Category: Teenage Camps

2022 Adventure Camp

Posted on by Ministry Coordinator
  • 7:00pm Friday 4th February - 4:30pm Monday 7th February 2022
  • Co-ed in school Years 9 -13 in 2022
  • $280 (discounts may apply)
Enrol from 4pm 5th July

About this Camp

 
Come along for a Waitangi Weekend, Action Packed, Dunedin Survivour edition of our Adventure Camp
 
Gather your friends and get along…. 
Will you be able to Outwit, Outplay and Outlast?
 

Camp Features

Here is some of the features you will get to experience at this camp..

Swimming

Scuba Diving

Curling

Exploring

Camp Speaker

Geoff Lloyd will be joining us for another year at Adventure Camp. 

Talks will be based around

 Survivor: Overcoming Your Fears and Challenges

Today many of us are faced with fears and challenges that we often ignore or do not know how to handle.

Through Geoffs talks we will explore

  • How Christ can equip us to approach and deal with fears and challenges
  • What we can do when faced with these fears and challenges. 
  • Explore examples from the bible

2021 Backcountry Tramping Camp

Posted on by Tim Wiel
  • 10.00am Friday 10th December - 8pm Tuesday 14th December 2021
  • Boys and Girls in School Years 10 - 13
  • $280 (includes transport)
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About this tramping camp

Our backcountry tramping camp is for older teenagers that have a bit more stamina. This year we head into the glorious Greenstone and Caples Valleys near Fiordland.

As an older teenage tramping camp you will need to have reasonable level of fitness (so start training now) and will need to carry all your own food and gear with you as you tramp.

View of the start of the Caples Gorge
Map of our tramping location

Location

We are tramping up the Caples Valley and back down the Greenstone valleys with a side trip into Steele Creek.

We will be casually tramping on average 20km each day to private huts along a very good condition track down. We pass over the stunning Mckellor Pass and will explore side valley of Steele Creek. Along the way we will see  breath-taking views of Mt Tutoko (Fiordland’s highest mountain), the Caples Gorge (with beautiful hidden swimming hole) and Lake McKellor (a back-country lake only accessible by foot).

 

Itinerary

Coming soon…

View from Caples Valley into Fraser Creek

Our Tramping Camps Feature...

Backcountry Huts

We will be staying in two private back-country huts* we have booked in the remote wilderness - these huts give us some shelter but are often cold meaning warm clothing is a must. But the scenery is oh....so amazing!

Fun and Games

With no power or cellphone coverage*, we have plenty of time to play cool games like "The Most Awesome Game in the World" and make our own fun in the wilderness.


* we have a satellite communicator for emergencies

Good Food

Tramping is all about walking, good company and eating food. Lots of snacks to build up your energy for tramping

Testimonials from previous tramping camps...

The tramping camp down the Hollyford [in 2019] was one of the best CYC camps I've ever been on.
Anon
2019 Junior Tramping Camp Camper
It was my first tramp and I had no idea what I was doing but that tramping trip down the South Coast was one of my best memories as a teenager. Now I'm in my twenties I'm still doing lots of tramping
Anon
2013 Tramping Camp Camper
I just wanted to thank you very much for the tramp in the Hollyford. [My daughter] loved it and she has been talking about it a lot since ... [she] came back further encouraged spiritually
Anon
2019 Junior Tramping Camp Parent
View down the Greenstone from Passburn Saddle

Essentials to know before you enroll...

These are essentials to know before you enrol in this tramping camp:

  • You will need good fitness and be able to walk at least 20km each day on the flat. You can start building fitness now by going for increasingly long walks each week.
  • You will need to carry all your own gear and food in a tramping pack. We will not carry your food, clothes or even your hairbrush for you. As an group tramping camp we will also be carrying shared equipment which you will need to carry your share of.
  • There are some essential gear requirements for tramping. These include the following non-negotiable items to keep you warm and safe in the wilderness:
    • Good boots with ankle support
    • Warm Sleeping Bag (not a “cheap warehouse one”) – ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL IT IS RATED TO -10oC or greater 
    • Waterproof rain jacket (not a “nylon parka”)
    • Good thermal layers (base, mid and top)
    • Waterproof dry bags or pack liner
  •  Our leadership consists of leaders with a combined total of over 100 years tramping experience in the wilderness.

2021 Junior Tramping Camp

Posted on by Tim Wiel
  • 11.00am Friday 8th October - 8pm Tuesday 12th October 2021
  • Boys and Girls in School Years 7 - 10
  • $280 (includes transport to and from location and main meals)
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About this tramping camp

Our junior tramping camp is returning to the stunning Hollyford Valley where we ran our first Junior Tramping camp. It’s for anyone that  is keen on giving real tramping a try in the New Zealand backcountry.

As beginner tramping you will need to have reasonable level of fitness (so start training now) and will need to carry all your own food and gear with you as you tramp.

Location

We are tramping the first part of the Hollyford Track in Northern Fiordland.

We will be casually tramping on average 9km each day to DOC huts along a reasonably good condition track down the Lower Hollyford river valley. This brief-taking track takes in views of Mt Tutoko (Fiordland’s highest mountain), Hidden Falls (a stunning hidden waterfall) and Lake Alabaster (a back-country gem of a lake only accessible by foot).

 

Itinerary

Coming soon…

Our Tramping Camps Feature...

Backcountry Huts and Tents

We will be staying in public DOC back-country huts* in the remote wilderness - these huts give us some shelter but are often cold meaning warm clothing is a must. But the scenery is oh....so amazing!

* we also take tents just in case there is no room for us in the huts

Fun and Games

With no power or cellphone coverage*, we have plenty of time to play cool games like "The Most Awesome Game in the World" and make our own fun in the wilderness.


* we have a satellite communicator for emergencies

Good Food

Tramping is all about walking, good company and eating food. Lots of snacks to build up your energy for tramping

Testimonials from previous tramping camps...

The tramping camp down the Hollyford [in 2019] was one of the best CYC camps I've ever been on.
Anon
2019 Junior Tramping Camp Camper
It was my first tramp and I had no idea what I was doing but that tramping trip down the South Coast was one of my best memories as a teenager. Now I'm in my twenties I'm still doing lots of tramping
Anon
2013 Tramping Camp Camper
I just wanted to thank you very much for the tramp in the Hollyford. [My daughter] loved it and she has been talking about it a lot since ... [she] came back further encouraged spiritually
Anon
2019 Junior Tramping Camp Parent

Essentials to know before you enroll...

These are essentials to know before you enrol in this tramping camp:

  • You will need good fitness and be able to walk at least 10km each day on the flat. You can start building fitness now by going for increasingly long walks each week.
  • You will need to carry all your own gear and food in a tramping pack. We will not carry your food, clothes or even your hairbrush for you. As an group tramping camp we will also be carrying shared equipment which you will need to carry your share of.
  • There are some essential gear requirements for tramping. These include the following non-negotiable items to keep you warm and safe in the wilderness:
    • Good boots with ankle support
    • Warm Sleeping Bag (not a “cheap warehouse one”) – ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL IT IS RATED TO -10oC or greater 
    • Waterproof rain jacket (not a “nylon parka”)
    • Good thermal layers (base, mid and top)
    • Waterproof dry bags or pack liner
  •  Our leadership consists of leaders with a combined total of over 100 years tramping experience in the wilderness.

2021 Techno Camp

Posted on by Ministry Coordinator
  • 10.30am Monday 4th October - 2.30pm Friday 8th October 2021
  • Boys in School Year 8 to 11 in 2021
  • $280 (Discounts may apply)
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About this Camp

  • Love computers – so do we and we thought lets get 20 of them and run a sweet camp for all those hard core gamers out there.

Counter Strike, Team Fortress, Crysis and other games have been played in the past at this sweet camp.

But don’t think its just computers we do at camp …. not at all … in the past we have also:

  • Played the epic game that is Archery Tag
  • used GPS’s with a twist
  • Raced Drones
  • Played paintball
  • Made epic lego projects
  • Used VR sets
 

There are only 20 spaces at this extremely popular camp – so get in early and Enrol online now.

DIVE: The word of God (June 2021)

Posted on by Tim Wiel

Due to lack of enrolments this camp has been cancelled for this year!

  • 7pm Friday 4th June - 4pm Monday 7th June 2021
  • Boys and Girls in School Year 11+ in 2021 (Ages 15+ years old)
  • $90 staying overnight or $60 for day visitors

About this Camp:

Our Worldview Camps are for young people who have a desire to know more about God and to strengthen their Christian faith. These camps explore the Christianity in a deeper way than CYC Waihola’s regular camps. Campers will learn reasons to be confident in what they believe as Christians. 

At our DIVE weekend we will explore:

  • The doctrine of the word
  • What the bible is
  • How to read the Bible
  • How to establish a quiet time with God

Meet the Camp Director:

MEET GEOFF LLOYD 

Geoff and his wife Sara moved to Southland from Wales in 2014. Geoff is pastor of Wyndham Evangelical Church and Sara works as a writer. They have two young children

Truth for Youth Camp (August 2021)

Posted on by Tim Wiel
  • 7pm Thursday 19th August - 4pm Sunday 22nd August 2021 (see camp schedule below for venues)
  • Boys and Girls in School Year 11+ through to adult (aimed at ages 16 - 25 years old)
  • $70 staying overnight or $50 for day visitors
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About this Camp:

Our Worldview Camps are for young people who have a desire to know more about God and to strengthen their Christian faith. These camps explore the Christianity in a deeper way than CYC Waihola’s regular camps.

Campers will learn reasons to be confident in what they believe as Christians. They will be equipped to explain the Christian faith to non-Christians.  They will see that God is the most reasonable explanation as the origin of everything we see and experience in the world.

Join us as we explore tough questions, develop a more confident faith, and get equipped to be ambassadors for Jesus in our world today.

Our internationally recognised speakers, Dr. Steve Kumar and Todd Funk, along with our camp director, Jeff Coleman, will dive into worldview topics like atheism, Darwinian evolution, and the reliability of the Bible over 12 sessions.

There will also be time for food, fellowship, and fun over the weekend!

Camp Speakers:

Dr Steve Kumar
Dr Steve Kumar is an author, teacher, speaker, and apologist committed to answering the tough questions of the skeptics and equipping believers with the tools to think more clearly about their faith.

For almost thirty years Dr Kumar has been actively involved in speaking and writing about apologetics, philosophy and faith. As a prominent New Zealand Christian apologist, he is a sought-after speaker in academic and church settings around the world. He is a frequent guest on television, radio, and news media programs and is an influential voice on issues that relate to the credibility of the Christian truth claims.

As well as acting as the apologetics lecturer at the Excel School of Performing Arts for over 13 years, Dr Kumar has been a regular guest speaker at more than twelve colleges and campuses around New Zealand and throughout the world. He has debated several notable skeptics and atheists.

He co-founded and was president of the New Zealand Evangelical Apologetics Society and since then has been involved in working alongside christian thinkers, activists, church-planters, and pastors. With a passion for communicating ideas in a way that is accessible and lively.

He has authored a number of books including Think Why You Believe, Answering the Counterfeit, and Christianity for the Skeptics, which particularly has been recognised as an approachable and even-handed defense of the Christian faith and recently won the ‘Angel Award’ for excellence in media.
Todd Funk

Unique, inspiring, helpful…awesome, have been words used by many in describing Todd’s presentations. Because Todd has somewhat of an eclectic mix of gifts, interests and experience, his delivery is quite unique…especially in the “apologetics world”. He has a science background (BS. Biological Science University of California Irvine) and a love for knowledge and truth. Ten years as a public high school science teacher coupled with his years of experience doing youth camps, preaching and even weekly Bible-in-School programs has forged Todd into sought after communicator who knows how to engage diverse audiences.

In 2004, Todd, along with his wife Donna of 26 years and their two children, Alixx and Nikki, lay down the safety and security of their teaching careers and immigrated to New Zealand from the United States. In response to his obedience to fulfil God’s ministry call on his life, God has opened doors of opportunity for teaching, preaching and training throughout the USA, New Zealand, Ukraine, Australia, the Pacific Islands and beyond.

Todd‘s messages, teaching and ministry have powerfully impacted people of all ages on several continents. He has spoken for Thinking Matters at our Confident Christianity conferences and Unshaken Youth & Young Adult Conference and has been involved in men’s ministries and accountability groups for over 15 years.

Jeff Coleman

Jeff grew up in Salina, Kansas, USA, and trusted in Jesus at a youth camp as a boy. After university, he met and married Averil, a Kiwi, in 2008. He and Averil now have five children.

Jeff served as a lawyer with the U.S. Air Force from 2007-2014, and then studied theology at Dallas Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 2016.

He and Averil moved to Timaru in 2017 to found Firm Foundation New Zealand. In 2019, the family moved further south to Dunedin with the support of Cornerstone International Bible Church.

Jeff is passionate about disciple making, the Bible, evangelism, and developing young Christian leaders.

Jeff now serves as an elder at Caversham Community Church and continues to serve as a reservist in the U.S. Air Force.

Camp Schedule:

Thursday August 19 – Free Opening Session at Grace House, Dunedin (26 St David Street, Dunedin)
7pm – Steve Kumar: The Battle for the Mind
8pm – Todd Funk: Worldviews

Friday, August 20 – CYC Waihola
7pm – Steve Kumar: The Illusions of Our Culture
8pm – Todd Funk: U R W I S E (Theism vs. Atheism)

Saturday, August 21 – CYC Waihola
9am – Steve Kumar: The Crisis of Secular Man
10am – Todd Funk: The Darwin Delusion, Part 1
11am – Breakouts:

  • Steve Kumar: Academia Practicum
  • Todd Funk: Public Speaking Practicum
  • Jeff Coleman: Evangelism Practicum

7pm – Steve Kumar: What About Other Religions?
8pm – Todd Funk: The Darwin Delusion, Part 2

Sunday, August 22 – CYC Waihola (local churches invited)
10am – Steve Kumar: Is the Bible the Word of God?
11am – Todd Funk: Loving God with All Your Mind
2pm – Steve Kumar: 20 Reasons Why Christianity Makes Sense
3pm – Todd Funk: 10 E’s of New Testament Reliability
3.45pm – Conference ends

Camp Features:

Camp Games

Give ArcheryTag a go or try out the famous Zipline during the weekend

Good Food

We'll be eating some awesome food over the weekend

Meet the Camp Director:

MEET JEFF

Jeff grew up in Salina, Kansas, USA, and trusted in Jesus at a youth camp as a boy. After university, he met and married Averil, a Kiwi, in 2008. He and Averil now have five children. Jeff served as a lawyer with the U.S. Air Force from 2007-2014, and then studied theology at Dallas Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 2016. He and Averil moved to Timaru in 2017 to found Firm Foundation New Zealand. In 2019, the family moved further south to Dunedin with the support of Cornerstone International Bible Church. Jeff is passionate about disciple making, the Bible, evangelism, and developing young Christian leaders. Jeff now serves as an elder at Caversham Community Church and continues to serve as a reservist in the U.S. Air Force.

2021 Southern Lads

Posted on by Ministry Coordinator
  • 10:30am 12th July 2020 - 4:30pm 16th July 2021
  • Boys School Years 9 - 13 in 2021
  • $220 - discounts may apply
CAMP FULL - Enrol for waiting list

About this camp

Come along and experience the skill of being a Southern Lad.

Get your hands dirty in the outdoors while enjoying good company and learning skills such as deer stalking and possum trapping along with other farm related work plus hut and track development in the back blocks of Tupeka West.

Sleeping in wool shed and being fed on good New Zealand tucker each day: Experience a sheep and beef farm like no other along side the legend that is ‘Alf Bradfield’

Sign up now and let your training begin…

Camp Features

This camp may feature building and sleeping in a back country hut, deer stalking, possum trapping, farm related work and much more! It is sure to involve good honest hard work with dirty hands and smelly ‘arm-pits’ coupled with a sense of accomplishment!!!

You will sleep in a wool shed and experience good New Zealand tucker each day.

2021 Teen Girls Camp

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  • 10:30am 19th July 2020 - 2:30pm 23rd July 2021
  • Girls School Years 9 to 12 in 2021
  • $220 - discounts may apply
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About this camp

Come and join us for this small but epic camp for teen girls.  Spend the week chilling with old friends and making new.

Explore local surroundings through a range of outings and challenges. Look at creating portraits, natural beauty products, mirror craft and much more. 

A perfect way to unwind from the stresses of life.

Camp Features: may include

Previous camps have featured

Photography: Learn how to get the most out of your phone camera or a traditional camera from the talented Lara Moss. Get out in nature and learn some of the tricks of the trade for creating instagram worthy posts that will amaze your followers. 

Town trips: Exploring the metropolis of Dunedin.

Craft: Creating your own take away art 

Chill: This has to be our most laid back camp. Spend the week re-energising yourself by chilling out with other teen girls.

2021 Hunting Camp

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CAMP IS FULL – Please enroll for the waiting list!
Update 10:40am 4th November: This camp filled within 20 minutes of publishing sorry.

  • 10.30am Monday 19th April - 2:30pm Friday 23rd April 2021
  • Boys in School Years 9 to 12 in 2021
  • $220
Enrol Now for waiting list

About this Camp

This incredibly popular camp only has 10 spaces per year so get in fast to secure yours

Come bag yourself a goat, rabbit, pig or even a deer at this speciality hunting camp.

Camp Features

This camp is run on a high country farm in East Otago.

Come and experience the outdoors during a week of hunting

Cook your own meals, sleep in a wool shed AND develop your huntings skills !!!

ESSENTIALS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU ENROL

These are essentials to know before you enrol in this hunting camp:

  • You will need good fitness and be able to walk at least 12 km each day
  • You will be lead throughout the week by experienced hunters 
  • You will experience a range of farm life during your stay on this high country farm

2021 Cycle Tour Camp

Posted on by Ministry Coordinator
  • 10:30am Monday 11th January - 2:30pm Friday 15th January 2021
  • Co-Ed School Years 9 to 13 in 2021
  • $280 (includes transport to and from location and main meals) (discounts may apply)
Enrol Here!

About this cycle camp

This camp will require a good level of fitness. We are revitalising an old favourite. With the resurgence of cycle trails popping up over Otago we thought it might be time to bring back a new version of the CYC Cycle Tour Camp. 

 This camp is planned to take in sections of the Clutha Gold trail between Roxburgh and Lawrence followed by some more local rides near Waihola Not only will this camp take in some stunning Central Otago scenery and be a great time to catch up with some old friends but you will also get to try your hand at paddle boarding on Pinders Pond, plus lots of other cool down time activities.