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[quote=Anonymous]I went to a Young Life retreat/camping during my sophomore year of high school. I was raised Catholic, had Jewish friends and refused to say they were going to hell during a small group discussion one night in our cabin. Leaders took me out by myself into the woods to tell me I was going to hell if I didn't change what I was saying, and kept on me the entire weekend if I wanted to go to a room where at the end of camp you say you are committing your life to Jesus. There is another room for those unsure of their commitment.

I went to the Jesus room and was considered "born again" per a card they gave me after...it was my 15th birthday and my "born again" day. 
I wrote my college essay about the experience and years later as an adult looked into Young Life bc of all this.

They carefully select kids in the school who are accessible and popular and build the program around them. There was an adult who was always around the school, he was a substitute teacher but was "cool" - he was recruiting kids in.

I know people who loved the camp but I would be wary, especially if they don't have the ACA accreditation. I don't think the way they handled adults and kids was above board and I also don't think my parents had any clue I was going to be alone with adults I didn't know who were telling me to condemn non-Christians to hell. I didn't go back after that experience and would not let my DD go. FWIW I'm still Catholic and practicing so not opposed to religion but opposed to that.

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