Animate
Animate is a summer camp in worship and the arts for teenagers and their adult mentors.
June 23-27, 2025
Animate is Samford University’s Center for Worship and the Arts original summer camp in worship and the arts for teenagers and their adult mentors held on Samford’s campus in Birmingham, Alabama.
Middle School and High School Students
Join us at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama from June 23-27, 2025, to discover your passion and elevate your artistry at Animate: the summer camp for worship and the arts. With guidance from special guest artists, alongside Samford faculty and student leaders, you will learn to engage in multiple styles of worship and connect with artistically-minded friends and mentors, taking what you have learned back home to use your gifts to serve your church.
Ministry Leaders
Gather a group of student musicians, vocalists, visual artists, dancers, poets, preachers, technicians, actors, and all other aspiring creatives – along with staff and lay leader adults committed to helping mentor faithful worshipers of Jesus. Through Animate, get immersed in rich worship experiences, thoughtful teaching, and practical how-to sessions so that you can empower a group of young disciples who know they are not only the Church of the future—but the Church right now.
We will have on-campus housing this year!
“Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.”—1 Timothy 4:12
