Final Results for Highlands Camps in 2010

The Lord blessed the Highland Camp Ministry in such an unusual way during the year 2010. This news bulletin is to thank those who gave so generously last year, and to encourage new Pastors and Churches to become not only a prayer partner with us, but a financial supporter as well!
$21.00 is the average it takes to transport, house and feed a student for camp. As you will see, the results are tremendous. Our mission statement says it all, “A 21st Century Miracle of Youth Evangelism that Really Works.”


Craig Lingo from Colombia, SA (Parents Camp)

This past Sunday we had a special service for all of the parents who went to camp. We had over 632 people in our services. That is almost double what we were averaging. By the end of the day, 4 more adults had accepted Christ as Saviour. I think it was a very worthwhile effort. Thank God for the 120 volunteers we had at camp, and all the great people that helped here in Bogota!

Allen Owen and the OSY camps: (Out of School Youth)

For the year 2010 at Highlands Mexico

42 Camps
17, 392 Campers
4,992 Professions of faith
2,077 Baptisms

This is all in addition to what has been accomplished through the Ed Hoagland camp ministry during the Summer months. God’s Word is powerful and is having a tremendous impact here in Mexico among the youth. I stand amazed at these numbers and what they represent.
I am also overwhelmed that there exists such an entity as the Rawlings Foundation with such a generous and caring heart that makes sure that missionaries have the tools needed to see these kind of results. Than you! You have helped change many lives for eternity.


David Jones Reports from Tanzania
What a tremendous launch of the Highlands Tanzania youth camp. In three camps 1,133 campers and 106 volunteer workers came from five regions of the country. Ninety-four youth responded in the first camp, 70 in the second, and 36 in the third for a total of 200 campers giving their life to Christ. Many other decisions were made as well.
These camps are not church camps, but rather evangelistic camps targeting lost Secondary School aged youth. Kids of all different faiths and lifestyle come to the camp, most with addictions, hangups and hopelessness. Every facet of camp is designed to show them Christ's love and bring them to the place where they acknowledge their need for the Savior The theme "R U Connected?" was simple, to the point, and effective.

All 200 who made salvation decisions are being followed up by our local church leaders. Please pray that they will immediately take steps forward in their new walk with Christ. One of our churches reported that 50 youth from the camp came to the Sunday services this past weekend!


Craig Lingo and the 2010 Report
We had a total of 1125 Students attend evangelistic camps, and 244 Parents who went to an evangelistic camp designed especially for them. There were 476 kids who made professions of faith, and 99 parents who did likewise. This is almost 41% of those who went to camp. We do not baptize the teenagers at camp because they are minors and we would have to obtain parental consent to do so. However, we have baptized 57 people at church, most of them were saved at the various camps.
There were also a total of 575 volunteer attendees at these four camps. We have almost 240 people on our volunteer list, so not everyone went at each camp. This is our big bottleneck, if we had enough volunteers, we could do more camps.
In addition, we took 1203 High School students to three Moral Values Retreats. We cannot share the gospel openly with these kids, but it is our first contact. We are doing one set of Moral Values Retreats at each school, so we are looking to open up two or three more schools this year.
At the same time that the kids are returning from the Moral Values Retreat. \We had over 1200 parents attend these meetings and fill out a form for future contact.
Finally, all in all we hosted 3957 people in The Rawlings Foundation sponsored events. Also, since there is still a lot of open space on the yearly calendar at the Highlands, Colombia, we hosted 4,822 campers from other groups. We have no record of the results in those events. The total of campers hosted at The Highlands Colombia was 8,779 in 2010.

Ed Hoagland from Mexico:
Once again the Mexican Baptist Bible Fellowship would like to express our gratitude to the Rawlings Foundation for their enormous financial & spiritual help in reaching Mexicans with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We had been praying for 20 years for God to supply us with a camp facility in order to impact this society and change the culture. Not only did God use the Rawlings Foundation to provide us with a facility much nicer than we had even dreamed, but they also have taken care of the expenses involved in busing, feeding, and housing all of the unbelieving young people that we can round up to go there. Because of the help that the Rawlings Foundation has given us, our group called “Decisions” here in México was able to take 5,941 unbelieving young people to the camp this past summer where we saw 1,875 make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ (each person was dealt with individually), 575 of them were baptized at the camp, and 133 signed up to enter into our Bible College. This summer 30 churches in México participated with us and all of them have greatly benefited from these camps. To the Rawlings Foundation we say with all of our heart: “¡¡¡Muchas Gracias!!!”


Gus Hernandez and Highlands Dominican Republic

Though we are not yet officially opened, the Lord has done a great work these last 5 months with our events. We had 13 events including a Haitian, Dominican and American pastors conference with 300 pastors in attendance, 2 soccer camps, 3 evangelistic camps, and 4 baseball camps, Compassion International annual day camp, and 2 local churches day camps . We had 2,585 in total attendance and 381 professions of faith. We are really excited to see what the Lord has for our future ministry here in the Dominican.

Results from the Greg Lyons Team and their Evangelistic Camps for Youth.
Thanks so much for all you do! Tens of thousands of souls have been saved through your generosity.
Evangelistic Youth Camps 2010
Camps - 90
Campers - 109,507
Salvation Decisions - 52,651
Baptism Decisions - over 9,000 to date
Student Applications for Baptist Bible College Asia - 1,998
Evangelistic Teachers Camp 2010:
Camps - 11
Campers - 8,292
Salvation Decisions - 3,650
Grand Total - 117,799 Campers; 56,301 Salvation Decisions PRAISE THE LORD!

2011 Camp Goals

I believe we can reach 125,000 campers in 2011. This is a combined total of Youth Camps (110,000 campers) and Teachers Camps. (15,000 campers)

Note: We reached a District Superintendent of the Department of Education for the Rizal Province during Teachers Camp 2010. She offered to approve nearly 5,000 public school teachers in her district to attend Teachers Camp 2011! A great win for the camp ministry!

(Teachers Camp)

10 camps from October 1—November 10, 2010.
Total Teachers present: 8,292
Total Saved: 3,650
These are leaders, school officials, and adults who have seen the change in the young people reached during the Evangelistic Youth Camps of 2010, and are now wanting to find out how to know the same changes in their lives as well
One specific gain:
One of the District Superintendents of the 6 school districts of the greater Metro Manila area brought 500 of her principals, department heads, head teachers, and administrative staff to camp. She wanted to bring her entire school faculty of over 3,000, but we just could not accommodate them this year.
At the end of the camp, the District Superintendent requested a special meeting with us. As we met, she thanked the Rawlings Foundation and our local team for offering the “Teachers Camp to her district.
She called over her personal assistant and said, “Remember these men who lead this camp! Whenever they come to the District offices, allow them to come in, even without an appointment.” She continued, “Pastor, you no longer need to secure specific permits for your ministry’s programs in our school district. Feel free to develop and implement programs that will benefit our students and teachers. We will cooperate with you on any level you would like to pursue.”
Only God does these kind of things.
The District Superintendent desires to send over 20,000 young people to our next series of Youth Camps in 2011! We are impacting a nation through this effort! Only time will tell the impact in the lives of these teachers and the thousands of young people who have come to Christ through the years in the Highland facility the Rawlings Foundation has provided.
Thanks for partnering with us.

Highland Camp Totals for 2010. All Facilities:

Campers: 154,261
Salvations: 64,328
Baptisms: 11,652
Bible College Applications: 2,131

Bogata, Colombia, SA and the Highlands Camp

As far as the Evangelistic Event for Parents (August 6 and 7), we we're bit disappointed with the attendance. I think the last figure was 287 parents who attended. So in spite of factoring in the "no shows", we didn't calculate it well. There were over 100 people that stayed here in Bogota who could have gone if we had just known so many were not going to show up. We had about 2/3 women and 1/3 men. The latest figure as far as people saved was 97 adults. We had several Christians that slipped through, so the proportion was probably close to 40% of the lost who responded to the invitation. We have to get better at filtering out the Christians that just want a free camp, and estimating those who don't show up so that we accept more applications.
This past Sunday we had a special service for all of the parents who went camp. We had over 632 people in our services. That is almost double what we were averaging. By the end of the day, 4 more adults had accepted Christ as Saviour. I think it was a very worthwhile effort. Thank God for the 120 volunteers we had at camp, and all the great people that helped here in Bogota!
We just moved into a larger rented facility last February, and it appears that we will be starting a 2nd service shortly.
Thank you all for making this possible.
Craig and Fran Lingo

I sent this early this morning on my other email site, and I never know if the go through, so here it goes on good old reliable gmail:
Hi George, Herb and Bill
We wrapped up our Evangelistic Camps on June 5 – 7. Here are the stats on the last one:
Campers 538Volunteers 163TOTAL 701

We were pretty well running at full capacity. We moved beds up from the ranch house and put our volunteers on the floor. So we ordered more mattresses and brought in 20 tents. We didn’t have enough trays in the kitchen , so the last few had to use disposable plates. As far as lodging and feeding, we were put to the test, and I think we passed it fairly well. Meals were on time and our volunteers are such good sports that we heard no complaining about their sleeping arrangements. What was really stretched to the limit were our counselors. On the guys side, we had 16 kids per counselor.

Considering the kids who came, that made it very difficult to have ,much quality time with each one...something that is extremely important for evangelism and especially follow up. By the last day, we had 243 kids who made professions of faith! So God was good and gave us a great harvest.

Last Saturday we had a Youth Rally at church and this coming Saturday, we start our workshops in order to improve the retention. This is probably the hardest work and where we need a lot of improvement. I’ll never be satisfied with a 20% to 25% retention rate! We have to learn to do better!All in all it has been a fruitful season.

On August 7 – 8, we have our Parent’s Evangelistic Camp. We already have over 20 parents enrolled and we haven’t really opened inscriptions. Getting the parents will certainly improve our chances of keeping the kids.

Thank you for making this possible.
Craig Lingo, Colombia, SA