Camp Owaissi is an Anglican summer camp
which celebrates the presence of God
in young people and in the natural world,
and is dedicated to sharing the Gospel and nurturing the Christian life
in the context of a summer camp experience.
 

Because our mission can only be fulfilled through the working of the Holy Spirit, we are committed above all else to be an authentic Christian community in which that Spirit can be alive and active. It is our belief that a truly Sanctified community will be experienced as religious, but never as oppressive, intolerant, hypocritical or "preachy".
Our excellence as a camp - in our staff, programs and natural surroundings - is, in our view, simply a reflection on the human level of the activity of the Spirit, which empowers our camp to be not merely excellent but also holy and transformative.

Though our commitment to this vision is wholehearted, we know that our success in achieving it will always be partial. We pray for the courage to repent and return to God when we fail, and we thank God that the Spirit is alive and active despite the imperfections of human service.

1. Prayer
We acknowledge the centrality of worship and prayer in being open to the Spirit.

2. Faithful Service
We acknowledge that our primary task in manifesting the Spirit is not to focus judgementally upon others but rather to serve God faithfully ourselves. We do this by careful attention to:

• Love, which recognizes and celebrates the diversity, dignity and interdependence of all people, and indeed all Creation;
• Honesty, which cuts through the falsehood and self-deception that would deafen us to the Spirit; and
• Integrity, which gives us the courage to act in accordance with the Spirit, despite our fears and our limitations.

3. The Anglican Tradition
We acknowledge that to be faithful in prayer and in service we must be rooted and grounded in the Christian tradition, as expressed and understood within the Anglicanism that is our heritage.