Registration is now open for the 2025 Inspire Arts, Worship, and Service Camp (July 14-18) for children who have finished first through eighth grade. Find out more.
Registration is now open for the 2025 Inspire Arts, Worship, and Service Camp (July 14-18) for children who have finished first through eighth grade. Find out more.
Registration is now open for the 2025 Inspire Arts, Worship, and Service Camp for children and youth who have completed first through eighth grade. The camp runs each day 8:30 AM-1 PM, July 14-18, with an optional extended day from 1-2 PM Monday-Thursday. We hope that your children will be inspired to create and to serve as a result of their camp experience.
This year’s camp theme is “Christmas in July.” At Knollwood, we typically dedicate a lot of time during Advent to prepare for Christmas. Because of school vacation schedules and holidays, we often miss the opportunity to explore the story and significance of Jesus’ birth through music and worship with our children and youth. Our choral director, Danny Vancil, the minister of music and worship at Smokerise Baptist Church in Atlanta, will lead our children in rehearsing Christmas music that deepens their understanding of this important story.
Our service classes will focus on strengthening our relationship and experience with Africa Exchange. In another act of service, the Inspire Afternoon Ensemble will prepare and travel to perform at local retirement homes. The entire camp benefits from the incredible leadership of many dedicated Knollwood lay leaders, all of whom bless our children and youth during this unique and memorable week.
Children will bring a bagged lunch from home each day to enjoy. If children attend the extended day option, a light snack will be provided to them at 1 PM.
Families are invited to a culminating concert on Friday at noon. There is nothing else at KBC all year long like this worship service. After being immersed in a week of music and art and learning about service to our neighbors, Inspire campers will bring a unique offering to the culminating worship service that will move every worshiper who attends.
There is a maximum of 60 campers. The cost is $90 for the week (Monday-Friday), $25 dollars extra for the extended day option.
The word “inspire” comes from the root meaning “to breathe,” and the word shares a connection with spirit (which comes from the Latin word for “breath,” spiritus, which is also from spirare). It is our prayer that this will be a Spirit-led experience for our leaders and participants and that the Spirit will move among us during our week of camp. We love this definition of inspire: “to infuse (as life) by breathing.” May arts, worship, and service be as life-giving as breath for us all.
