Our mid-year church camp's theme is "true love awaits", and as the name suggests, it's about "how to love". As one can guess, the promotion so far seems to suggest that while it is not exclusive to couples, it is significantly focused on these relationships.
Apart from the obvious theological issues of asking an anthropocentric question of "how do WE love", I have been wondering whether this is an insensitive and inappropriate theme for a combined church camp.
Within any church, including ours, there is a mixture of singles and couples, and I do wonder whether having a COMBINED camp that focuses on couple relationships does little more than to rub in the fact that the singles are single. Yes they have said that the camp is not just for couples, but the promotional material seems to suggest that singles are more of a "not uninvited" group.
Perhaps it's just been the way it's been promoted, and the actual camp isn't about about couple relationships. But looking at the way it's been going, it seems like it's going to be more segregating than unifying.
Apart from the obvious theological issues of asking an anthropocentric question of "how do WE love", I have been wondering whether this is an insensitive and inappropriate theme for a combined church camp.
Within any church, including ours, there is a mixture of singles and couples, and I do wonder whether having a COMBINED camp that focuses on couple relationships does little more than to rub in the fact that the singles are single. Yes they have said that the camp is not just for couples, but the promotional material seems to suggest that singles are more of a "not uninvited" group.
Perhaps it's just been the way it's been promoted, and the actual camp isn't about about couple relationships. But looking at the way it's been going, it seems like it's going to be more segregating than unifying.
4 comments:
i thought it was about finding true love, i.e. that not of human origin..but i would agree in that it seems to be promoted otherwise. To some extent it does segregate but what can you do, 1. because the theme has kinda been set in stone, and 2. there's plenty of stuff that happens, subconscious or not that could also constitute "rubbing it" in people's faces.
I thought it's mainly for singles to find their true love and learn on how to wait.
So, it's not much for married couples like me who doesn't really need to wait for true love to appear. If I'm, I would be really worried.
At least that's how it's promoted in the Chinese side.
Well I'm not in the committee or have any special inside knowledge of what's happening with the actual camp.
But to shawn - here's how it was promoted: a 5minute slideshow of abby and jimmy talking about how to love one another as a couple.
The idea of learning to love God was thrown in as a single line...kind of a "get out of jail" card almost :P
Both have mentioned about what is true love from God - but honestly as an "outsider" almost, that message has been totally lost so far.
Regardless of theme...camps/conferences have a natural tendency to establish romances, crushes and puppy love.
Extraction from natural habitat to one which has less 'walls' ---> easier hook up?
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