Animate is a summer camp in worship and the arts for teenagers and their adult mentors.
Animate is Samford's Center for Worship and the Arts original summer camp in worship and the arts for teenagers and their adult mentors that takes place on the campus of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
Mentoring young people to become faithful worshippers lies at the heart of the Animate philosophy. Through Animate, teenagers become conversant in multiple styles and expressions of worship, connect with both adult mentors as well as their peers, and catch a vision for intergenerational worship – then carry these new skills and ideas back to enrich the life of their own church congregation.
Ministry Leaders – gather a group of student musicians, vocalists, visual artists, dancers, poets, preachers, actors, and all other aspiring creatives – along with staff and lay leader adults committed to helping mentor faithful worshipers of Jesus. Through Animate, get immersed in rich worship experiences, thoughtful teaching, and practical how-to sessions, so that you can have a group of young adults who don’t regard themselves as the church of the future, but the Church of right now!
“Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.”--1 Timothy 4:12
