I want to grow in the base of my faith and develop a better foundation. I feel that in order to be able to stand up for myself and my beliefs I really need to know what they are and I know I don't have that all figured out yet. I also am really interested in going into the performing arts as a career and I know that is an especially hard place to stay firm so I feel the importance in discovering answers and developing the tools to find answers on my own is a necessity. I have also been doing the Truth Project with some of my high school friends and would love to face these topics with others exploring each other's answers and seeing different sides of the story with peers. I feel that conversations like these are great growing tools, as well as practice for the greater world.

I hope to learn how to more cohesively express myself and my opinions, to find and nail down my own answers in the Bible, and to be able to not only discuss but defend my opinion. 

Base Camp costs about $800 per student. Faith Ascent's donors and corporate sponsors already covered half of these costs. Thank you for making a tax deductible donation towards the remaining half! 

Base Camp is 5 days and 4 nights of strategic preparation for the challenges and opportunities college bound Christians will be presented with. In a real college environment our expert teaching team will answer the tough questions Christian teens are asking (and being asked). Questions including but not limited to:

- Is all truth relative? What about moral or religious "truths"?  
- Does science contradict or compliment Christianity's creation account? 
- Are our Bible's reliable and accurately copied? How do we know? 
- Were the Biblical authors telling the truth? How do we know? 
- Was the resurrection a real historical event? How do we know?
- Was the Jesus messiah narrative plagiarized from earlier pagan myths?   
- What exactly is the Christian gospel? What are false gospels? 
- Are Christian sexual ethics outdated and bigoted? (Hint: NO!)
- What do people of other religious faiths actually believe?
- What do agnostics and atheists actually believe? 
- What does evangelism and witnessing look like in a post-Christian culture?