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Summer Staff Bonus Episode for 2026
May 26, 2026
44m 32s
PANIC Button! A Season 5 Finale
May 12, 2026
53m 08s
Character at Camp Success: Guest Episode with the ACA Character at Camp Team
Apr 28, 2026
59m 41s
10 Concepts to Create a Robust Summer Staff Support System
Apr 14, 2026
55m 02s
Word Association: Unpacking the Value of Creating Multiple Levels of Insights & Impact
Mar 31, 2026
51m 37s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/26/26 |  Summer Staff Bonus Episode for 2026✨ | summer campministry+3 | — | Sacred Playgrounds | — | summer staffcamp leaders+3 | — | 44m 32s | |
| 5/12/26 |  PANIC Button! A Season 5 Finale✨ | panicleadership+4 | — | — | — | panicleadership+5 | — | 53m 08s | |
| 4/28/26 |  Character at Camp Success: Guest Episode with the ACA Character at Camp Team✨ | character developmentcamp experiences+3 | — | American Camp AssociationCharacter at Camp Initiative+1 | — | charactercamp+5 | — | 59m 41s | |
| 4/14/26 |  10 Concepts to Create a Robust Summer Staff Support System✨ | summer staffsupport system+3 | — | — | — | summer campstaff support+3 | — | 55m 02s | |
| 3/31/26 |  Word Association: Unpacking the Value of Creating Multiple Levels of Insights & Impact✨ | insightsoutdoor ministries+4 | Jess Elfring-RobertsJessica Gamache | Episcopal Camps & Conference Centers | — | insightsimpact+5 | — | 51m 37s | |
| 3/17/26 |  5 Strategies to Lead Parents to Action✨ | parent engagementcamp registration+3 | — | — | — | parent actioncamp parents+3 | — | 51m 42s | |
| 3/3/26 |  Five Voices from the Field on Summer Staff Skill Building✨ | summer staffcamp leadership+3 | — | Camp WapoAlliance for Camp Health | Amery, Wisconsin | summer staffcamp leaders+3 | — | 51m 42s | |
| 2/17/26 |  The Camp Enrollment Cliff✨ | camp enrollmentdemographic shifts+3 | — | — | — | camp enrollmentdemographics+3 | — | 52m 25s | |
| 2/3/26 |  Summer Staff Journey Insights: How to Maximize Recruiting, Preparing, & Training Based on Staff Data✨ | summer camp staffrecruiting+4 | — | ACA Youth Impact Study | — | summer campstaff insights+5 | — | 1h 03m 05s | |
| 1/20/26 |  Pilgrimage on Purpose: Reflections from Mt. Sinai & Why Camp Can Be This Kind of Journey✨ | pilgrimagecamp+4 | Jake | — | Mt. SinaiEgypt+1 | pilgrimageMt. Sinai+5 | — | 47m 35s | |
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| 1/6/26 |  5 Camp New Year’s Resolutions for 2026 | Happy New Year, camp and camp-connected friends! It's 2026, and we're kicking off the new year with our annual installment of the New Year's resolutions for camp. On this episode, we'll share a fresh set of hopes and dreams for camp based on the latest research data and conversations with camp leaders. We'll talk through these 5 resolutions, and would love to hear your personal or ministry resolutions too! Here are a few curious key words for what we're lifting up in 2026: Net PositiveConnect... | 42m 58s | ||||||
| 12/23/25 |  A Mailbag & A Merry Christmas | As we release this episode, it's almost Christmas 2025! We're wishing you a very Merry Christmas from our sacred playground to yours. We're ever-grateful to share this space with you. On this (shorter) episode, we're taking a few moments to answer a handful of curious questions from camp leaders. We'll quickly explore things like staff kindness, phrases like "no margin, no mission", staying cool, and the future of tech. Yeah, quite the array. We'll leave you with a quick Christmas and end-of-... | 25m 32s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 |  Grownups Need Camp Too | It's true. Adults are a deeply important audience for your camp in one way or another - or more likely, in many ways. Not just as a donor, parent, or partner, but as one who can have personal, meaningful experiences at your camp. On this episode, we're talking about adult engagement at camp, especially in retreat and other year-round opportunities. We've got four reasons why adults belong at camp and, more frankly, need what your camp has to offer. Then, we'll talk through four ways how many ... | 51m 20s | ||||||
| 11/25/25 |  Breaking Down Breakdowns in the Camp Model | Camp is perfect, right? Right? At least, my camp is... You've thought it. So have we, and so has every camp enthusiast since the beginning of camp-time. And yet, we know that sometimes people have an experience that is less positive than we planned and prepared for. This likely doesn't mean everything at your beloved site is doomed, but it may mean something had or has broken down. On this episode, we're breaking down what happens when, for one reason or another (likely more than one), ther... | 52m 38s | ||||||
| 11/13/25 |  Live from the OMC Great Gathering: Insight-Driven Actions & Best of the Best Practices from Camp Leaders | Our team spent the week at the Outdoor Ministries Connection Great Gathering! It's been an incredible week connecting in person with 500+ of our closest friends. From insightful keynotes to leading and joining engaging workshops to creative worship and making new friends - we're feeling full, blessed, and inspired for the work ahead. On this episode of the #sacredplaygroundspodcast, we got the chance to bring in some voices of camp leaders at the gathering to ask them some big questions about... | 40m 54s | ||||||
| 10/28/25 |  Get On The Same P.A.G.E with Church Leaders & Parents | This is a cutting edge for outdoor ministry right now, and camps, when we understand our role as a catalyst, is poised to have an outsized impact on faith lives of countless campers and families. The connectivity in three sacred spaces - camp, church, and home - through program and practice, mission and method makes a profound difference in the faith-forming impact across this ecosystem. Through our work in four key projects (links below), we're learning a lot about how these critical spaces ... | 53m 11s | ||||||
| 10/14/25 |  Church Camp, The Book: Guest Episode with Author Cara Meredith | On this episode, we're excited to sit down with Cara Meredith, a lifelong camp enthusiast, experienced camp speaker, and author of the book Church Camp. This book has been stirring in many ways for Christian camp and camp-connected leaders, and we are grateful for the opportunity to sit down with Cara to hear the heart and story behind this book and the impact it is having. We'll ask some big questions and peel back what we can learn that can help us connect with our campers in ways that crea... | 48m 08s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 |  Camper Confidence Over Time: What We Learned from Summer 2025 Data | Each fall, early in our podcast season, we try to spend time talking through some of our, really your, learnings from the summer. We aggregate data from Effective Camp and Power of Camp projects - those that focus on campers and families - and run it through a variety of statistical and strategic lenses, including comparing this year to previous year's data. This allows us to uncover something deeply valuable in data and in decision-making - a trend. On this episode, we're looking at a few ke... | 40m 54s | ||||||
| 9/16/25 |  Behind the Scenes of the #OMCGG & Why Cross-Denominational Camp Partnerships Matter | If you've ever planned an event, fundraiser, conference, or other significant gathering, you know that there is so, so much that goes on behind the scenes to make that happen. On this episode, Jake and Jared are joined by the Co-Directors of the Outdoor Ministries Connection Great Gathering, Cat Holbert and Joanne Kovac-Roberts. These dynamic leaders guide the OMC Great Gathering planning team and the dozens of volunteers it takes to make this gathering happen. We'll ask some questions about ... | 47m 03s | ||||||
| 9/2/25 |  Season 5 Kickoff & Camp Leader Pulse Check Insights | We're back! Welcome to season 5 of the Sacred Playgrounds Podcast! On this episode, we've got some words of welcome, a quick summer in review from our Sacred Playgrounds team, and what to expect from this season. Then, we dive right into some impactful insights from our Post-Summer Camp Leader Pulse Check survey, where we asked camp leaders some simple but critical questions about how things went this summer. We got a great response from more than 100 camps and the findings can help us unders... | 46m 38s | ||||||
| 6/27/25 |  BONUS EPISODE for Summer Camp Staff | Bonus episode of the Sacred Playgrounds podcast! Summer camp staff, this one's specifically for you! It's mid-summer for many camps, or will be soon, so we're taking a few minutes to offer 3 things specifically for summer camp staff to encourage, equip, and embolden them for the rest of their summer of ministry. Camp leaders, be encouraged to carve out some time soon to listen to this episode with your staff, or send to them with a call to listen and then facilitate a quick conversation about... | 24m 21s | ||||||
| 5/13/25 |  Season 4 Finale: 2 Truths & An Untruth | It's the season 4 finale! So, we decided it's a good episode to play a classic camp game, with a sacred playgrounds twist. On this episode we're playing 2 Truths and An Untruth, often used as a get-to-know-you game at camp, in four rounds from the perspective of key camp audiences: campers, parents, directors, and summer staff. In each round, we'll share 3 statements, and your job as a listener is to identify which one is not true, and which two are true. Keep score! If you listen as a group,... | 33m 50s | ||||||
| 4/29/25 |  More or Less? 7 Up & Down Insights from the 2024-2025 OMC Director Survey | Some things are up, some things are down, some are holding steady, and it all has meaning and impact for how we can make informed decisions and tell impactful stories for this summer and in the months ahead. We've pulled out seven key insights from the 2024-2025 OMC Director Survey findings, and sharing the up, down, and steady movement we've seen when comparing to the last decade of findings from this survey. It's an exercise in identifying trends and discerning how to apply in your own mini... | 45m 31s | ||||||
| 4/15/25 |  Trending, Bending, or Ending: Camp Trends Over the Past 25 Years | The more things change, the more they stay the same? The only constant is change? If you’re not riding the wave of change, you’ll find yourself underneath it? Whatever your cliché du jour, the truth is, things aren't the same as they were a quarter century ago, and outdoor ministry is not immune to the shifts. On this episode, Jake and Jared welcome Chad Hershberger from Camp Mount Luther on to talk about trends in camp over the past quarter-century, and if those trends will continue (trendin... | 43m 00s | ||||||
| 4/1/25 |  The Key to Fostering Faithfulness in Summer Staff | Where will they find spiritual grounding, these summer staff members of ours? These emerging adults that truly make ministry happen at our camps; what does it take to equip and encourage practicing faithfulness in their lives while they are at camp, and foundational habits that last beyond our time with them? On this episode we'll talk about the key to fostering the kind of faithfulness in summer staff that not only affects their lives in lasting ways, but also brings the deepest impact to yo... | 45m 18s | ||||||
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