Registration for Summer Camp 2025
| Camp Session | Grade Completed by June | Dates | Early bird Camper Fee through May 1 | Camper fee after May 1 |
| Junior Camp | grades 3-5 | June 2-6 | $250 | $260 |
| Sailing Camp | grades 6-12 | June 9-13 | $350 | $360 |
| Discovery Camp | grades K-2 + accompanying adult | June 20-22 | $110 child and $110 adult | $120 child and $120 adult |
| Chi Rho Camp | grades 6-8 | June 23-28 | $300 | $310 |
| CYF Camp | grades 9-12 | June 30-July 5 | $300 | $310 |
(Printable Camp Dates 2025 page)
How to Register for Camp
Step 1: Read the 2025 Camper Registration Guide–Lots of important information for campers and those helping them register!
Step 2: Register using this online registration link (https://forms.gle/FaLWCAZ2RB3yxci56)
Step 3: Take a copy of your confirmation to your pastor or youth leader.
Step 4: Pay your fee to your church.
Step 5: Prepare to come to camp. Prepare any medications, along with your Bringing Medication to Camp Form 2025. Find the camper packing list in the back of this guide.
Step 6: About 10 days before camp watch for your camper letter to arrive in your email. Updates about your camp will be sent to the email address you list on the registration form. General updates about summer camp are posted to the camp’s website [www.campkumbaya.org] and our social media.
Step 7: Join us at Camp Kum-Ba-Ya this summer. We can’t wait to have you with us at camp!
We’re hosting these exciting camps in 2025!
DISCOVERY (GRADES K-2) June 20-22 Bring your mom, dad, grandparent or guardian and come discover camp. We will have a great weekend of fun, fishing, swimming, canoeing, worship, and crafts as we learn about camp. Directors: Revs. Anne and Jeff Bruce
JUNIOR (GRADES 3-5) June 2-6 In Junior Camp we offer a variety of interest groups (from fishing to bracelet making to soccer). Our campers learn to create and lead worship, work together in small groups, and build a compassionate camp community that they will never forget. Directors: Revs. Kara Foster and Jim Midkiff
CHI RHO (GRADES 6-8) June 23-28 A week at Chi Rho Camp is filled with
wacky large-group games, meaningful keynotes and worships, and small group gatherings for talking deeply about our faith. Directors: Rev. Jeff Bruce and Elizabeth Classen
SPIRIT SAILING (GRADES 6-12) June 9-13 At Spirit Sailing Camp we learn how to be faith people. Yes, we talk about God, we talk about Jesus, we talk about God’s Spirit. Yes, we use the water, wind and sailboats to learn of our faith. Sailing Camp is a hands-on experience at the tiller of a sailboat, as well as hands-on with faith. Learn how to talk like a sailor with faith language. Directors: Revs. Brandon Cook and Jerry Johns
CYF (GRADES 9-12) June 30-July 5 In addition to learning and growing in our faith through Bible study, we learn how to connect our faith to our practice when we return home. We spend our evenings building community with a scavenger hunt, game night, adventure night, talent night, Raise the Roof worship, and our senior beach party. Director: Rev. Jamie Eubanks and Rev. Dee Wells.
Apply to Be a Camp Counselor or CIT in 2025
We are so grateful for the dozens of counselors that make this ministry possible. If you’d like to apply to serve as a counselor or counselor-in-training, please read the “Counselor and CIT Qualifications” document, and then follow the hot links below to our online counselor, CIT, and reference forms (now also utilizing an online form for 2025):
Counselor-in-Training (CIT) Online Application 2025
CIT Background Check Disclosure Authorization Minor Consent (Praesidium)
Counselor & Director Online Application 2025
Counselor & Director Online Reference Form 2025
Camper Rules
Read our CAMP KBY RULES.
Camper Commissioning Liturgy
Plan to send your campers off to camp with the prayers of your church. Ministries Across Generations offers a Camp Commissioning Liturgy for us to use in worship as we prepare to send our campers to Camp Kum-Ba-Ya. Use our graphics and our camp video to share why you love Camp Kum-Ba-Ya.
Send Your Campers Mail
You are invited to mail a letter (snail mail) or hand-deliver your letter(s) at camper drop-off. Be sure to write the requested delivery date on the envelope for your camper to receive your mail. To help the mail reach your camper in time, please mail at least a week early. Please put the camper’s home address as the return address so that we can forward it, if needed. Mail your letters to:
(Camper’s Name) (Camp Event–ex: Chi Rho Camp, CYF Camp, etc.)
Camp Kum-Ba-Ya
4943 Barge Island Rd.
Benton, KY42025
Camp Wakon’ Da-Ho 2025
- Chi Rho 1 (Just Completed 6th – 8th grade) – June 30 – July 5
- Chi Rho 2 (Just Completed 6th – 8th grade) – July 7 – 12
- Camp 101A (Just Completed K – 2nd grade – must be accompanied by an adult) – June 20 – 22
- Camp 101B (Just Completed K – 2nd grade – must be accompanied by an adult) – July 19
- Camp 101 Adult
- Mini Camp (Just Completed 2nd – 3rd Grade) – May 30 – June 1
- CYF 1 (Just Completed 9th – 12th grade) – June 2 – 7
- CYF 2 (Just Completed 9th – 12th grade) – June 23 – 28
- Eighter’s Camp (Just Completed 8th grade) – June 8 – 14
- Junior Camp (Just Completed 4th – 5th grade) – June 16 – 20