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Lifeway campers give over $690,000 to support Southern Baptist missionaries

Each summer, kids, students and leaders at Lifeway’s summer camps are invited to give to support Southern Baptist missionaries, and this year, campers gave the highest missions offering since 2017.
  • September 24, 2025
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Lifeway campers give over $690,000 to support Southern Baptist missionaries

Each summer, kids, students and leaders at Lifeway’s summer camps are invited to give to support Southern Baptist missionaries, and this year, campers gave the highest missions offering since 2017.

Joe Walker, interim president and CEO of Lifeway Christian Resources, presented checks totaling $697,891.19 to International Mission Board president Paul Chitwood and North American Mission Board president Kevin Ezell during the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee trustee meeting on Monday, September 23.

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During the 2025 camp season, as Lifeway hosted more than 120,000 campers representing over 4,200 churches, their continued partnership with the IMB and NAMB allowed them to provide missions education and promote missional giving among kids and students at Lifeway camps.

In 2025, campers, camp staff and adult chaperones at FUGE Camps, CentriKid, Student Life Camp and Student Life Kids Camp across the nation gave $216,642.43 to NAMB and $481,248.76 to the IMB.

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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Marissa Postell Sullivan and originally published by Lifeway. 

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