DAVIS—Summer is right around the corner and along with it the Falls Creek and CrossTimbers summer camps! This year’s camps are set to both inspire campers in their walk with God, as well as encourage them to share the love of Christ with others. Here is some more information on the upcoming summer camps.

Falls Creek

Falls Creek Youth Camp is approaching, and the Lord is, even now, preparing the way for the work He will do this summer.

According to Todd Sanders, Falls Creek program director, “This summer students will explore James 4 and be challenged to ‘LEVEL UP’ in their faith through spiritual disciplines by looking at the attitudes and postures that drive them. Sacrifice, submission, selflessness and surrender are vital to a believer’s thriving life in Christ but are often not easy to live out. The aim of the summer is to help turn theory into practice when it comes to following the Lord.”

Evening worship services are instrumental each week of Falls Creek Youth Camp. The spiritual results happen only because God moves, but He works through faithful leaders who preach and lead worship each night.

Sanders added, “Falls Creek Youth Camp provides a place for students to hear the gospel, come to faith, grow in Christlikeness, connect with the body of Christ and be challenged and equipped to live on mission.”

During the week one opening session, Garrett Wagoner, a Texas evangelist, will preach at Falls Creek Youth Camp for the first time and will team up with a familiar face, Cody Dunbar, in worship from Yukon, Together We. Newcomers to Falls Creek Youth Camp, Jay Sanders, from the University of South Florida Baptist Collegiate Ministry, and Ryan Snell, from Ophelia, Ala., First, anchor the evening worship services for week two. Sanders will return to lead week three along with Joe McKeen & So We May from Owasso, First.

Garry McNeill and Dustin Searles from Durant, First are set to preach and lead worship for week four. This is something new to programming in the past couple of years featuring a ministry team from an Oklahoma Baptist church leading together.

Rusty Gunn, Send Network Oklahoma and lead pastor of Sand Springs, Church That Matters will partner with So We May for week five.

Jeremy Freeman, pastor at Newcastle, First, will preach and Jeremy and Kat Robertson from Nashville, Tenn. will lead worship week six.

Week seven welcomes back Shane Pruitt, North American Mission Board National Next Gen Director, to lead with Matt Roberson & Oklahoma Baptist University Worship. Andy Blanks with Iron Hill Press will join Nate Jernigan & Crescent City Worship from New Orleans Seminary to round out the summer.

Falls Creek is filled with powerful times in the Word, fellowship, worship and fun. There are always activity opportunities for every student to engage in during the day including volleyball, ropes course elements, swimming, disc golf, missions mobilization, prayer walks, breakouts and more.

Missions venues will be refreshed this summer. Students can engage in a hands-on mission project with Oklahoma Disaster Relief and experience a late-night missions experience focused on the persecuted church around the world.

Joining focus with CrossTimbers Mission Adventure Camp, the student mission offering at youth camp this summer will go to support World Hunger Relief efforts.

Whether personally pursuing and hearing from the Lord, connecting with other churches on the rec fields or in services, or in the cabin growing with one’s own group, Falls Creek Youth Camp continues to be a place where the Lord is at work.

Join us in praying for Falls Creek youth and ask the Lord to move in the campers’ lives this summer. Visit oklahomabaptists.org/youth/falls-creek/prayer/ to find out how to pray for Falls Creek.

CrossTimbers

For 2025, CrossTimbers Children’s Mission Adventure Camp will be focusing on God the Father, the Creator of the universe. This year’s theme, “Have you Heard?”, is based on Isaiah 40:28, “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”

“This is a great verse that describes who God is,” said Sarah Hagar, CrossTimbers program director. “We are a missions advancement camp, we want our kids to leave the camp ready to ask their friends, ‘do you know who God is?’”

Between May 27 and July 25, a total of 12 four-day sessions will be held at CrossTimbers, giving churches numerous oportunities to attend. Each session will have a different speaker with messages that align with the
theme of “Have you Heard?”

Staple events at CrossTimbers are the mission stops. These interactive experiences introduce campers to various missionaries and ministries in Oklahoma, across the nation and throughout the world.

For the Oklahoma stop, ministry to refugees is the focus. Campers will learn what a refugee is, how a local church is building relationships with refugee families and what they can do if they meet a refugee family in their community.

The North American mission stop will be highlighting three church plants in New York City. Even though they are only three miles apart, their cultures are extremely different and within that three-mile radius, more than
800 languages are spoken.

The World Hunger Fund is the international mission stop focus. Ministries and projects supported through this fund address the physical needs of people so they can better address the spiritual needs of people. The mission stop will highlight four different ministries across four different continents.

The core values of CrossTimbers are for children to learn Biblical principles, experience nature in a fun and safe environment and to create and strengthen relationships with God, family and others. One of the key factors of CrossTimbers are the camp staff who is invested in leading others to Christ.

“The secret sauce with CrossTimbers is the staff,”
said Hagar. “They make it a very special and unique experience for the campers.”

For more information about CrossTimbers, visit oklahomabaptists.org/crosstimbers.