Woodmont Students

Nashville Workcamp Schedule and Info

We’re less than three weeks away from Nashville Workcamp! Can you believe it?!

What you will find below is just about everything you need to know if you, or your child, are attending Workcamp. Comment at the bottom to let us know if you have any additional questions.

Workcamp begins Sunday, June 3rd. Vans will be leaving from Woodmont at 3:30pm to West End Church of Christ where we will have crew meetings, get assignments, & worship God together to prepare us for the week ahead.

Monday-Thursday Schedule:

7:30 AM     Vans leave Woodmont for West End
8:00 AM      Morning Wake-UP
9:00 AM      Work at Sites
NOON         Lunch & Devo at Sites
3:00 PM      Return to West End
3:30 PM      Afternoon pick-up at Woodmont
(Students can stay during this break, but they need to make arrangements and bring soap, shampoo, change of clothes, etc. to shower at the building)
5:30 PM      Vans leave Woodmont for West End
6:00 PM      Evening Meal/Worship at West End
8:30 PM      Wrap Up/Go Home & Sleep!
9:00 PM      Pick-up from Woodmont

Workcamp concludes at West End on Friday night, June 8th, with an informal banquet, media presentation, and a period of praise & thanksgiving.  We expect to conclude by 9:00pm on Friday night, so pick-up from Woodmont will be closer to 9:30.

Additional info:

• Each student will be responsible for bringing his/her own 4″ paint brush, spray bottle, heavy duty paint scraper, and work gloves.
• We will need to borrow ladders (step and extension) for the week, so if you have ladders we can borrow, please let us know.
• Lunches are not provided and need to be packed for each day. Put the lunch in a plastic bag with the camper’s name on it, because lunches will be kept on ice in coolers along with the other members of the crew. (Often, crew leaders will plan to go somewhere to eat lunch one day during the week. Make sure your camper lets you know about this, so you can send money instead of a lunch.)
• Campers will get paint on their clothes, plan accordingly.
• Campers must wear closed-toe shoes, no exceptions.
• Wear sunscreen.
• During the afternoon break, we encourage families who live close and are able to pick up their campers to do so. Showers are limited at the building, and clean-up will be much quicker if campers are able to go home.
• Campers that are not picked up in the afternoon will be supervised, but they will need to make arrangements to bring soap, shampoo, towel, change of clothes, etc. at the beginning of the day.
• Nightly dinners at West End are included in the cost.
• Crews consist of teens from various youth groups from around the region. Crew assignments are more-or-less randomly generated to create diversity. This provides a wonderful opportunity to make connections with teens outside of our youth group.
• Each crew will have around 10-20 campers and two or three crew leaders. There are also “sector leaders” that check in with crews throughout the day.
• We are excited to be taking 30 students to Workcamp. David, Jesse, and the four interns will all be participating as crew leaders.
• If special arrangements need to be made to pick up or drop off a camper from their work site, be sure your camper gets their crew leaders’ contact information. They will receive the address of their work site along with their crew assignments on Sunday night.

Again, please comment below if you have any additional questions. Thank you!