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Explore your questions about camp, faith, and personal growth at Camp El Har Dallas 2012. Discover if the camp will deepen your relationship with God, offer a safe and fun environment to learn about Christ, and provide memories that last a lifetime.
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Camp El Har Dallas 2012
YOUR Camp Questions • Will it make a difference in my heart? • Is the schedule too full? • Will fun, faith and friendship and happiness happen? • What is the overall message that we want the boys to receive from the camp? • Will the boys develop a better relationship with God? • Will I develop a better relationship with God? • Will we get enough sleep? • Will I learn about Christ in a safe and fun environment? • Are we going to have confusion? • What will the food be like? • How can I gain the trust of my team? • Why am I worried about the safety of my team? • What do I do if one of my team members gets hurt? • Will the campers learn discipline and respect, and grow spiritually?
YOUR Camp Questions • Will there be adoration and confession? • Will I get hurt or will my brother get hurt? • Will it be fun and help me know Christ better? • Will I have fun and get to know Christ better? • Is it more talks or more playing? • Will there be more fun and more freedom? (hopefully) • How did I get here? • Will I be good enough? • Will I get closer to God? • What inspired the leaders to have this camp? • Will this camp be here next year? • Will we learn more about Christ?
YOUR Camp Questions • Why are the younger kids separated from the big kids? • Will I lose something? • Will I have fun? • Will this camp be fun and memorable? • Why are the rules and points system different among counselors? • Will I come out being a man? • Will I learn more about Jesus, God, ECyD, my faith, and myself? • Will I have fun while being a role model for the younger kids? (TL) • Will it be boring? • Why don’t I have questions? • Will I learn a lot? • What will we do? • How much closer will I grow to Christ? • Will I get stung or embarrassed?
YOUR Camp Questions • What if I get sick? • Will I grow in virtue? • What will I become after this camp? • Will this camp improve my relationship with God? • Will I become a better person to serve God? • Are we going to have it again? • Are we going to have a talk every day? • Will I be able to make peace? • What will happen to my Mom and sister while I am away? • Will this camp help me prepare to become a priest? • Will we get enough sleep? • Will I have a good time? • Will I help my kids have a great time? • Will I get homesick?
YOUR Camp Questions • When will the camp be next year so I can sign up?
What are your questions about God, life, yourselves, others?
YOUR Day 2 Questions • What virtues do I need to improve on? • Why in prayer do I not feel your presence, but in adoration I do? • Am I doing good, bad, getting better, or getting worse? • What do my family and friends really think about me? • Who or what started all of suffering? • Why does suffering exist around the world? • The church has so many laws, so why is it so hard to keep up with them? • Is my Dad in heaven, hell, or purgatory? • Is my Grandpa in heaven, hell, or purgatory? • Why do I feel empty inside? • What are you asking of me? • What are you asking of me Lord? • What is my vocation? • Will I go to heaven? • What will I do in the future? • Why did God allow suffering? • Why do you get persecuted if you are Catholic? • Why are the team leaders/counselors so good and nice? • Will I ever see God when I am on earth? • Am I a good kind? • Do my friends like me like I like them? • Will the world ever get rid of bad things like War?
YOUR Day 2 Questions • Am I a good Catholic? • What is it like in heaven? • What does God look like? • How does God hear our prayer? • What person will I become? • Am I to help the poor? • Could I help the church? • Why is there love and how does it work? • How does your family love you more than your friends? • How do you know when you have a friend? • Why are the poor judged so differently than the rich? • Will I become a priest? • Will my faith in God grow as I grow older? • Does this camp help me improve in life? • How will I prepare for when I get older? • How to be a good companion? • How can we stop the corruption? • How can I become closer to God? • How do I know if I have a vocation? • How do I know what to do when I’m under pressure? • Why would someone I know suffer and not I? • How can I teach others what I learned? • How are people so morally blind?
YOUR Day 2 Questions • Where will I end up and will it be where God wants me to be? If not, what would I do? • Is there a God? How do we know there is a God? Do you have proof there is a God? How do we know God isn’t made up? • How do we know there are not gods like zeus, the god of gods? • When I grow up, what will I be like? • Do I have true friends? • Do people know what they’re getting themselves into? • Am I living the faith to the fullest? • Why does he (God) not give us more exact answers to the mysteries we have to believe in our faith? • Why do people allow the world to have suffering, wars, and homeless people in the world? • How can God be three persons while remaining one person? • Why do my parents get stressed out about my grades? • (Under title of “any subject”) What is the square root of 5,280? • What would it be like if we weren’t alive? • What would it be like with no family? • How can I help the world? • What would it be like if I changed religions? • What do priest’s uniforms mean? • Why did you (God) put me here?
Your Day 2 questions • Will my friends and family always be here? • Why does suffering have to happen? • Will we have ice cream? • Am I good enough? • Am I being a good brother/friend? • How can I grow stronger in my faith? • Does God know whether a person is going to heaven or hell? • Do I live my family and friends enough and what can I do more? • Why is suffering necessary for salvation? • How can I grow in faith and help my church? • Will I have the strength to withstand all the temptations in life? • When will I feel the calling to my vocation, to the priesthood or to marriage? • Do the sufferings I offer to God make a difference to the people in purgatory? • Will I be spiritually strong enough to defend my faith in life? • Is God really looking out for me and providing? • Does he (God) love me after all I have done against him? • Will I mature to be a good husband ,father, or priest? • Will I be able to withstand the temptations of the devil?
Day 2 questions • Is there a special method for making it easier to confess, and if so what is it? • Why does he (God) let us suffer? • Why do I have what I have? • Who will I marry? • Why is there sickness or the poor, etc. • Why can’t everyone believe in the Catholic faith? • What will happen to me in my life? • How will I turn out? • Will the suffering in the world ever stop? • Will the church and my faith expand? • Will we have ice cream?
Day 2 questions (DADS) • Why is it that I struggle with the same spiritual issues? • Am I living a life that is pleasing to you? • How can I be a better example of a Christian? • Why so much suffering? • Why has there been the development of so called “Christian” religions that have some strange beliefs/doctrines; what are the implications? • What are some of the ways that the devil tricks us? That we are unaware of? • Why did God create man? • What was so wrong with the world that he had to send his only Son to die for us? • I’m glad about God’s presence in my life, but why does it feel like he was absent in my youth? • What is more important to God, that we serve our family first or our neighbors (community)? • Is God’s standard of what love is different from human standard? • I understand the source of evil but I don’t understand why it feels like satan is always winning the battles on earth? • My faith teaches me to love my enemies, but does that include satan and his demonic armies?
What are your questions about what it means to be a man; about what is true love.
Day 3 questions • Will I be a good man when I grow up? • How can I help my team to have a good time? • Will we be more mature? • What is a true man? • How old should you be to start dating? • How does it feel like being a teenager? • Does life become more challenging as I grow? • How do you know when you’re a man? • What does it take to be a man? • How is love so strong? • Why do girls act differently from boys? • Do girls think differently from boys? • How do you know when you’re dating someone? • How can you tell the difference between boyfriend and girlfriend and just friends? • Do we do different questions every day at camp? • What’s college like? • Why do men abuse their kids and wife when they get married? • Why do some girls settle for being abused and used by men? • What is the right age to date? • What is the right age to have a relationship? • Will I be mature and not perverted?
Day 3 questions • Will I survive to be a man? • Is it to early to have a girlfriend? • How come boys think wrongly when they see ‘hot’ girls? • When are we old enough to date? • Is there a God? • How do I know if I have a vocation? • How do I know what to do when I’m under pressure? • Why would someone I know suffer and not I? • How could I teach others what I’ve learned? • Where will I end up and will it be what God want s me to be? If not, what would I do? • How are people so morally blind? • What are the challenges about being a grown up? • Can you be scared but still loyal to qualify to be a man? • Will I ever find true love? • When should you start dating? • Do you have to be big and strong to be a man? • Why do we have to ask the girls? (and not the girls ask the boys out on dates) • How do I become a better man? • How do I know if it (love) is real? • Is being a teenager better than be young? • Is it fun to be a man? • Is it hard to remain pure?
Day 3 questions • Are girls annoying? • Is dating fun? • What are the other religions? • Will I get a girl friend? • Do girls like dating? • When will I kiss a girl? • How rich am I going to be? • Will it be fun once I’ve grown up? • How do you support a family? • If your wife is not pure, do you break up with her? • Do we get a movie? • What if I’m not strong enough to withstand all of my temptations in my teen life? • How can I show that I’m a man of God at this point in my life? • What can I do with such temptations in life? • How can I tell girls that I’m not interested in a relationship at this age without hurting them inside? • What is the difference between a date and just taking a friend (girl) to a movie or something?
