Deep Freeze One Ages: Jr High
Deep Freeze Two Ages: Jr High
Deep Freeze Three Ages: Jr High
Winter Blast One Ages: Sr High
Winter Blast Two Ages: Sr High
Family Snow Camp Ages: Families
Winter Blast Three Ages: Sr High
This retreat for Senior High youth incorporates all the best parts of Deep Freeze events – great food, fun winter activities, inspiring chapel speakers and full worship band – but the schedule will include more free time for your group to chill out together and make some lasting memories with new and old friends.
Camp Crossroads
Finding God in every moment
Friendship
Winter Blast retreaters all come with their church youth groups and so there is a lot of time in the schedule for deepening friendships that will continue at home. There are also fun opportunities to mix with other youth groups and make new friends. We'll make sure the hot chocolate machine is primed and ready!
Faith
A full worship band and chapel speaker will provide opportunities to be encouraged and challenged in your faith journey. There is also time set aside in the schedule for Chillin' in Church groups - a time when each church youth group can spend time discussing what was taught in the chapels and how it applies to daily life.
Fun
Winter activities include an outdoor skating rink, downhill tube run, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, ice-fishing, etc. We'll provide program leadership where youth groups can mix together and work on their team building capacity while having fun outside.
Meet the Chapel Speaker for Winter Blast 2!
Jeff Smyth
Jeff is passionate about engaging young people in an encounter with the living Christ and equipping leaders with disciple making priorities and practices.
Jeff is the DOXA Network Coordinator and part of the DOXA Lead Team in Scarborough with Youth Unlimited – Youth for Christ. He leads leaders and teams focusing on making disciples that make disciples of Jesus locally and globally in partnership with Sonlife.
Jeff is a twenty-plus year veteran of youth ministry, having served on staff in the local church as youth intern, youth pastor and family ministries pastor in Virginia and Ontario. Jeff is a graduate of Liberty Theological Seminary and Arrow Leadership. He and his wife Heather live in Pickering, Ontario and they have one son, Nate and a dog named Dodger.
Cost of Retreat
$153 + HST
Retreat fees include all accommodations, meals and program options.
Accommodations are Toasty cabins or rooms in Grey Gables. They are fully winterized with washroom facilities (Grey Gables and 6 cabins also include showers) and will be assigned by size of group.
Note: We are no longer offering Bring it ON! cabins for these winter retreats.
Family Camps
Discover the Wonder
Our family camps are designed to give families a chance to enjoy all the experiences of camp together. We provide structured and unstructured time for families to spend together enjoying nature and activities. We have two daily chapels with sessions geared to the specific age groups of adults, teens, young and older children. Each member of the family will be fed spiritually throughout the week.
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Discover the Wonder
Each camp week consists of various activities including swimming, canoeing, crafts, games, nature hikes, low ropes course, singing, storytelling, drama, day trips and theme days. Camp Crossroads Day Camp provides a fun and safe environment for children where they can create and grow lasting relationships.
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