Sarah Hurt is the Director of Camp DeSoto. She grew up playing in the woods of Lookout Mountain, swimming in Little River, and spending her summers as a DeSoto camper. She loves good stories, twinkle lights, her dog Riley, and Camp DeSoto girls most of all.
Camp taught me to take an “upside down” perspective - to flip the common understanding on its head and take a “kingdom of God” perspective. I love th...
"All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memo...
Sundays at DeSoto are days to savor. The pace around Camp is slower on Sundays. We are more settled in, and that gives us all a chance to relish what...
So much has happened since our last blog post - I feel like a camper who has been too busy having fun at Camp to write any good letters home! So just...
I wanna go back, I wanna go back to Camp DeSoto! I wanna go back to the Camp I love…
I wanna go back, I wanna go back to Camp DeSoto! I wanna go back to the Camp I love…
I wanna go back, I wanna go back to Camp DeSoto, I wanna go back to the Camp I love…
Tonight, after supper I was walking around Camp enjoying the sounds of girls’ conversations and laughter. I ran into a couple of sixteen year-old gir...
"The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point averag...
Camp is just around the corner, and it’s time for some Tribe spirit! Do you find yourself humming tribe songs sometimes? I do! They make me think of...
"He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down - and of course, he has other ...
"Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they ...