From Summer Camp to the Nations

You Gave Your Summer. What If You Gave 2 Years of Your Career?

You spent your summer serving campers, leading worship, discipling students, and seeing God change lives. You experienced what happens when people say yes to God’s mission.
But what if that summer wasn’t just a moment?
What if it was preparation for something?
As graduation approaches, many camp staff feel a deeper question forming:
Could God be inviting me to give more than a summer?

Explore the Next Step

What Does it Mean to Tithe Your Career?

Tithing your career means offering the first season of your professional life to God’s mission. Just like a financial tithe gives the first portion to God, this step is about giving the first years of your career to serve where the gospel is needed most. For many former camp staff, that looks like:

Teaching in under-resourced schools
Mentoring students and building communities of faith
Living out their faith in everyday work and leadership

It’s not about abandoning your career dreams. It’s about starting them with purpose.

The Skills You Build at Camp Matter

Think about what you already learned at camp. You’ve already practiced:

Leading small groups and mentoring students
Boldly stepping out of your comfort zone
Building authentic community
Communicating truth with courage
Serving with humility and joy

These aren’t just camp skills. They’re kingdom leadership skills that can shape classrooms, communities, and churches. God may have been preparing you all along.

Discover Where You Could Serve

What if Your First Job Was On the Mission Field?

Thousands of college graduates ask:
What should I do with my degree?
A better question might be:
Where does God want to use me first?
If you’ve experienced the joy of serving at camp, imagine bringing that same heart into your career. Your next step could be more than a job.

Start the Journey

How Christian Summer Camp Prepared Me to Tithe My Career Overseas

When I look back at my journey to the field, one thing was instrumental: my time in Christian camping. I spent four summers working at a family camp in the Midwest. I grew up going there, and eventually, I worked there from the summer before my freshman year to the summer before my senior year...

...Here are the ways serving at a Christian camp helped prepare me to serve overseas. Read more...

The Camp Counselor's Guide to Tithing Your Career

At GoCorps, we believe that the first two years of your career are a unique opportunity to join what God is doing globally. We call this "tithing your career." Before our Goers head overseas, we talk to them about the 5 roles of a Goer. We believe that Jesus modeled these roles to us and that they play a vital role in helping us spread seeds of the Gospel.

The good news? If you’ve survived a summer at camp, you’ve already started practicing them. Here is how the five roles of a Goer are forged on the campground. Read more...

Testimonials from former Camp Staff who Tithed Their Career as a Next Step

Aaron, Baseball Coach in Italy

The advice I give to anyone considering being a Goer is to go for it! This really is a priceless experience that will affect the rest of your life. I feel now that if the Lord were to ever call me again to a new project overseas, I wouldn’t hesitate. Growth doesn’t happen in comfort, and very often obeying God leads us into some very uncomfortable situations. My call was just the slightest holy nudge, but boy am I glad I explored that instead of ignoring it.

Maggie, Business Assistant in Spain

Working outside of the U.S. for two years through my GoCorps experience has been a deeply enriching time. It has provided significant space for wholistic development. In many ways, it has helped set me on the path that I plan to go now and revealed many things about my interests and aptitudes that now inform my goals for the future. As I finished university, I knew I wanted to live overseas to continue exploring who I was and what I was interested in as I served alongside longterm workers in my city. Being in this space has provided a helpful context for challenge and clarity that I will surely carry with me into what is next.

Fiona, Small Business Trainer in the Middle East

Moving overseas has been one of the best, hardest, and most growing things I've ever done. It was a life changing decision that I don't know if I could have done at the time I did without GoCorps. I had no idea where I wanted to go, how to access organizations, or where to start and having people guide me through the process from the very beginning to the very end made it doable. I'm so thankful to my coach for being beside me through the decision, application, support raising, and time overseas. I felt supported and encouraged the whole way. I am not the same person I was 2 years ago and despite all of the challenges and lows, I wouldn't change any of it.

Elisa, Church Planter in Columbia

I am so grateful for the experiences I had in Colombia. I am more in love with Jesus than ever before, and am so grateful for the ways he refined my heart. Everything is about Him. There is so much that can distract and discourage us, and I saw how much that can really affect the condition of my heart. I learned to worship in my alone time and that changed everything. Having a relationship with Jesus is the best part about being a Christian.

Liz, Teacher in North Africa

In my experience, GoCorps was incredibly valuable in helping me fundraise and navigating the support process. They spend an immense amount of time training and researching in order to truly guide and encourage the goer towards their goal. I am thankful for the time and investment GoCorps has made in me from the very beginning until the end of my commitment!

Nicole, Women's Outreach in the UK

This experience revolutionized my relationship with Christ. Getting to know Jesus outside of my normal sphere and seeing how he loves and interacts with his children in contexts completely outside of my own was so rich.

Daniel, Sports Coach in the Middle East

I entered the mission field as a young man with big ideas and little (no) experience. GoCorps came alongside and paired me with a long-term missionary, and the two years that followed tested and tried me in ways that I never expected. My time in the field was life changing, and I would not trade it for anything. After serving overseas, I joined GoCorps to put the lessons learned to use supporting others as they took the leap to say yes to God and see where He leads them! Though I no longer work in ministry, I am still using the lessons learned by serving overseas to witness to friends and coworkers from all walks of life. Saying yes to two years will lead to some of the hardest and greatest experiences you could ever imagine!