Nearly 350 students, youth leaders, program team members and agency representatives traveled to Glorieta Adventure Camps in Glorieta, N.M. for Ascent, USMB Youth’s new annual national summer camp, June 16-20, 2021.
The four-day event included sessions, workshops, worship, activities and more. The CL will publish a recap of the event in the September/October issue of the magazine. To give a glimpse into life at Ascent, we have compiled the following photos.
Sessions with speaker John Leonard, Mountain View Church, Fresno, Calif.
Worship with Presence Worship, Wichita, Kan.
Workshops
Activities
J Time devotions
Late-night events
Janae Rempel Shafer is the Christian Leader associate editor. She joined the CL staff in September 2017 with six years of experience as a professional journalist. Shafer is an award-winning writer, having received three 2016 Kansas Press Association Awards of Excellence and two Evangelical Press Association Higher Goals awards in 2022 and 2025. Shafer graduated from Tabor College in 2010 with a bachelor of arts in Communications/Journalism and Biblical/Religious Studies. She and her husband, Austin, attend Ridgepoint Church in Wichita, Kansas.
