By Brian Blackwell, Baptist Message staff writer
WOODWORTH, La. (LBM) – Individuals with special needs will experience a full slate of activities during the upcoming Champions Camp, Sept. 11-13, hosted by 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. In 2025 that number nearly doubled to 100 and already, there are 80 registrants for 2026 with expectations that it will surpass last year’s total.
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.
“Families that are impacted by special needs and disability are in all of our communities,” Anderson told the Baptist Message. “This camp is a great opportunity to partner our local churches with those families and offer them an incredible experience that will hopefully extend beyond the weekend of the camp.”
Register as a camper or as a “buddy” for a camper via talltimbersbcc.org/summercamps/champions-camp.
