Retreats, camps, lock-ins, and conferences are a staple of student ministry. While many of my articles up until this point have been toppling sacred cows (games, music, etc.), this is one with which I agree. The benefits are myriad.
Depending on your geography, it's possible that the students in your tribe only meet once or twice a week for a couple of hours. Your kids may be congregating and converging from many different schools, and the only shared experiences they have involve circling their chairs, playing an ice breaker, singing songs, sitting quietly and listening to a sermon, and praying. Those are good, but they are incomplete. It's a 90 minute or 2-hour stint, and then nothing for another 7 days.
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