100,000 attendees at FCA’s 900 camps worldwide would set a record for the sports ministry.  Last year FCA hosted around 83,000 attendees at 839 camps.

Kellen Cox, executive vice president of ministry advancement at the FCA Support Center in Kansas City, Missouri, told The Christian Post, “We believe 2023 will be one of the biggest Camp years ever— over 600 camps in the US and upwards of 300 international camps. Last year, we set a record of 514 nationwide Camps.” 

FCA Camps take place all year long, but the height of Camp season is Memorial Day weekend through the summer. 

Founded in 1954, FCA exists to encourage athletes and coaches at all levels to use the platform of sport to reach other coaches and athletes with the transforming power of Jesus. The organization has several chapters at schools around the country. 

Cox believes that the growth in FCA camp involvement is happening “because God is doing unbelievable kingdom work and raising up more workers for the harvest.”

This year’s theme for the FCA camps is “Greater,” based on the message of John 3:30, which reads, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” With this theme, FCA hopes to remind coaches and athletes that their chief identity is in Christ instead of in sports.