Overnight Camps
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As a summer leader, you will work directly with a group of campers for the entire week. From doing activities together to leading bible studies and sharing testimonies around the campfire, you'll focus on building relationships with kids and providing them an amazing camp experience. You'll also be responsible for the campers in your cabin and their physical, emotional, and spiritual safety.
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As a high adventure activity leader, you'll spend your week running the climbing wall, zipline, and working to develop teams on the low ropes course. You'll have the chance to encourage and interact with campers who may be facing uncertainty or fear during these activities. You'll also get paired with a cabin group so you can spend time with campers during campfires and in between designated activity times. SpringHill is deeply committed to our inclusion program, so an important part of your role will be to help all campers, especially those with special needs, participate in high adventure activities with their cabin mates.
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As a boat driver, you'll spend your summer on a 350 acre lake with campers 4th-12th grade. You'll be responsible for driving boats in an appropriate manner to provide a fun and safe tubing experience for campers. You will also be a lifeguard to keep an eye on boats and ensure the safety of swimming campers. Your lifeguard responsibilities also include aquatics activities like the blob and waterslides. Additionally, you'll get paired with a cabin group so you can spend time with campers during campfires and in between designated activity times.
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As an area director, you'll focus on programming for campers as well as leading and encouraging summer leaders. You'll be responsible for:
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Other Key Functions include:
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We look for a business services intern who:
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As an inclusion leader, you'll work alongside summer leaders in a cabin group, providing one-on-one care for campers with special needs. You'll assume the same responsibilities as the other summer leaders, specifically ensuring that campers with special needs are taken care of from a social, emotional, and physical standpoint. You'll have to look for creative ways to adapt lessons to meet the needs of your assigned camper and ensure their camper is included.
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We look for media directors who:
$175/week ($1,750 for a full summer)
Meals and Housing: Your housing and all your meals will be provided during your time at SpringHill (with the exception of Saturdays at Day Camp). At Overnight, you'll eat in the dining hall with your campers. At Day Camps, you'll have your meals at the church, at your host home, or out with your staff.
Yes! You do get time off, but it looks different for each role as well as for Day Camp or Overnight camp.
At Day Camps, campers go home everyday which means that you get to hang out with your staff at your host home, explore the city you are staying in, and get prepared for the next day of camp. Weekends are also a time to unwind and get ready for a new week, a new city, a new church and new campers!
At Overnight, your campers are with you 24/7, but that doesn't mean you don't get any downtime. You do get breaks during the week and on weekends, you will have the opportunity to get some free time to head into town and explore local restaurants, hang out with your staff, do laundry, or simply relax in your hammock.
We do ask that summer leaders commit to working at SpringHill for the entire duration of camp. Exceptions include "once in a lifetime" events like a family wedding or graduation.
The best way to tell you about this benefit is just to share some words from our staff:
"You develop life long friends."
"Some of the same people I worked with at camp during my first summer are still my best friends today. Some of them were even in my wedding."
"They are intentional relationships"
"I know there are people I can count on when I'm going through things."
Internships: We offer most of our jobs as internships and work to make sure that you are able to meet your internship objectives. In every position, we will work with you to help you learn skills and gain experience that you can directly transfer to your professional life post-SpringHill.
You'll receive training in experiential learning, increased self-efficacy, formal feedback processes, and coaching in several of our 10 identified leadership competencies. This experience during the summer will be a training ground so that you can be even more effective when you go back to your schools and communities in the fall. You will have learned and experienced how to lay down your burdens and pick up your cross as Jesus directs us to in Matthew 11:28-30.
"When I'm at SpringHill, I feel known and accepted."
"I know that if I need to call someone at 2 in the morning, that my SpringHill friends will be right there to pick up the phone, cry with me, pray with me and walk through the trials of life with me."
"We have fun together, we worship together, we do life together."
"It is a spiritual support system"
Of course! $175/week starting salary.
That depends. At our Overnight camps you will mostly stay put for the whole summer, but may be asked to travel to a Day Camp location for 1–2 weeks. If you serve with Day Camps, you will travel throughout a region, hosting camp at a different church each week.
In 2006, God called SpringHill to move and go meet kids in their own city, so we decided to take camp on the road! Day Camp is a summer of week-long camps hosted by leading churches where we take local kids on an adventure and share Christ's love. Day Camp means travel, fun, and getting outside your comfort zone.
Overnight is the classic camp experience — complete with blobs, climbing walls, ziplines, and intentional relationships. SpringHill has been doing summer camp since 1969 and has two locations; in beautiful central Michigan and scenic southern Indiana.
We will do our best to help you earn college credit by working at SpringHill. Many college programs offer internship credit, and we will work to make sure that your job fulfills those requirements.
If we're at a church in your city, you can stay at home! Otherwise, SpringHill's partner churches provide housing for us when we travel in the form of generous host homes. All host homes are background-checked and host at least 2-3 summer leaders.
Overnight locations are located in Evart, Michigan and Seymour, Indiana.
Day Camps travel in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Kentucky.All you need to know about prepping for your summer at Michigan Overnight.
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"I developed in leadership, learned more about that it means to work in ministry, developed life-long friendships, and chose to alter my career path as a result of working at SpringHill."
Former Overnight Summer Leader