2024 Rhythms of Faith Parent Survey
The Rhythms of Faith Project seeks to empower parents and caregivers in family faith formation by leveraging the power of camp experiences. The project is a 5-year, nationwide, cross-denominational initiative coordinated by Wheaton College’s Center for Leadership Development (HoneyRock) in partnership with Sacred Playgrounds, and generously funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.
The project seeks faith formation through partnership: partnership among parents/caregivers; partnership among camps, congregations, and the home; partnership among practitioners and the academy; partnership among different Christian traditions. We bring together scholars and practitioners from Lutheran, United Methodist, and Evangelical traditions, drawing experience from camp, clergy, and academia.
As part of phase 1, the research team conducted a survey of parents to gather information about their current faith practices; their perceptions about the impact of camp on them, their children, and their family’s faith; and their core beliefs about faith, church, and camp. The strategy was to survey parents whose campers attended the previous summer in order to measure their perceptions of ongoing impacts of the camp experiences. The data, therefore, represent perceptions from summer 2023 and the intervening months prior to the start of summer 2024.
In total, 1233 parents responded from 11 different camps across the three partner organizations (LOM, UMCRM, and CCCA). This report contains the results of respondents from all 11 camps. Each camp also received an individualized report with their specific data. The report begins with an overview of the demographics of the respondents, and then presents the results of some of the primary metrics explored in the survey.
