Junior High Camp
Junior High Camp is a camp geared towards incoming 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th graders. We strive for our youth to leave with a sense of relationship to Christ through tangible and practical life applications. In addition, we encourage their growth towards outreach through their local churches and leadership in their own communities.
Lauren Takaichi
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Lauren grew up attending Wesley UMC in San Jose, where she has served as the middle school ministry director for the past year. She is currently finishing up her last year at UC Santa Cruz where she is pursuing degrees in biochemistry and psychology. Lauren has attended JHC as a camper, counselor, and now director. For her, JHC was the spark that showed her the restorative power of church, faith, and family. She looks forward to connecting with and helping the youth explore their faith. She loves returning back to this camp, and she hopes to extend that same feeling of love, welcomeness, and acceptance that brought her to JHC to all who serve and attend this camp.
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Contact: laurent.jhc@gmail.com
Kirk Inouye
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Kirk Inouye has helped with youth ministries at a handful of our NJAUMC camp churches. He is currently living in LA. In their free time he can either be found playing video games or at Disneyland. Camp has always been important to them since their very first year and they enjoy coming back year after year to continue giving back to the camp communities.
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Contact: kirinokaku@gmail.com