By Jordan East
Correspondent
Like everywhere else, Garaywa Camp and Conference Center in Clinton faced challenges in 2020, the biggest one being the first year since the campground began in 1947 that we didn’t have summer camps. We were only able to hold one of three of our Mother-Daughter weekends.
Last year also brought about staff changes. Those people are truly missed, but once part of the Garaywa family, they are family for life! Furthermore, we are excited for the ones the Lord will be adding to our camp family.
Even though 2020 can be characterized as a setback in many ways, Garaywa staff were still at work. We still had a God-given purpose and God had a plan for us. As we seek the Lord’s guidance for the 2021 camping season, we want to provide a place where churches can send their children, students, and families to have fun, make new Christian friends, and have the opportunity to hear that God created them, loves them, and has a plan for them!
We still have openings for campers and summer staffers. For more information, contact jeast@garaywa.org.
See you all this summer!
East is Garaywa’s camp director. Garaywa Camp and Conference Center is owned and operated by Mississippi Women’s Ministry/Woman’s Missionary Union, and supported by gifts to the Lord through the Mississippi Cooperative Program, the Margaret Lackey State Missions Offering, and the WMU Edwina Robinson Offering.
