Info for Leaders
Amplify is a six-day creative arts camp for young people aged school year 11 to 25 years, from across Aotearoa New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa.
Amplify 2027 kicks off with registration from 1pm on Tuesday 12 January and ends after lunch on Sunday 17 January. Transport is provided from the airport. Please ensure your flight lands by 12:30pm on 12 January and departs no earlier than 3:30pm on 17 January.
Earlybird is $275 (before 1 November) and full price is $300 (from 1 November).
Registrations open 1 October and close 1 December or once all spots are full.
THE HEART
There are three main purposes for Amplify.
Creativity - To encourage and equip young people in the creative arts and help them to discover how to use these skills in their corps and community.
Relationship - To help build positive connections between young people across our territory.
Discipleship - To strengthen and develop young people in their discipleship journeys.
THE WHAT
Across the six days, young people spend time learning in chosen creative fields, exploring their giftings and how they can use these to build the Church as well as positively impact their community.
We also spend time together in small groups each day, as well as free time, meals, camp-wide activities, church services, activities in our café and the Amplify Festival.
FESTIVAL
The Amplify Festival is an in-house event where we’ll have the chance to express our creative areas and give something a go on stage or show off other art expressions through creative stalls and displays. It’s a great celebration of who we all are.
PARTNERSHIP
Local youth leaders are invited to apply to attend the event in the sole role of caring for their young people. This is called an application form for safety – everyone attending camp needs to ‘apply’ so a corps officer/centre manager can let us know they are happy for you and your young people to attend. Leaders will be accepted where appropriate and proportionate to their group size! Local youth leaders will also need to be up to date with their Keeping Children Safe.
This option is only available for one leader per corps – your other leaders are more than welcome to attend Amplify, they will just need to do so as a camper!
Hit the button for the Leader’s Application.
Youth Leaders will be in separate accommodation rooms to campers and will not be in creative streams. Youth Leaders will participate in leaders meetings, and with all other camp wide activities and we ask that you partner with us in making this a great week for your crew.
We will ask you to help with different events through the week: games, bible studies, cafe and general helping the camp run smoothly!
This means, following guidance and ‘rules’ set out for camp, taking the lead on pastorally caring for those in your care, attending the youth leader hui and keeping us informed of anything we may need to know about.
We also have an experienced team of around 40 staff each year that are there to journey with you – they do an exceptional job of caring, praying, chatting, learning and having fun with us all! We have a dedicated wellbeing team onsite to support young people, as well as older campers acting as dorm monitors in accommodation spaces – we take the care of young people seriously!
In light of this, it is not a requirement to provide a leader with young people from your corps/centre. If a local leader from your setting isn’t attending, please let us know if you have young people with particular needs that we might need to look out for – we want to make this the best experience possible for everyone.
We know leaving a safe, spiritual community like Amplify and heading back to reality can be hard - we are keen to work with you better in how the Amplify ‘experience’ translates back to your young people’s home, corps and social life!
If you want more information about Amplify or have suggestions on how this partnership could be improved – we would love to hear from you.
APPLICATIONS OPEN 1 OCTOBER
Please note: all leader applications will need to be approved by your local corps/centre before you are fully registered for camp.