Frequently Asked Questions for State Youth Camp 

• Three nights of camping bringing your own tents. Tents can be hired at an additional cost. 

• All meals Saturday, Sunday, and Breakfast on Monday 

• Six Teaching and Worship Sessions 

• Two Workshop Sessions 

• The Tribe Time Activities, Afternoon Activities and Evening Activities each day 

• An SYC T-shirt with the year’s theme 

At SYC, we try our best to balance the cost of providing an amazing experience for the young people with the cost-of-living pressures that we know families are facing.

To help with this, we have discounts available for multiple siblings and have a financial support program available to assist individual youth. We also know that youth groups have had great success partnering with their wider community and holding fundraisers to subsidise the cost. We would love to help you explore what opportunities are out there to support your group coming to camp financially, so please reach out to us. 

We’ve got your tent covered too! If you don’t have access to the required equipment or you want to give SYC a go before making the decision to purchase tents, we can hire tents for your group. We also know that while your young people might not have the gear, there has been great success asking the wider church to borrow camping equipment that you might want to explore. 

Big groups come to camp, small groups come to camp. The smallest group we have had on camp consisted of two leaders with one young person. The great thing about SYC is that while individually, a smaller youth group might not be able to run their own camp, SYC provides a place for these churches to still offer the mountain top peak Christian camping experience to their young people. We have the ability to buddy smaller groups up with others in their region so they can camp together. Many groups already do this, and we’d love to help you do this too. 

At a minimum each group needs to come with at least two leaders – one male and one female. The guide then is to have 1 additional leader for every 10 young people. 

 Every adult on camp needs to provide their WWCC for verification and are expected to have completed Creating Safe Spaces Training in their local church. 

Not at all. Youth parents can lead, other adults from your church can lead. Provided they fulfill the safe church requirements to attend, and you recognize them as being competent people to supervise your young people at SYC, they can come with you as leaders. 

SYC celebrates the variety of leaders that come alongside young people each week at youth group. As such, we openly invite all leaders to join us at SYC including those that have small children. We ask that they be registered separately on the SYC Children 11 & Under  registration page and ask that these children be supervised by their parents at all times while at camp. 

SYC offers a safe environment for young people to explore their leadership giftings. From onstage opportunities for prayer and Bible reading, to tribe leading opportunities, young people are invited to take part in ways that are useful to them. 

Each year we host a special Seniors Lunch for Year 11s & 12s as an opportunity for them to share their experiences, ask questions of leaders in our Baptist Association and pray with each other. We also encourage youth groups to utilise the leadership giftings of their young people in appropriate ways. 

For Young Adults we provide leadership development opportunities for those who volunteer and to our youth leaders as well as part of the larger church program. We also encourage those finishing year 12 to consider volunteering as well.  

We have some churches that offer multiple camps to their young people each year. Some of these groups bring all their young people to SYC and their other camp, while others see SYC as an opportunity to target a specific group (e.g. Juniors or Seniors) for more intentional discipleship and focus. Some Youth Leaders value the Leadership Development aspects of SYC and run SYC as their additional camp for their Year 10-12, while others enjoy the activities and make SYC their Year 7-9 camp.  

Another option is to have your group take advantage of the single or double day passes to join part of camp. 

There is also the REVIVE @ SYC event on the Saturday night of camp that any church within an hour of Wyong can attend as well. 

SYC is a great opportunity to provide a camping event for the young people of your church even if there is no official youth group. There is no minimum number of young people required to bring a group. All you need to do is have one male and one female adult/leader* for the first ten youth that come and then an additional adult/leader for every ten young people after this.  

*note all leaders are required to provide a valid WWCC and have completed their churches safe ministry screening.  

Absolutely! 

SYC is an initiative run by the Baptist Association of NSW/ACT, however any church that would like to bring their young people along are more than welcome to register.