The Board of Directors for Camp Quest Texas is seeking sponsoring organizations to fund camperships for our 2012 Summer Camp!
We work hard throughout the year to bring forth our best ideas in making our Summer Camp a fun and educational experience, allowing campers to grow. We host philosophy discussions (like Socrates Café) where we encourage campers to continuously ask while formulating their own opinions. Our Summer Camp teaches campers how to think, not what to think.
Counselors and other volunteers work hands-on with campers in conducting science experiments, fostering language development, and cultivating a zeal for natural discovery. By encouraging campers to examine and question the natural world around them, we aim to build upon their knowledge and equip them with critical thinking skills that will be applicable long after camp ends.
Of course, the primary goal of our Summer Camp is to provide campers with a haven away from home where they can find new and old friends. We also make fun a high priority, with swimming, hiking, races, and games all being part of the Summer Camp experience.
While we prepare for this year's Summer Camp, we are also receiving many pleas for financial assistance from deserving families. Many come from families who live in remote rural communities, where the only contact with other freethinking kids would come from our Summer Camp. Although we try to accomodate as many requests as possible, the need is too great, and our funding is limited.
For $500, your organization can sponsor a campership to this year's Summer Camp. Just $5 from each of your 100 most generous members would make the difference in the life of a kid who doesn't have any non-religious friends, and feels isolated by their familiy's atheism.
If your organization is interested in providing support for a child in your community or around the state of Texas, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Thanks for your generosity!
2012 Sponsoring Organizations:
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Shown here is Joe Eversole with Jasmine, one of our 2011 winners. |
As a young adult, it is important to define your identity. The first step in cultivating a strong identity with strong solid relationships is to express yourself in your values, goals, visions, and the decisions you make. Establishing your own personal identity will help you to fulfill your dreams and will aid you and your family in happy lives as well as making significant life choices and be better able to navigate and conquer obstacles and problems that may arise.
As we all know, the purpose of Camp Quest Texas and its staff is to provide children of freethinking parents an experience which is dedicated to improving childrenʼs lives through rational inquiry, critical and creative thinking, scientific method, self-respect, ethics, competency, democracy, free speech, and the separation of religion and government guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.
As adults we have learned through the years, that the best possible way to help our children is to help them establish “self esteem” which begins at a very early age. Helping our children to develop a positive self image is an important task for todays parents. Children model after people they respect. By starting early, we give our children a gift that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives. Our goal is to nourish each childʼs individual talents and spirit. Get them to stay in touch with their feelings, explore new ways of dealing with outside influences and to increase their sense of trust and kindness.
For the past two years, we've sponsored the “Eversole Memorial Scholarship Fund,” and we are sponsoring one campership to Camp Quest Texas again this year. Campers who wish to participate will need to submit their application by June 30, 2012. No late registrations will be accepted. This campership is open to all interested campers with no age limit. Final judging will be conducted by Joe and Mary Eversole.
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Best wishes,
