During staff orientation, all counselors and wranglers are taught specific verses to encourage campers that accepting Jesus isn't the final step; they now start a life walking with Him. Campers are encouraged to join the Mailbox Club, where they can consistently send in Bible lessons and receive personal notes back.  As a counselor, I also focus my last devotion or two of the week on the topic of living out their faith, praying that they will use these tools to further their relationship with Christ. Finally (this is not every counselor), I send occasional letters, Facebook messages, or texts to my campers, and if they respond I try to use that as a discipleship tool.   

Many of the kids come from homes where they feel very unimportant or unloved, so spending time with them, gaining their trust, demonstrating love and showing them verses of God's abounding love for us are key.  I would say that this is a topic that comes up with hurting kids more than any other topic, and all counselors are strongly encouraged to point the kids toward God's love for them individually.  I believe that this is a very important thing to stress to the campers, and I usually even talk about this in my Gospel presentation (as all staff are encouraged to do during staff training week).  

The ultimate outcome is always to see unsaved campers come to Christ and to see campers who are believers deepen their relationship with Jesus.  We desire to see kids and teens automatically look to God for help during their troubles and begin to heal from the hurts that they have gone through.  

How will we know if we succeeded? It will be measured by observing changed lives. Although the camp keeps track of how many kids commit or rededicate their lives to Christ, God is the one who knows the true numbers.  If we all, as counselors, press on toward the goal of loving our campers and sharing Jesus with them in countless ways, I consider it a success and a life that God can use.  Personally, the only weeks that I regret are weeks that I failed to give 100% of myself to the kids for whatever reason, and I look back knowing that I could have loved them better or shared Christ more clearly.  However, even in my weakness and failure, I know that God can still use me (and every other counselor).  I've been blessed to see Him work in the lives of my campers even in the weeks when I struggled.