Camps International

Guiding, developing, and challenging a future generation

Equipping Leaders to Disciple

Camps International assists local talent to start Christ-centered camps in places where there are none. We train counselors in outreach ministry for their church. We create Christian counselor-focused autonomous camps that use small group ministry methods before, during, and after the camp event.

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Kids aren’t kids forever… that’s why we do camps.

Our most fundamental purpose is to challenge others to equip themselves so they can tell many about God's plan of salvation through His son Jesus.

How Camp Is Changing Lives…

Camps have impacted my life in a way I never expected. They have opened up new horizons in my life, led me to new experiences and helped me conquer my fears. Camps can be a very effective and powerful tool... I want kids and teens to come in contact with their Creator and be able to have a relationship with him. I believe camps can help that happen. LuceroLucero Morales
I met the Lord while serving at camps, and I want more people to have that life changing experience. Working with the Caldwells has been an inspiration to continue serving in this beautiful ministry. Fanny Cano Fanny Cano
I was a rebellious kid who never obeyed. When I first heard about the counselor training course I thought that I wouldn't be able to get involved. But I did and when I started listening to what the course was saying, God started working in my life. I found that I could help other people through camps. Gilberto Gilberto

David Caldwell is founder of Camps International.

David founded RYCCA, a Mexico-based non-profit that aids under-resourced camps, and has served multiple years on the board of Christian Camping International Latin America: Mexico. In 1994, David and his wife, a second-gen missionary, moved to Mexico to grow the local church through Christian camps. David has dedicated his life to developing Christian youth camps with the purpose of raising up leadership in the Church.

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Why Camps?

Camps International was organized believing that a culturally adapted camp facility and program would bring lasting benefit to children, their families and churches. There are many children living in large cities around the world with no access to the incredible influence of a Christian camp experience. We are working to change that.

Christian camps use the most effective means (counselors) to reach the most receptive hearts (kids). We train counselors who love Jesus so they can minister to kids through the authority of their local church in a safe place removed from distraction.

At no other time in life, statistically speaking, does one so easily grasp what God so freely gives as when they are a child.

How it Works

1. The Church

2. New Camps

3. Follow Up

4. Small Groups

What are the effective, profitable, and scalable business models? How do they work, and what do they require?

5. Discipleship

Before you build it, before you can even invite people to be interested in it, you need to design it!

6. Leadership

What do you need? What are the prerequisites? How do we get started? Discover all of that and more in the introduction!