Summer Camps & Activities

Various camps are available to our youth during the summer. Some of the past camps include:


Ceta Canyon** (Happy, Texas)
Camp Butman** (Merkel, Texas)
Camp of the Hills (Marble Falls, Texas)
**For these camps, FUMC requires parents to register and pay for their youth online through each camps' respective web site (click on the links above for more information). FUMC provides transportation to and from each camp, along with adequate adult supervision/participation throughout the camp.



Some of the annual summer retreats for The Crossover Youth Ministry include:

Lake Brownwood (Brownwood, Texas)
We stay at the State Park Beach Lodge and enjoy three days of water skiing, wakeboarding, tubing, kayaking/canoeing, and many other fun activities. Every morning and evening we engage in worship and a devotional to further our spiritual growth and love for Jesus Christ.
Rock the Desert (Midland, Texas)
This trip is a 3-day music festival of modern Christian music in the desert of Midland, Texas. Everyday is filled with non-stop popular Christian music and speakers who desire to see spiritual growth and life in the students and people to whom they minister.

Our Summer of Greatness schedule takes some of the regular Wednesday night youth services and moves them to various FUN places around Abilene during the summer. From Sonic volleyball, to paintball, to gaming at Prime Time, the FUMC youth meet at a different location on given Wednesdays to stay connected with one another and have fun.