AND JOIN US FOR THE BEST
of your life!
BECOME A CAMP COUNSELOR
california summer
GAMES | PRAYER | SKITS | MASS | WORSHIP | HIKING | SWIMMING | ADORATION | CRAFTS | CAMPFIRE ROSARIES
WATCH THIS SPECIAL MESSAGE ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES AT SANTIAGO RETREAT CENTER
JOIN US FOR ONE OR MORE WEEKS
camp counselors
santiago
JUL 9-15, JULY 16-22, JUL 23-27
AGE 18+ CAMP COUNSELOR
AGE 14-17 JR. CAMP COUNSELOR
SERVES + STAYS DURING CAMP WEEKS
JULY 9-15 BLOSSOM GIRLS CAMP
JULY 16-22 QUO VADIS BOYS CAMP
JULY 23-27 CAMP EL CAMINO JR HIGH
Emanate Christ’s love with a joyful heart and help kids do the same!
The Santiago Camp Counselor program is a great opportunity to gain leadership experience while sharing the teachings of the Catholic faith with youth. Practice servant leadership as you journey with campers through an unforgettable Catholic adventure filled with activities, discussions, games, skits, crafts, songs, hiking, swimming, and worship.
The Summer Camp Counselor commitment includes working and living at Santiago during our various weeklong summer camps. Santiago Camps provide the opportunity to inspire the next generation, deepen your relationship with Christ, connect with young Catholics, and work in Southern California while gaining valuable life experience.
Are you ready to make a difference?
JOIN US ALL SUMMER
summer missionaries
santiago
JUN 13 - AUG 3, 2022
AGE 18+ SUMMER MISSIONARY
FULFILL YOUR HIGHEST CALLING &
GREATEST HAPPINESS IN LIFE,
WHICH IS TO GET CLOSE TO GOD.
Emanate Christ’s love with a joyful heart and help kids do the same!
The Santiago Camp Counselor program is a great opportunity to gain leadership experience while sharing the teachings of the Catholic faith with youth. Practice servant leadership as you journey with campers through an unforgettable Catholic adventure filled with activities, discussions, games, skits, crafts, songs, hiking, swimming, and worship.
The Summer Camp Counselor commitment includes working and living at Santiago during our various weeklong summer camps. Santiago Camps provide the opportunity to inspire the next generation, deepen your relationship with Christ, connect with young Catholics, and work in Southern California while gaining valuable life experience.
• Live & work alongside peers, building a vibrant community of disciples called to serve to others.
• Develop servant leadership by facilitating retreats, summer camps, and service projects.
• The program is founded upon three pillars: faith formation, international community, & joyful work.
Are you ready to make a difference?
JOIN US FOR 18 MONTHS
missionary disciples
santiago
JUN 2022- AUG 2023
AGE 18-29 MISSIONARY DISCIPLE
LOOKING TO GROW IN YOUR CATHOLIC FAITH?
WISHING TO TAKE A FAITH JOURNEY ALONGSIDE OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE?
Thank you for considering an application to the Missionary Disciple program at Santiago Retreat Center. Over the years, young adults have entered our gates in different capacities to deepen their relationship with Christ and minister to the youth of Orange County. It is my pleasure to introduce our newly formed Missionary Disciple program for young people to grow in faith, live in community, and engage the Catholic mission of evangelization set before us in the Gospels.
In the apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), Pope Francis reminds us of our duty as Missionary Disciples: to share Christ’s love with each person we encounter. Here at Santiago Retreat Center, we offer young people the opportunity to take up this call and step into our mission of evangelization through the newly designed 15 month Missionary Disciple Program, which begins in June and extends until August of the following year.
Santiago Retreat Center’s Missionary Disciple Program rests on three pillars:
faith formation, intentional community, and joyful work. In unity, these three pillars are directed toward Santiago Retreat Center's mission of evangelization.Faith formation is at the center of the Missionary Disciple program.
Missionary Disciples walk their “Camino”, or journey, at Santiago Retreat Center together. They live together, work and study together, and pray together. As a result, they come to address a central question of our faith lives: How do we build relationships with others upon Christ? Prayer is the bedrock of intentional community for the Missionary Disciples.
At Santiago Retreat Center, Missionary Disciples are called to joyful work: work of mind and hands that gives glory to God. The central work of Missionary Disciples is to evangelize.
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“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few…” — Matthew 9:37
ABOUT US
The Santiago Retreat Center is a 501(c)(3) corporation that exists to serve the Catholic communities of Southern California by providing facilities for retreats, marriage encounters, summer and science camps, and special events in a safe & secure, and stunningly beautiful, 500 acre setting.
