Tri-Cities Workcamps, Inc. is a non-profit interdenominational organization established in 1987 by Rev. John & Connie Romaine. It serves to provide a Christian retreat & learning experience for high school teens and their leaders. Students spend a week this summer rebuilding homes & lives! Construct porches & wheelchair ramps while you reconstruct hope in families. Brighten up homes with new walls & paint while you brighten up lives.
At the end of the week, you & your youth group will have gained work skills plus a greater understanding of people & God's love. Most crews are made up of 6-7 people, depending on the size of the task. They mix crews so that each person from a student's church youth group is on a different work crew. They travel to work each day to the same home with the same crew. Each crew member has a job description that is decided upon within the crew on the first day of camp. The roles are: Quartermaster, Devotional Leader, Reporter, Breakmaster, and Work Director.
A local school serves as the Workcamp base for lodging, evening programs, & food services. Groups sleep in classrooms or in rooms built in the gym. Most students bring air mattresses or cots and sleeping bags. Breakfast, Dinner, & late-night snacks are served in the school cafeteria. Local businesses, churches, & civic groups, like Chester Rotary, adopt crews for lunch deliveries to the crews each of the 5 work days during camp.
