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Royal Family Kids Camp

Royal Family Kids Camp

“…you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession…” – 1 Peter 2:9

Royal Family Kids Camp

Camp Dates
May 31 - June 5
Mingus Mountain

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Royal Family Kids’ Camp is a one week camp specifically designed for kids ages 7-11 that have survived abuse, neglect and abandonment. All the children have similar backgrounds. There is no embarrassing finger pointing or laughing. Some have physical scars and others have emotional scars, but they all have them.

  • Horseback riding
  • Fishing
  • Hiking
  • Zip lining/rockwall climbing
  • Human Foosball
    and much, much more!!

RFKC summer camps have demonstrated since 1985 to make a huge difference in the lives of kids in foster care!

Each night includes special entertainment including camp fires, game night and even a birthday party for everyone. Knowing that some of these children never get a birthday party or even know when their birthday is, RFKC creates a huge celebration. The party includes cake, ice cream, party favors and a bag full of gifts for each child, making this one of the favorite activities of the week.

There are over 15,000 Arizona children in foster care, all who have suffered some degree of abuse, abandonment or neglect. Left unchecked, it is common for them to grow up and experience homelessness or incarceration. Many won’t graduate high school and few will go to college. However, Royal Family KIDS Camp has PROVEN to change the lives and trajectory of children in foster care. At camp the kids experience unconditional love through God and our amazing volunteers. Our one week camp provides kids with amazing experiences for life-long memories including:

  • Horseback riding
  • Zip lining
  • Bible study
  • Worship/Songs
  • Fishing
  • Field games
  • And more!

Along with many awesome activities, camp is highlighted with a special birthday party for all of the children since many of them do not get to celebrate their birthdays. We need YOU to join us for camp and help show these amazing children the love of God. Even if you’ve never worked with kids in foster care, your involvement and support will make a huge impact on their lives. Sign up below or contact Kyle Treude for more information. Come join us for RFKC 2025! It’s the place to be!

Royal Family Kids Camp at La Casa de Cristo Scottsdale, Arizona Lutheran Church
Camp Dates:
May 31 – Jun 5
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Contact:
Kyle Treude
602-284-2264
kyle@azroyalfamily.com
 

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This year we had a very successful camp where we served 51 kiddos ages 7-12, and we are looking forward to even more success in 2026 as we expand the number of campers and volunteers. We anticipate that we’ll have ~110-120 kids and volunteers attend camp at a cost of $600 per individual. Your support goes directly to our camp and goes a long way to helping young children become great adults.

Your donation will be a dollar-for-dollar TAX CREDIT toward your Arizona state income taxes even if you contribute to school and other tax credits. In 2025, the maximum donation is $618 per individual, and $1,234 per married couple.

Please use the “Donate Today” link for more information and to donate for RFKC. Thank you for your past support, and we hope that you can support us again. As always, feel free to contact me with any questions.

Godspeed,

Kyle Treude
kyle@azroyalfamily.com
602-284-2264

Did you know that...

  • There are nearly 15,000 US children under 18 in foster care
  • Many will “age out” at age 18
  • 1 out of 5 will become homeless
  • 1 out of 4 will be incarcerated
  • Only 33% will graduate high school
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What Camp Leaders Are Saying

Joe Wentling

Every year God gives me 365 days that I get to choose what I will do. This June I know 6 of those days will be filled with the Holy Spirt uplifting Foster Kids.

Kyle Treude

“I’m thrilled with our progress in this ministry and look forward to even further success and outreach in 2024.” —

Craig Culloton

Royal Family Kids Camp is the best way to proactively impact a child’s future in a positive way. This is a great way to invest in our kids’ future to be productive, healthy and engaged citizens in our community!!

Sheri Lawson

What I love about camp is that there is a 1:1 ratio of adults to campers so I never feel like I am on my own in any situation.

Star Fish Story

While walking on the beach one day,  I saw a Starfish by the shore,
And everywhere I looked it seemed I saw a thousand more.
Then what to my surprised appeared? A boy of nine or ten,
And as the Starfish washed ashore He threw them back again…
I smiled at such a futile task to save this population,
“One fish won’t make a difference son, you can’t save this situation.”
He stooped and picked up one more fish, then looking right at me,
“I can make a difference for this one, sir,” and returned it to the sea.
So I went and gathered all my friends, my brothers and my cousins.
We joined in with that little boy and save Starfish by the dozens.
There are many to be rescued—many “Starfish” on life’s shore.
Let’s make a difference like that lad—by saving just one more

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The Great Commission
Matthew 28:16-20

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Joshua and Jericho
Joshua 6:1-27

Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Then the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.” So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the LORD and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the LORD.” When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the LORD went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the LORD’s covenant followed them. The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!” So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there. Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the LORD and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets kept sounding. So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days. On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city! The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the LORD and must go into his treasury.” When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel. Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house. But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day. At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: “At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.” So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

The Wise Men Follow the Star
Matthew 2:1-12

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: “ ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’” Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

Philip and the Ethiopian
Acts 8:26-40

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.” Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.” The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

Paul’s Shipwreck
Acts 27:27-44

On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land. They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet deep. Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight. In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow. Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.” So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away. Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. “For the last fourteen days,” he said, “you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you haven’t eaten anything. Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.” After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat. They were all encouraged and ate some food themselves. Altogether there were 276 of us on board. When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea. When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they saw a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could. Cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach. But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was broken to pieces by the pounding of the surf. The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners to prevent any of them from swimming away and escaping. But the centurion wanted to spare Paul’s life and kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land. The rest were to get there on planks or on other pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached land safely.