Youth Camp Stories with Heath Mullikin: Recent Episodes
Heath Mullikin
Youth Camps are full of inspiring, comical, memorable, and life changing moments. These are those stories.
On this episode, Heath Mullikin shares about a beach trip where the youth pastor required anyone displaying a bad attitude to wear a wooden chicken around their neck. This culminated in a song being written about the trip.
On this episode, Deborah Rhodes talks about her introduction to Table Rock Wesleyan Camp and the weeks that sparked the love story between her and her husband, Matt. We often tell teens, "Camp relationships don't work" and while the Rhodes' relationship isn't technically a camp one it's still a beautiful story of how God moves in mysterious ways.
Zach McConnell was on campus once again with Mandi Smith to recruit students to the outstanding residency programs at Linwood and Ransom Churches in South Dakota. Zach has served as a youth pastor at a variety of churches and has experienced different district youth camps. On this episode, he shares about some of his experiences at Victory Mountain Camp(including the birth of the Guys Refuel Retreat) and Cedar Canyon camp. We are both big believers that camping ministry should be a foundational part of any youth ministry.
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Last year, our youth camp officially filled up on February 28. It was quite the miracle. This year we filled up on January 23rd! Here's the story.
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Alyssa McClung, a sophomore at Daniel High School, sat down with me at the Wesleyan Pastor's Gathering to talk about Table Rock Wesleyan Youth Camp. We discussed tubeamania and the mud pit along with her disappointment that Sumo wrestling got cut short due to a thunderstorm this year. Alyssa attends Trinity Wesleyan where her father, Mike, is the pastor. She co-hosts a podcast called But They Don't for the Pickens County Behavioral Health Services that you can find here. Alyssa sings on the worship team at church and loves eating ice cream with her friends.
Jam Patterson is the Associate Pastor at Foster Street Wesleyan Church in Asheboro, NC. He has served at Victory Mountain camp for decades and has a deep love for the camp and the camp staff. On this episode, he shares about some of his experiences as a young counselor-in-training(CIT) and about his ministry at Foster St.
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On this episode, I look back at how we used to run camp and how we got very little sleep. I’m glad things have changed to where a good nights rest is not uncommon during the week.
Matt LeRoy turned an awkward moment into an incredible and memorable message that indeed sent a shockwave through our camp. Part 1 of 2
On the heels of the Blair Witch Project we set out to make our own documentary style film one night.
What’s it like to get a concussion at youth camp? Wonder no more as Heath takes you on the epic journey of a concussion he will never forget.
Sometimes injuries can happen at youth camp and you have to make a trip to the hospital. Make sure you obey all the traffic laws. One time I didn’t and that was when I got pulled over in a church van.
One night we thought we heard a bear, and we definitely caught some girls who had snuck out. What or who was in the woods?!?! Listen to find out. Support the camp by going to www.Facebook.com/trwcalumni
This is the one. The story that inspired an entire podcast...and a generation. Never play cards and eat ice cream sandwiches at the same time.
In 2018, we arrived to the camp ground and a massive storm in town had caused a major power outage. Here’s what happened next.
Wes Boyd is affectionately known as “ C Wes I” following his exploits in this story where he amazed all of us with his detective skills.
In this inaugural episode, Heath Mullikin shares about the coldest night he ever experienced at youth camp and what’s to come from this podcast.