Youthfront is the place where kids can explore their faith, learn about Jesus and have fun in a safe, loving environment. Summer Staff are role models and leaders and you’ll impact all ages of our campers, from first graders to high schoolers.
Grow in your own relationship with God as you walk alongside campers, showing them the many ways they are loved and cherished by God. You’ll engage in unique cabin and worship activities that help you and campers experience Christ’s message.
Working alongside each other all summer builds strong and meaningful friendships that sustains, strengthens and bonds staff long after camp ends. Camp staff becomes family and many relationships last a lifetime.
Yes, Summer Staff is fun, but it’s also hard work. You’ll build the hard and soft skills that future hiring managers will value – and learn a lot about yourself in the process! Our summer staff grow as leaders, gaining confidence for life after college.
Youthfront’s Day Camp program and Overnight Camp are held at Camp West in Edgerton, KS. From cabin leading, lifeguarding, and grounds to photography and marketing, we’ve got an array of summer positions to fit your interests and skills!
Many of our roles can be structured with or designed to pair with an onsite internship for credit or noncredit. Past Summer Staff have completed marketing, graphic design and business internships while working in a variety of paid camp roles.
2023 Cabin Leader
“I have made some of the most amazing friends ever this summer. I have friends that I know I’m going to be in their weddings and they know they’re going to be in mine. It is, for lack of a better term, like being in the trenches with people and I feel like you form the most intense bonds. We were just talking about this other day, it’s like there are so many things about being at a camp and working together at this place that you just share this really deep bond with each other, and it’s something that other people just won’t get because, you know, you don’t really get that experience as a barista. But being here, we’ve like lived together all summer and it’s a family more than it is a friendship.”
2024 Cabin Leader
“The community here has felt safe. These people that I’ve been with, I think I can be myself and not feel excluded. I can just be myself and not be judged or anything. Also, just meeting the other cabin leaders and program staff, everyone that works at Youthfront is always so kind and always so supportive with anything that comes along. Being a Cabin Leader has had a pretty huge impact on my relationship with God, mainly through the kids because they have taught me so much I haven’t even known. And just seeing the kids bond over him too leaves me speechless.”
2023 Cabin Leader
“The role of Cabin Leading isn’t for everyone. It’s for someone who intentionally wants to work with kids and be available emotionally and mentally for these kids and not have a problem with it. And that’s the great part about this for me personally. I want to be there and I want to do the best of my ability because the rest is all God. And that’s the beautiful part of Cabin Leading, is just seeing how God works through these kids throughout the week and how he’s able to speak and just move through them and just to see the growth from day one to day five.”
2024 Worship Leader, Camp West
“The great thing about this community is while there are friend groups and people who may already know each other, there are zero links. After the summer, everyone stays in contact still. I mean, these are the people that you’re going to know for the rest of your life and keep in touch with ten years into the future. It’s the community you really want for your life.”
2024 Snack Shop Supervisor, Camp West
“Being at Youthfront has shaped my faith journey in a way that I was not expecting at all. When I first came here it was very hard for me to grasp the idea that God loves us. I used to view love as like, you do this in order to get this or I do that in order to get that. But as I’ve been here through learning and through singing and really listening to people, I learned that God’s love is unconditional. I started to accept that the songs we were singing were also about me. And I started to accept the scriptures we were reading were also about me. I just started to apply God’s love to myself, which is not something that I feel like I ever really did. So I feel like I learned God in a whole new way when I came here. It’s definitely changed a lot for the better.”
