Super Summer at ±«Óãtvenergizes aspiring student, veteran church leaders to share the Gospel

Campers enjoy participating in one of many uplifting activities during last year's Super Summer at Mississippi College.

For more than a decade, Josh Kinsley has practiced what he’s preached by bringing future church leaders to Super Summer at Mississippi College.

The high school pastor at Broadmoor Baptist Church in Madison will not only wish his students well at the camp, scheduled for Tuesday to Saturday, July 8 to 12, but also stay actively involved in Super Summer as a “faculty member” in the “Yellow School.”

Super Summer students are divided into “schools” – referred to by colors – based on their ages and the number of years they have attended the annual event.

“Super Summer talks about being a Christian leadership camp, but I refer to it as a church leadership camp,” Kinsley said. “Our churches need the next generation to step up and serve. We want our students to be out in the community making disciples, of course, but we also want them to grow in the church and to raise the next generation to serve in the church.

“The students have the opportunity to develop their Christian leadership skills and the skills they will need to serve their church, both now and in the future.”

For more than three decades, the discipleship and evangelism conference has nurtured student leaders. Super Summer challenges them to not only cultivate their faith, but also to share it with others actively.

“Super Summer is the culmination of what we do in our leadership groups in our high school ministry,” said Kinsley, who has taken students to the camp at ±«Óãtvevery year since 2014. “It’s a place where they can be fed and grow in their leadership capabilities.”

Across the Clinton campus, groups clad in brightly colored T-shirts meet together to talk, laugh, sing and share the Gospel. Each “school” is led by student ministers and other church leaders selected by the Super Summer Planning Team.

First-year students in red, silver, orange and gold schools study basic discipleship topics. Second-year students in blue and brown schools cover worldviews, different beliefs and character issues. Third-year students in yellow and lime schools focus on becoming leaders in all areas of their lives.

Fourth-year students in the green school concentrate on the Christian worldview. Fifth-year students in the purple school review and refine what they have learned during the previous four years at Super Summer. They spend portions of their week gaining missions experience, usually in the Jackson area.

Super Summer builds on previous years of training, but a junior or senior in high school who has never been to the conference will still feel welcomed and find the instruction relevant.

As an adult church leader, Kinsley said he derives as much benefit from participating in Super Summer as the campers.

“The students love it, but honestly, it is a camp for me as well,” he said. “I go into Super Summer spiritually exhausted – and you don’t get a lot of sleep during the week – but I come out of Super Summer refreshed.”

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