What to Bring and What to Leave Home
What to Bring:
- Bedding
- Air mattress, sleeping bag and/or sheets.
- Clothing
- Ladies: dresses and skirts; bring clothing appropriate for both work and recreation.
Men: slacks and shirts with collar and others items as appropriate for recreation. - Shoes
- You'll be doing a lot of walking, so make sure they're comfortable.
- Toiletries
- Devotional Material
- You need your Bible and Colporteur Ministry.
- Colporteur Ministry
- If you own this book please bring it. If not please, try to obtain one.
- Positive Attitude
- A willing, positive attitude will make or break your trip!
What you may want to bring:
- Musical Instruments
- If you play, of course!
- Non-perishable Food Items
- If you plan to pack your lunch or if you have special dietary needs
- Extra Money
- For accidentals like laundry, lunches, or flowers for your leaders
- Personal Music Player
- Please bring ear phones and make sure you bring only uplifting music i.e. classical or sacred Christian music. (Famous Phrase: If in doubt, go without!)
What to leave with Mom & Dad:
- Questionable Music (Rock, Alternative, Rap, whether Christian or not)
- Boyfriend/girlfriend relationships
- Junk Food
Why?
Good question. While we will not all see eye-to-eye on some issues, the Leadership team of the Atlantic and Columbia Unions has some fundamental beliefs that we ask you to respect. We will do our best to present to you the reasons for our decisions during the program, but for now please accept these regulations as evidence that we have set our hearts on having a very spiritually uplifting summer.
On the boyfriend/girlfriend topic, while students vary much in age and maturity, they all have one thing in common: They will be living in close quarters (whether in adjacent buildings, or across the hall) with members of the opposite sex. For the sake of the reputations of these programs it has been our policy for the last decade to ask boyfriends and girlfriends, if they both have a desire to join our programs, to join different programs. That will do much to slow down gossip. For that same reason, among others, we ask that students not begin dating relationships during the summer program with other members of the program.