SHARING JESUS THROUGH ATHLETICS WHILE MODELING MANHOOD.
Our team believes that young men involved in sports can become positive leaders and influence generations to come – especially young men who know God.
- WHO: 9th – 12th grade boys
- WHEN: June 28 - July 2 2018
- WHERE: Xenia, OH
The JAM Camp schedule includes JAM session talks that connect athletics, life, and manhood from God's word. Throughout camp, students are mentored by volunteers, AIA and Cru staff, coaches, athletes, and business professionals, primarily from the inner city.
About JAM Camp
The vision of JAM Camp is to equip teenagers throughout Inner City communities with spiritual, mental and physical tools to live out the hope that all things are possible through Christ.
The below camp objectives support AIA's concept of obeying the Great Commission
- WIN: We introduce campers to Jesus.
- BUILD: We help them grow in their relationship with God.
- SEND: We send them back to their local community and beyond to share the truth and love of Jesus.
During the one-week JAM Camp students reside on campus in dorms and the schedule of activities include JAM Session talks with small group discussion followed by a speaker who presents an in-depth connection between athletics, life and manhood from God's word.
Each session is followed by a Lab where the students are challenged to apply the concepts discussed during the JAM Session.
Students also interact one on one with volunteer mentors and AIA staff and volunteers which includes coaches, athletes and business professionals primarily from the inner city.
Camp also includes a basketball skills clinic, flag football, sports performance training as well as a team building session at the high ropes course.
Students also receive motivational talks from popular sports figures who have partnered with AIA in the past.
The capstone event for the one-week JAM Camp is the S.P.E.C.I.A.L., which stands for Scriptural Principles + Exhaustion = Confidence In Almighty Lord and was developed as a means to bring athletes to extreme exhaustion so that they can no longer rely on their own abilities, but must become dependent on the Lord.
Although the sporting events are geared towards team competition, the ultimate goal is to encourage the athletes to personalize their dependence on the Lord for physical, mental, and spiritual strength to endure and overcome the challenges they'll face during the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. and ultimately in life.
