On the eve of yet another church camp endeavor, I want to enter into this next week with a different mindset than I have before. I always tell myself that I am going to come to camp, be changed yet again, and make it my priority to fulfill everything God has planned for me. I come home and live how I should for two weeks, then fall back into my same old, same old – forgetting all I had prepared. My "spiritual high," if you will, is simple to maintain whenever I am surrounded by Jesus-fearing adults and campers attending church service every morning and night. The issue I continually face is when I return and begin to fall back into my old routine, which results in a return to my ungodly disposition.

This week is going to ensure permanent change because I am going to ensure God to solidify.

I want to return home and people not only ask me about my experiences, but discover how they not only altered me as an individual, but in my relationship with Christ. My biggest advocate is myself, and I want to make it my responsibility to show the world what God has done for me because that is the least I can do.

So let me be a spokesperson for every Bible-carrying, "How Great Thou Art"-singing, hand-motion-doing church camper that has ever graced the likes of this earth. We can be world changers. Although we are a select group, we are a loud group, and not for any of the wrong reasons, but because we invest an entire week of our summer dedicated to enveloping ourselves in everything Jesus, and that makes us distinct. We return to our humble abode screaming our camp theme song and others start to take notice. They notice our walk, how we talk, our attitude and how we treat others, and it affects them. It makes them wonder, "What the heck were they feeding them this past week?" And the answer, my dear friend, is the Holy Spirit. From breakfast to dinner, we were given huge helpings of what it takes to be a better Christian, and we enjoyed every bite.

But, campers, it is simple for us to be spiritually sound whenever we are encompassed in the likings of one another. We are each other's support system, but that comes when we pack up our vans and head back to our respective states. So take a few phone numbers, create a Bible study with those who might live in your hometown, post Bible verses throughout your hallways and dorm rooms. Be the difference that people expect from a person who just spent a week at church camp, but become the difference that no one expects from a Christian living in the today's world.

Because what happens at church camp should most definitely not stay at church camp.