A friend of mine compiled many of our camp songs into one easy-to-use PowerPoint show. Essentially, there’s a home page that lists every song and links the title of each song to the slide that contains its lyrics. When you’re finished singing the song, there’s another link at the end of the lyrics that sends you right back to the song menu, making it simple to choose which song you want next and hop straight to the words for it. Not only does it save us a lot of time in no having to prepare a new slideshow for every worship set, but it allows the campers to see a list of available songs and shout for which one they want to sing next.

The PowerPoint includes 51 songs, both worship songs and fun and wild nonsense songs. Our camp has motions that go along with almost every song that makes it interactive with the people around them, but obviously I have no way of teaching you those without a video, which I don’t have.

Feel free to edit the slideshow however you want. Take out songs you don’t know, add ones you do know but aren’t listed, whatever. Click the “Song Menu” thumbnail to the right to see the listing of songs included in this PowerPoint.

Download “Camp Songs” compilation PowerPoint

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Posted on February 15, 2008