Are You Closing Jesus Camp Down?

First of all "Jesus Camp" is merely the name of the movie that has been receiving so much attention. Our camp was actually called "Families on Fire Summer Camp." It was a once a year, three day event. We did not own our own camp ground, but merely rented the facilities from the North Dakota Assemblies of God denomination for this once a year event.

Due to some vandalism at the camp ground where some windows were broken out causing about $1500 worth of damage which could be directly linked to negative reaction to the movie, and another incident this past summer where some people came to our camp after they heard about the movie, and required having the sheriff remove them from the property for harassing our campers, the camp owners have understandably asked us not to return for awhile.

But the news media has made it sound like this is shutting down our whole ministry. Nothing could be further from the truth. We will simply replace this one event with a different one, probably a conference of some type. As a ministry, we are stronger than ever, and have more invitations to minister than ever before. But somehow that information is always buried at the bottom of the media reports, if it's mentioned at all.