YL Capernaum Everywhere

Having a Capernaum Interest Meeting in your area?  Or helping a neighboring area with one? Here’s a great Interest Contact Card that you can print and have available for folks to fill out, making follow-up as simple as possible!

From the moment her leader, Jenna, showed Sequoia the camp video, she was "in". It didn’t matter that she didn’t know what Young Life was, she was going to camp. Her excitement for camp increased as she began coming to our new Capernaum events.  The day to leave for camp finally came, and after a long bus ride, we arrived in a serious rain downpour, which meant we couldn’t do many activities the first afternoon But the next day when Sequoia woke up, the first thing she said was, “Swimming pool?” She had a blast with so many new and fun activities!  Sequoia also participated in profound ways during cabin time. After our camp speaker, John, shared about Jesus’ death and resurrection we asked our cabin “Who is Jesus to you?” Without hesitation Sequoia was the first to answer and said, “Jesus saved my life.”  Later in that same cabin time she wrote this to God: “Dear God, thank you so much for Jesus and the cross, love, family, swimming pool, and carnival games.”

Thank you Tucson Capernaum Young Life, for this story! This past winter Justin attended Winter Camp at YL’s Lost Canyon. Justin has been participating in a Young Life club that is intentionally including students of all abilities together. Two of the Young Life leaders, James and Paul, have been investing in Justin and worked hard to overcome any obstacles in order to get him to Camp. At camp, Justin heard the Gospel for the first time. In his own words, "I felt loved at winter camp and found peace there. Not only that, I found Jesus too. The speaker told us to go outside and lay down and wait for a call from Jesus. I heard that call and that night I answered it.” The next morning when our speaker invited kids who said yes to Jesus for the first time to stand,  stood up alongside his leader James. Suddenly, four of his peers from his cabin noticed that Justin was standing, so they stood up to be with him. When it was Justin’s turn to say his name and that he said yes to Jesus, hi