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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]They carefully select kids in the school who are accessible and popular and build the program around them. [/b]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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This was Fellowship of Christian Athletes at my high school. It worked, too.

As a committed Christian I hated it because the people who they recruited were not at all good representatives of the real faith.[/quote]

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