Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp

An Early-Intervention Challenge Camp… redirecting troubled teens, one teen at a time…

Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp for Troubled Teens… a wake-up call to excellence!

Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp is a 3-day intensive leadership camp, serving all new students of ALA.

Before enrolling your child into ALA did you find yourself having to endure the outrageous behavior of your teenager?  Day-after-day, did you see your once promising child slipping away into the abyss of rebellion?  Did you feel like your home and life is being terrorized, assaulted, or attacked?  Was your precious child transforming before your eyes, turning into an “entitled’ self-serving monster? 

There is a way to stop and reverse the downward spiral.  At Abundant Life Academy we revive the once promising boy/girl and restore them to their powerful destiny.  At Abundant Life Academy we revive the child and restore the family!

“Abundant Life Academy is an early-intervention camp for kids who are beginning to spin out of control, making one poor choice after another, and need immediate redirection”  Robert Gardner, Assistant Program Director

Today’s troubled teens are usually good kids, coming from good families, yet they have become rebellious and are heading in the wrong direction.  The “troubled teen” that we are referring to is really a great kid (good hearted) but is making poor decisions (defiant, lazy, lying, sneaking out at night, experimenting with drugs/alcohol, sexually active, doing poorly in school, unmotivated, hanging out with the wrong crowd, throwing temper tantrums when they don’t get their way). Sometimes kids need a quick wake up call to get out of the rut, and get back on track with success.  Therefore, ALA offers all incoming students an opportunity to jump start their ALA experience by completing our Challenge Camp.

“The troubled teen we serve is emotionally immature and in self-destruction mode.  These young men/women are ungrateful, selfish, self-absorbed, and self-centered.  Additionally, these kids live in a fantasy-based world (void of responsibility, accountability, and consequences), living for the moment, unwilling to invest into their future.”  Robert Nording, Executive Director

The perfect student candidate for Abundant Life Academy is a very smart child who has become a major manipulator; a natural born leader who is not living up to his/her potential.  These young people only care about the acceptance they find from their friends (who are also rebellious and emotionally immature).  These future leaders have tremendous potential, but right now they are not able to make decisions that are in their best interest.  To them, everything is about having fun and hanging out doing stupid things.  They are using the very best part of themselves (natural leadership abilities) to destroy themselves (rules don’t apply to these kids). Does this describe your child?  If so, we advise that you take advantage of our Challenge Camp and get your child started off with a powerful kick-start.  Chose the Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp experience.

“These children believe that their parents are retarded, gay, and stupid.  Moreover, these kids are professional “victims”, blaming all their woes on others. Sound familiar?  If you are a parent of a “troubled teen” we are here to tell you that you are not alone.”  Brian Hogie, Program Director

Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp serves the entering ALA student with a “wake up” call.  At Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp we teach “emotional intelligence” and “choice theory”.  Our goal is to awaken your child to the reality that life is not fair, and successful people work hard and take responsibility for their choice.  Additionally, we teach that “happiness” is a direct result of our best choices over a period of time.  Happiness is found in serving others and leading others into “significance”. 
For a natural born leader happiness is found when we serve/lead others into greatness.  In other words, if we are unhappy it is no one’s fault but our own.  Our poor choices have created the unhappy place we have found ourselves in.  Essentially, in regard to “normal people”, being self-centered and selfish causes unhappiness (depression)… and it should!  And, if we find ourselves “trapped”, “oppressed”, and without good options it is because we betrayed ourselves by making a series of poor choices.  Students completing the ALA Challenge Camp can use the experience to pull themselves out of the rut they have created, and propel themselves into being successful ALA students.

Through the Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp we teach our students to become accountable to themselves and others by re-learning to make good choices consistently.  More importantly, if we truly want to find happiness (fulfillment) it can always be found through a direct result of our willingness to invest ourselves (making good choices consistently) and to lead others to do the same (creating win-win-win situations).

Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp presents a 3-day early-intervention leadership camp for all incoming ALA students.  In the 3-day camp we help our students to learn about themselves (Know Yourself).  Our students learn about their strengths, gifts, talents, weakness, and blind spots.  They learn about what makes them tick (motivations, temperaments, personality traits).  Moreover, our students learn to relate to others regardless of their limitations.  Secondly, the student learns to make “emotionally mature” decisions (Choose Yourself).  Our students come to understand how they have undermined their own efforts, and how they have set themselves up for failure by “playing the victim”.  They learn “how” and “why” they should submit to authority, and what value it offers when they do.  Finally, our students learn about the consequences of their choices over a period of time, and how to reverse the pattern of making consistently poor choices (Give Yourself). 

“At Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp we teach students to become overcomers, powerful leaders, with restored destiny.”  Craig Rogers, Co-Founder

The Abundant Life Academy Challenge Camp is only offered to enrolled students of Abundant Life Academy (Early Intervention or 9-12 month programs).  We would hope that all students entering Abundant Life Academy would participate in the ALA Challenge Camp.