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Experience the best summer of your life and elevate your faith, friendships and fun.

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RIZE is a summer experience designed for incoming 4th-incoming 12th graders who are ready to have fun, grow spiritually, and learn how to rise above culture so you can lead boldly and live on purpose.

The mornings will be filled with games, classes and small groups to help you know what you believe and learn how to apply it. The afternoons will be filled with fun trips all around Massachusetts where we will hang out and serve people in need.

With optional mission and camp experiences, you can build your unique summer that works for your schedule!

The RIZE summer experience will make your school resume look incredible with leadership and character formation moments and will show satisfactory service requirements.

It’s something awesome and intentional to make you strong for the next school year and will build your love for God and give you the tools to live out your faith and rise above the pressures of your world.

And the whole summer ends with a totally awesome, insanely fun, can’t miss it STAY-CAY retreat right here in Boston to set your school year right!

Dates

Thursday, July 9
7:00pm–9:00pm
RIZE Night
All Students (Incoming 4th Grade–Graduated High Schooler)

Thursday, July 23
High School RIZE Night
7:00pm–10:00pm
High School Students Only (Completed 8th Grade–Graduated Seniors)

Tuesday & Thursday, July 28 & 30
9:00am–4:00pm
RIZE Middle School Experience
Middle School Students Only (Incoming 4th–Completed 7th Graders)

Saturday, August 1
RIZE at Six Flags!

8am-9pm
Open to All Incoming 4th Grade–Graduated Seniors
Tickets Required with Registration $$$

Thursday, August 13
RIZE Night
7:00pm–9:00pm
All Youth (Incoming 4th Grade–Graduated High Schoolers)
*We will have a special college send-off for those students heading to college in the fall.

Saturday, August 29
SHC Serve Day & RIZE Back-to-School Bash
All Day Fun!
All Youth (Incoming 4th Grade–Incoming Seniors

Optional
Add-On
Experiences

High school
Mission Trip

We are accepting applications for 5 high school guys and 5 high school girls to attend and serve as counselors at Camp Barnabas.

Serving at Camp Barnabas is a powerful opportunity to love others the way Jesus does, with joy, patience, and purpose. Camp Barnabas creates a life-giving environment for individuals with special needs, and our students have the privilege of serving as encouragers, helpers, and friends.

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Through this experience, students learn compassion in action, grow in leadership, and discover that serving others doesn’t just change lives, it changes your own. It’s a hands-on way to live out faith, build character, and step outside yourself to make an eternal impact.

Logistics

Dates: July 27th  - July 31st 2016
Transportation:
Students will travel with adult leaders by air to St Louis, MO.
Cost: $1050
Includes all transportation, meals, and lodging.

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PK Vacay

PK Vacay is a summer experience created specifically for pastors’ kids, students who grow up in church leadership homes and often carry unique pressure, expectations, and responsibility. This year, we are opening this trip exclusively to RIZE students because of their dedication to service and spiritual formation.

PK Vacay gives students the chance to step away from the spotlight, rest, have fun, and just be a kid, surrounded by other students who get it. Through worship, community, intentional teaching, and unforgettable experiences, students are reminded that their identity comes before their role.

Students leave PK Vacay with:

  • A deeper, more personal faith
  • New friendships with peers who understand their world
  • Space to breathe, laugh, and reset
  • Fresh confidence in who God says they are — not just what they do

PK Vacay is powerful because it meets ministry-minded kids where they are and reminds them:

You are seen. You are valued. And you matter — not because of what you DO, but because of WHO you are.

Logistics

Dates: June 23-26  
Transportation: Students will travel with adult leaders by air to Dallas, TX, stay one night as a group in an Airbnb, and the travel by chartered bus from Grapevine, TX to Hawkins, TX to Allaso Ranch where PK vacay is hosted.
Cost: $750
Includes all transportation, meals, and lodging

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Important Dates

High School Mission Trip
Deadline

April 1

50% non-refundable deposit due at time of registration. Remaining balance due by July 1.

PK Vacay
Deadline

April 1

50% non-refundable deposit due at time of registration. Remaining balance due by July 1.

Summer Week Registration
Deadline

June 1

$100 non-refundable registration fee due at registration. $50 payments can be paid weekly by Friday, first payment due June 12.

Help Keep StayCay Affordable and Fun!

Parents and young adult leaders are necessary to keep this experience as affordable as possible. We need volunteers to help with occasional teaching, small group leading, chaperoning, host homes for the StayCay retreat and drivers in the afternoons.

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617 467 4548
1037 Chestnut Street Newton, MA 02464

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