School is starting again for many young Teens. After the long holiday, one question is worth asking: what was the most important experience your teenager had during the break? And what helped prepare him or her to return to school, live for Christ, and stand against the many influences around them?

For the parents who sent their teenagers to the sixth edition of the LF Junior Bible Camp, this was an opportunity to help them prepare spiritually before returning to everyday school life.

A camp with a purpose

Since 2020, Little Flock Ministries, through its youth ministry, Little Flock Junior, has organized a Bible camp for teenagers every summer. Its vision is summarized in the slogan: “Passing on the Gospel to the next generation.”

The ministry saw a growing need among Christian young people: many are surrounded by a culture where the true Gospel is often unclear, while false ideas about Christianity are becoming attractive. The camp therefore seeks to create a place where teenagers can hear and understand the Gospel in a language that fits their culture, while remaining faithful to the Bible.

This sixth edition, held from August 11 to 14, 2026, was built around the theme “I Am a Christian Hedonist.” Sixty-six young teens took part in the camp at Jenda.

Discovering Christian Hedonism

The first major teaching introduced the teenagers to the idea of Christian Hedonism, strongly associated with John Piper.

The word hedonism is connected with the search for pleasure and happiness. Human beings naturally seek joy. The problem is not that we want happiness. The problem is where we look for it. Christian Hedonism teaches that our deepest and lasting joy is found in God. John Piper summarizes it this way

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”

This is closely connected with the Westminster Shorter Catechism, which says that our main purpose is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.

The camp helped the teenagers understand that enjoying God is not the opposite of obedience. Rather, true obedience grows from loving and delighting in God.

A new heart that loves Christ

Another important lesson focused on regeneration.

To truly see Christ as our greatest treasure, we need more than information. We need a new heart. Because of sin, human beings are spiritually dead and naturally turn away from God. But God, through the Holy Spirit, gives new life and creates a new heart that can know, love, and desire him.

The teenagers were challenged with an important question:

If you could have only one thing, what would you choose: money, fame, a perfect relationship, beauty, many friends, the fulfillment of all your dreams, or Jesus himself?

Jesus' parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price in Matthew 13 helped answer that question. The people in those stories gave up everything because they had found something worth more than everything else.

That is the heart of Christian Hedonism: Christ is the treasure. Because Christ is worth more, we are willing to leave behind anything that pulls us away from him.

The problem is not that our desires are too strong. Often, our desires are too weak because we settle for small and temporary pleasures instead of the lasting joy found in God.

When joy overflows into love

The next day, the teenagers learned that joy in God does not remain inside us. It overflows into love for other people.

One of the central ideas was:

“Love is the overflow of joy in God that responds with joy to the needs of others.”

Christian love is not simply doing good things. It also involves the heart and our motives. The Christians in Macedonia, for example, gave generously even in the middle of suffering and poverty. Their joy in God produced generosity.

At the same time, the teenagers were reminded that love does not always feel comfortable. Love can be painful, tiring, costly, and demanding.

Jesus himself is the greatest example. He endured the cross because of the joy that was set before him. Christian joy, therefore, is not the same thing as comfort. We may suffer and still have deep joy because we know that Christ is worth it.

Finding joy in the Scriptures

Another session focused on the relationship between Christian Hedonism and the Bible.

God does not destroy our joy. He gives us a deeper, truer, and lasting joy. The problem is that we often look for happiness in the wrong places.

The Bible helps us discover where true joy is found. God's Word gives faith, strengthens hope, and points us again and again to God himself.

Psalm 16:11 says:

“In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

The world offers pleasures that are limited and temporary. In God, there is fullness of joy and lasting pleasure.

Prayer: seeking God, not only his gifts

The camp also addressed prayer. One of the strongest questions was:

“If God already knows what we need, why should we pray?”

Prayer is not simply a way of asking God for things. It expresses our relationship with him, our dependence on him, and our need for his grace.

A child speaks to a loving father even when the father already knows what the child needs. Prayer works in a similar way. It brings us into communion with God.

Prayer glorifies God because it reminds us that he is sufficient and we are dependent. It also deepens our joy in Christ.

The teenagers were warned not to treat God like a machine for producing blessings. Prayer should be centered on God himself and his glory.

Christ is worth more than comfort

Another session focused on Christian Hedonism and ministry. The key statement was simple: “Christ is worth more than my comfort.”

Serving Christ can cost us our time, money, energy, opportunities, and even our comfort. Sometimes it can also involve suffering.

So why choose something difficult? Because there is something we desire more than our present comfort: Christ himself.

Paul wrote that his desire was to know Christ, including the fellowship of his sufferings. The goal is not suffering for its own sake. The goal is Christ. Suffering may simply become the price of faithful obedience.

The Christian does not say, “I serve Christ because I love suffering.” Rather: “I am willing to suffer because I love Christ.” And because Christ is our treasure, we want others to know him too.

A special graduation day

Friday, August 14th, was also a special day because ten teenagers graduated from the first edition of DEVITRA, LF Junior's year-long doctrine class for teenagers.

The day included certificates, gifts, testimonies, photographs, and, most importantly, the opportunity to hear these young people speak about their walk with Christ.

The camp also included small-group discussions and personal reflection. These groups helped the teenagers process the teachings, build relationships, and form small circles of discipleship.

The impact of the camp

One of the greatest encouragements came through the testimonies after the camp.

A 14-year-old girl, Daniella, attended the camp for the first time. After returning home, her family noticed a clear difference in her. She spoke enthusiastically about what she had learned and even began sharing the message with others at home.

A 17-year-old boy, Rick Warren, also attended for the first time. He explained that he had expected the Bible teaching to be difficult and boring. Instead, he found it clear, interesting, and useful. He even said that he had written down what he learned so that he could study it again later. He also shared that, after the camp, he spent a significant time praying at night.

These testimonies remind us that the goal of a Bible camp is not simply to create good memories. We pray for genuine spiritual change.

One of the facilitators also testified that the very teaching on Christian Hedonism had personally helped him. And for the writer of this article, one of the effects of the camp has been a renewed prayer: asking God to fill him with his joy each day, whatever the circumstances may be.

So we say with gratitude: Soli Deo Gloria — To God alone be the glory.

A final word to parents

We thank God for the opportunity to serve this generation. We thank the whole Little Flock Junior team, the facilitators, the young people, and especially the parents who entrust their children to us.

To every parent, older brother or sister, uncle, aunt, or anyone responsible for a teenager: investing in the spiritual life of a young person is one of the greatest gifts you can give.

May the LF Junior Bible Camp continue to be a place where teenagers discover that Christ is not simply someone who gives good gifts. Christ himself is the greatest treasure, the deepest joy, and the reason to live for.