At the Camp Tecumseh YMCA Center we are well aware of what the world is like today. We are interested in employing persons that believe as we do - that in many ways our children are the keys to an improved world. We are interested in counselors that are the type of role model that a Mom or Dad would choose for their youngster. We want counselors who love to be with children and are committed to helping each boy or girl to feel good about themselves and to learn to get along with others!

Camp Tecumseh is a camp with a Christian Purpose. That purpose is symbolized by our motto, "God is First, the other fellow is Second, and I'm Third." We desire staff that believe in the core Christian beliefs (as listed below). We want staff who will do their best to conduct themselves with high Christian standards, both on duty and off. Staff who will be sure that the quality of any activity they would be associated with would be deemed acceptable in a Christian youth camp and/or local churches. (Such as relating to treating others with love [1 Cor. 13: 4-8a; Matt. 7: 12; Matt. 22: 37 – 39]; social and sexual behavior [1 Cor. 6: 9 – 10; Gal. 5: 22 - 23]; and unity [Romans 12: 4 – 5; John 17:21]. See scripture references below.)

Though we don't try to convert kids while they are at camp, we do lovingly try to help them grow in their spiritual understanding.

We believe that exposing youngsters to principles of leadership, group cooperation and environmental understanding is at least as important as learning to canoe or to shoot an arrow. We believe that staff as well as campers can grow in these areas.

We have a community that is against the use of drugs and smoking, excessive use of alcohol, and for building caring relationships based on mutual understanding.

Mutually accepted Core Christian Beliefs of Camp Tecumseh Staff, which we believe apply to all denominations.

1. We believe that God is a personal, loving and just God who is intimately interested in our lives.
2. We believe that God should be the most important one in our lives. Therefore we desire to know Him, serve Him, and please Him.
3. We recognize that God sent His Son Jesus Christ into the world to show us and teach us of the type of life that pleases God. We also recognize that He was sent to die on the cross and resurrect from the dead so that we might be reconciled unto God.
4. We recognize that the Spirit of God has been given to us to guide and help us live as Christ lived.
5. We believe that our bodies are the temple of God and must be respected and taken care of with that in mind.

** Scripture references, all taken from New American Standard Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a - Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

Matthew 7:12 - Therefore, however you want people to treat you, so treat them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 22:37–39 - And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. And a second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Corinthians 6:9–10 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:22–23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Romans 12:4–5 - For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

John 17:21 - That they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.