First Camp in Seven Years

Over the weekend of April 5 to 7, around 90 people from Hutt City Salvation Army gathered at El Rancho Christian Camp in Waikanae for their first church camp in seven years, due to Covid-19 disruptions. ‘The main aim for the camp was to rebuild a sense of community and whānau (family),’ reports Major Jeannine Serevi. ‘We intentionally put heaps of structured free time in the programme so that people could talk and families could connect and have fun together.’ The themes across the weekend were belonging, growing together and go and do the same, based on the parable of the Good Samaritan.

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