AWFR RULES
Rules, rules, rules, they are everywhere--including
AWFR. Rules, regulations, policies, and
guidelines (hereinafter referred to as RRPG) are being established for the
following purposes:
1. Safety: To insure the safety of all campers.
2. Freedom: To protect the freedom of all campers.
3. Privacy: To protect the privacy of all campers.
4. Rights: To protect the rights of all campers.
5. Property: To protect the property of all campers.
6. Respect: To guarantee respect for each and every
camper.
7. Goals: To insure that the all camp goals are met
without disturbance.
Camp Rules
and Freedom: Camp RRPG
are not intended to restrict the freedom of campers. They are intended to protect the freedom of campers.
Camp Rules
and Common Sense: The
non-existence of a written RRPG does not imply a camper's right to do anything
he wants simply because an intended action is not prohibited in writing. Common sense considers the possibility that
many actions not covered in writing would be in violation of any one of the
seven purposes set forth above.
However, if a camper lacks common sense in any given situation, a rule
can be verbally established immediately by the teacher in any classroom for the
purpose of maintaining the integrity of that classroom to reach its intended
purposes and goals.
Location
and Leader: For camp
purposes, the location of any
scheduled activity will be referred to as a classroom, and the leader of any scheduled activity will be
referred to as a teacher.
Before Arrival at Camp: Know the Rules before Coming to Camp
1. All
campers should have read and understood all rules before arriving at camp.
2. Pastors
and/or parents/guardians should encourage campers coming from their church/home
to cooperate with camp staff at all times.
RRPG
The following RRPG are set forth to guide all campers
enrolled in AWFR:
1. Obey all rules, regulations, policies, and
guidelines.
2. Follow the schedule associated with your camp
level.
3. Participate in all activities scheduled for
your camp level.
4. Junior
and Teen campers will not go outside their sleeping quarters between the hours
designated "In Room" and 7:00 A.M. unless authorized to do so by the
Room Counselor.
5. The
physical safety of ever camper is paramount, therefore, horseplay of any sort
will not be tolerated. The following
actions are considered horseplay:
playful hitting, playful punching, towel-popping, shaving cream
"fights", pillow "fights".
(This will be expanded if common sense is lacking.)
6. Running
inside of any campsite building is prohibited unless connected with a
recreational activity.
7. After registration has been completed, campers
are not permitted to leave the campus without authorization from the Camp
Marshall.
8. After
arrival at camp, driving on campgrounds is prohibited unless authorized by the
AWFR Camp Marshall.
9. On
the final day of camp, all Junior and Teen Campers are required to check out at
the registration desk.
10. Show respect for every camper.
11. Touching a personal possession of any camper
without the owner's permission is prohibited.
12. Food and drinks are not permitted in the
worship or classroom areas.
13. Music:
CD players, MP3 players, radios, and TV's are prohibited at camp unless
authorized by the Camp Director for use in a scheduled camp activity. (See “Life Is Tough”)
14. Games:
All battery-operated games are prohibited at camp. (See “Life Is Tough”)
Life Is
Tough
Life is
tough, and now is the time to learn to do some hard things because you will not
always be able to have things your way; therefore, the two preceding rules have
been established to strengthen youthful campers in the area of doing the hard
thing.
15. Dress code:
Certain clothing worn by young people today is faddish. The question for Christian youth to consider
is not what's wrong with faddish clothing.
The question is what is right with it.
There is nothing right with clothing which tends to excite improper
passions and desires. For this reason,
guidelines must be established for young ladies to be confronted with a
suitable Christian standard for acceptable dress. In like manner, certain guidelines must be established for young
men to be confronted with a suitable Christian standard for acceptable
dress. For these reasons, the following
guidelines are established:
·
Clothing will not be permitted whose lettering or picturing
alludes to, promotes, or advertises drugs, alcohol, tobacco products, or has a
sexual connotation.
·
Immodest apparel described:
(girls) short-shorts; short tops or low-cut pants that expose a bare
mid-riff; any type of clothing that exposes one's undergarments (male or
female); young men's pants/shorts, with or without a belt, that are worn low
enough to expose undergarments--no matter how creative or picturesque they may
be--are inappropriate. (Camp staff will
not entertain the question, "What's wrong with it?" The question will always be, "What's
right with it?" and the only acceptable answer is one that promotes the
standard of Christ-likeness from either a young man or a young woman.)
(Concerning an exposition of 1
Timothy 2:9-10, In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest
apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or
pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with
good works (KJV), Barnes Notes say:
"The true idea here is, that
her attention to her appearance should be such that she will be offensive to no
class of persons; such as to show that her mind is supremely fixed on higher
and more important things, and such as to interfere with no duty which she
owes, and no good which she can do, either by spending her time needlessly in
personal adorning, or by lavishing that money for dress which might do good to
others, or by neglecting the proprieties of her station, and making herself
offensive to others." [from Barnes' Notes])
16. Worship Service
and Classroom Conduct
(Unnecessary movement and
unnecessary talking during a worship service or classroom activity is
absolutely disrespectful toward the teacher and classmates, therefore, the
following rules are set forth.)
A. Campers
should not talk while being addressed by a speaker/teacher.
B. Unless personally addressed or being led in
music, campers should remain quiet, respectful, and attentive during worship
and teaching sessions.
C. The
restroom should be used prior to the worship service and classroom times.
D. All campers will come to worship services and
Bible studies with a Bible, paper, and a writing implement.
17. Camp Property
and Facilities
A. Due
to the time of the year, there will be no swimming in the pool or lake.
B. The campground and sleeping quarters will be
left in the manner in which they were found at the beginning of camp.
18. Sleeping quarters will be cleaned and
bunks/beds made every morning before “Room Inspection” time. These rooms will be inspected each morning
by the Camp Marshall, and campers who fail to make their bunk/bed or clean
their area of the room return to their room to accomplish the task until
completed in a manner satisfactory to the Camp Marshall. (This is just a matter of early training in
preparation for some of the more difficult assignments in life.)
19. Campers will leave the camp at the close of
camp only after until their rooms and campgrounds are in proper order. Proper order is the order in which it was
found upon arrival.
20. A camper will be held financially
responsible for any breakage or destruction of camp property.
21. PHONE CALLS/CELL PHONES: Only emergency calls will be permitted from
camp. All cell phones will be turned-in
to the Camp Nurse at the beginning of camp.
If an emergency call is needed, the camper will be given his/her cell
phone to make the call. The Camp Nurse
or Camp Marshall will determine if the circumstance is an emergency. No social calls will be deemed an
emergency. Parents will be able to
reach their camper any time of the day or night by placing a call to the camp. A message will be given to the camper being
sought, and the camper will be permitted to return the call.
22. The "QUIET" rule: After "lights out," the intent is
for all campers to get a good night's rest for the purpose of preparing
themselves for the next day's scheduled activities. For this reason, talking or consciously initiating any kind of
action or noise that prohibits an environment suitable for sleep, will be
considered a disturbance in the
sleeping quarters. The camper who is
guilty of violating this rule will be asked by the room counselor the
appropriate responsible thinking question, "What are you doing?" After the camper responds appropriately to
that question, a second question will be asked, "Do you want to work with
me and remain quiet for the remainder of the night?" If the answer is "yes," the camper
will be allowed to remain in the sleeping quarters. If, however, the camper violates the rule a second time or says
"no" after being asked "Do you want to work with me," the
camper will have demonstrated a personal choice to leave his assigned sleeping
quarters and to go directly to the Responsible Thinking Sleeping Area
(hereinafter designated RTSA)--a sleeping area designed to accommodate
disruptive campers until the RTC opens the next morning. This should not be considered
punishment. It is a demonstration of
respect for those who need a good nights rest without further disturbance. Since a disruptive camper’s plan is
negotiated with the room counselor upon the availability of that counselor, it
is understood that this counselor is not available during sleeping hours.
Campers who have chosen to go to
the RTSA will follow all camp rules associated with the general camp sleeping
quarters. These campers are responsible
to report to the RTC as soon as opens after the morning breakfast. A plan, if made, will be negotiated with the
room counselor as soon as he is available.
This camper will not be permitted to return to his assigned sleeping
area until the room counselor accepts the camper's plan.
23. If a camper is in either the RTC or RTSA,
and creates a disturbance in the respective classroom, it is obvious that the
camper has no desire to work with the camp administration to permit the normal
function of the camp toward achieving its purposes and goals; therefore, this
camper, by his actions, has demonstrated a desire to be dismissed from camp,
and the camp administration has not other choice but to permit this camper to
be prematurely dismissed from camp.
24. If a camper chooses to be prematurely
dismissed from camp, the camper can return to camp whenever he chooses;
however, he must return to the area from which he chose to leave, either the RTC
or RTSA. It is from this area that he
will prepare a plan with the intent of negotiating his return to the classroom
from which he initially chose to depart.
Throughout this entire process, the camper is always in control of his
own destiny. He is never punished,
ridiculed, maligned, or criticized. He
will be loved and given the needed assistance to become a camper that respects
the freedom and rights of all other campers.
Again, he is always in control of his own destiny--choose to follow the
RRPG or choose RTC or RTSA or choose to be dismissed from camp. The choice is always his.