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Reasons to Choose Brookhaven


Family values Christian camps offer include:

• Safety: Careful staff screening and training weed out people unfit to serve. Christian camps work constantly to assure physical, moral, and spiritual safety for campers. Government regulations reinforce the camp’s efforts. A typical youth camp provides about one staff member for every three campers, with trained counselors guiding cabin groups. Texas Christian camps are additionally required to have all staff and volunteers who will have contact with kids at camp undergo child abuse prevention training.

• Friendship: Friends are one of the most vital forces for shaping a child’s character, and Christian camps create an environment where friendships form and grow. Campers encourage kids to share adventure with peers from diverse backgrounds over five or six days under spiritual guidance, allowing friendships to mature.

• Self-discovery: The overpowering sights and sounds of the digital world stifle personal reflection and creativity, while the camp’s natural setting and challenging programs create moments for self-awareness and creative thought.

• Spiritual input: Christian camps present the gospel through chapel services, Bible study groups, counselor-led sharing times, and campfires, providing opportunities for campers to make spiritual choices and receive counseling.

• Role models: The home church brings kids and leaders together for an hour or two of directed activity in a religious setting. At Christian camp, kids and leaders interact constantly in worship, play, adventure, discovery, and meals—the stuff of daily life. In this setting, the friendship of older Christians makes a great impact.

• Creation: Our world of wire and concrete dulls the spirit to the wonders of the nature. Many youngsters spend most of their hours indoors, going out only to move from one indoor place to the next. Camps feature the natural setting. Campfire worship, nature hikes, outpost overnights, and week-long out trips bring campers close to creation. The near presence of forest, field, hill, and lake stirs campers’ hearts. The heavens do declare the glory of God.

• Change of pace: Within the camp’s full schedule are pockets of leisure that provide the camper with breathing room. Away from the distractions common to life at home, and immersed in a Christian community, campers often find new life perspectives. The Christian life at home takes on the appearance of a group activity engineered by leaders, but God’s Spirit always deals with hearts one on one. Camp often provides the stillness that is mandated in Scripture: “Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10).

• Leadership growth: The camp, more than any other Christian agency, provides openings for entry-level leadership experience. Most camp leaders once were campers. A significant percentage of Christian leaders first tasted leadership in a camp and trace their sense of calling to a Christian camp experience.

• Fair price: Remembering their camp years, parents may wonder at today’s camp fees. The answer lies in the cost of today’s homes, cars, professional sporting events tickets, and dinners out. Considering the benefits one week at Christian camp offers kids, the fee represents an overwhelming value.

Whether you choose Brookhaven Retreat for your next Christian camp experience or some other venue, make the choice to get your kids to camp annually. It's an investment that will pay huge dividends in the development of the children entrusted to you.

Brookhaven Christian Retreat's entire facility is available for use all year long, so book your youth camp, family reunion, family camp, women's retreat, men's gathering or conference early to get your choice of lodging and meeting space.

Call toll-free at 1.800.933.1894 submit the request form or e-mail info@brookhavenretreat.org to check on availability for the desired season.


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Brookhaven Christian Retreat is a Texas Christian camp and conference center that groups can rent. It's located near Tyler, Texas, just a short drive from Dallas, TX.

 
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Christian Camps at Brookhaven Retreat are more than just Texas summer camps. During the summer, Brookhaven Retreat hosts a full summer of fun-filled, life-changing experiences for youth groups and campers of all ages. More than 5,000 children, youth and families each summer attend camp or retreat sessions at our Christian Youth Camp and retreat center in the Tyler, Texas area, just two hours east of Dallas, TX.

During the spring, fall, and winter seasons, Brookhaven offers the same experiences as our Christian summer camps, but through men's retreats, ladies' retreats, conferences, outdoor education programs, family reunions, day camps, scrapbooking retreats, and other events. These programs offer ample opportunities to get away to the peaceful surroundings of a premier Texas Christian camp in the Piney Woods of East Texas. Christian camps at Brookhaven Retreat are powerful ministries that have sought to glorify God through Christian camping since 1974 when James Robison opened a Christian camp on this site.

Bring your men's group, ladies' retreat, or church camp to Brookhaven Retreat near Tyler, TX, just 1.5 hours east of Dallas, Texas, and 1.5 hours west of Shreveport, Louisiana!

There's nothing like Christian camp in Texas. Texas Christian camps have a long tradition of excellence in offering a quality Christian camp experience. Christian camps in Texas are also safe. Strict government regulations help Christian camps in Texas stay on track with the latest health and safety requirements and best practices. Christian camps in Texas are plentiful and there are many good Texas Christian camps, but what sets Brookhaven Christian Retreat apart is its commitment to personal service. Church camp groups from Texas, Louisiana, and beyond find that Brookhaven Retreat stands among the best Christian camps in Texas because of the servant-minded ministry of its staff. Regardless of what you call the experience--Christian camp, church camp, youth camp, or summer camp, camp changes lives. Consider Brookhaven Retreat for your next Christian camp experience, just 1.5 hours east of Dallas, TX, and 1.5 hours west of Shreveport, Louisiana.E-mail Brookhaven