” lodging option, selected their preferred curriculum, and prepared their classes for this immersion into experiential learning.

Students get to try unique activities like orienteering, fire building, creating a survival shelter, team building, and so many more. While at WBC, students also grow as a community through sharing cabins, eating in a new place, and seeing each other in situations and conditions that they normally wouldn’t like waking up with crazy morning hair!

The intentional learning and community development builds a positive and safe space for the students that lasts well beyond their time at Camp. Seeing one another in different contexts breaks down pre-existing assumptions and expectations while preparing them to go through the years of school ahead together.

The program is also an amazing tool for the teachers who can use a spring session as a culminating event to build anticipation, or a fall session they can draw from as the academic year goes on.

The Outdoor Education program at WBC prepares all who participate for building a more growth-based, emotionally safe learning environment and it’s a whole lot of fun. The team is ready to educate, what do you want to learn?

-Mary Pat Sullivan, Outdoor Education Director
Warm Beach Camp

Quietly Faithful: Remembering Gary Kocher

Throughout Warm Beach Camp’s history, certain individuals have come along who perfectly encapsulate what it is to be a servant of Christ. Gary Kocher was one of those people. He dedicated his life to humbly glorifying God, serving others, and diligently carrying out the work that was entrusted to him. Let us now revisit the impact that Gary has had on Warm Beach Camp (WBC). Gary Kocher was a volunteer youth leader in the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free ...

A Different Place for Different Needs

If you walk around the Warm Beach Camp (WBC) grounds during a specific week in the spring, there’s a good chance you’ll hear beautiful music pouring out of almost every meeting room. The Northwest Big Band takes over much of the main conference center grounds and floods the space with their sweet melodies during their time at WBC. “It’s so peaceful here,” One of the group’s leaders, Kate Erb, said, “so our participants can focus on their music and their ...

Living at Peace

“God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God.” Matthew 5:9 NLT God blesses us for doing the work of living at peace with ourselves and others. Peace reflects the character of God. A young woman named Skyler shared a video on the You Version Bible App on this verse. She likened the quality of peace as being one thing that shows us as being children of God. She went on to the ...