At Mikell, staff will work to help campers achieve the following goals:

Experience new independence and responsibility:
Specific activities – cabin duties, choosing activities, being away from home, camping duties at Outdoor camps

Outcomes – Campers will take responsibility during cabin cleanup duties; will be able to handle their own personal hygiene regiment, etc.

Do something they haven’t done before
Specific activities – Skit night, climbing tower, ropes course

Outcomes – Campers will try an activity they haven’t tried before such as one of the adventure activities, participating in a skit or jumping off the diving board.

Practice socialization away from parents or teachers
Specific activities – making friends in cabins, working together, dances

Outcomes – Campers will successfully make new friends on their own and learn to cooperate with their peer group through small group and cabin time.

Spiritual growth which enables them to deal with challenging spiritual and ethical issues
Specific activities – Morning program time, prayer time, and daily ethical issues

Outcomes – Campers will thoughtfully discuss spiritual issues, both those brought forth in structured Christian Education time as well as ethical issues that may arise in a cabin or camp activity.