By Baptist Message staff
WOODWORTH, La. (LBM) – Individuals with special needs will experience a full slate of activities during the upcoming Champions Camp, Sept. 5-7, at the Tall Timbers Baptist Conference Center, Woodworth.
The camp will match participants with buddies who will accompany them throughout the weekend. The camp will feature games, activities, crafts, karaoke, worship and Bible study designed for children and adults, ages 8 and up, who have intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Champions Camp began with 20 participants in 2018 and surged to 55 campers in 2024. Already, there are 87 registrants for 2025.
Champions Camp Director David Anderson, who also serves as the Louisiana Baptist children’s ministry strategist, had always dreamed of bringing the camp to Louisiana so people with special needs like his daughter, Chloe, could have a chance to experience camp like so many others.
Anderson has been blessed to see the camp grow and to further fulfill his goal of expanding opportunities for individuals with special needs to experience spiritual enrichment at events hosted just for them.
“I love all that I get to do in my ministry; however, this camp has a special place in my heart,” Anderson told the Baptist Message. “To get to truly worship and study the Bible along people with very few inhibitions can change one’s perspective on many things.
“Also, getting to see our Champion friends experience all of the things that camp entails just brings joy to my heart,” he continued. “Families can attend with their Champion or bring them, let us match them with a buddy, or do a combination of those experiences. This year our camp has some amazing experiences scheduled for our Champions with disabilities to enjoy camp.”
Register as a camper or as a “buddy” for a camper at talltimbersbcc.org/summercamps/champions-camp/.
