Please do NOT send money to the camp on behalf of the members you are supporting. In the past, churches have mailed us one lump sum to cover their member's registration fees. This got confusing as some people had not registered and others showed up the day of check-in expecting it to be paid but it wasn't.
Please follow this procedure:
- Have the member register their child and pay the required deposit. (Both a registration confirmation and a payment receipt can be printed for your verification; the deposit helps them be invested and gives us a level of assurance the camper will show.)
- Make a check payable to Swamp Camp Services, Inc. (This will alleviate any concern of the check not being used for camp.)
- Give the check to the member. (They know the amount is covered and they have the responsibility of turning it in--not you or the camp.)
- They turn it in when they check their child in at camp. (This way they own the completion of this process.)
Adherence to these steps will:
- Alleviate the need to track down people who haven't registered. (This took our small staff an enormous amount of time in the past.)
- Avoid any potentially embarrassing situations at check-in when they think registration has been paid and we show nothing has been paid. (Usually miscommunication or no communication and they feel embarrassed…then this drops into the track-down process.)
- Keep us from having to process refund checks for those whom the church thought they were supporting and then didn't register, or acquire additional funds from you or the family for those who thought money was paid on their behalf and it wasn't. (Yet another way steps can be alleviated)
- All of the above situations have happened repeatedly in the past. We are trying to avoid any of these.
Many groups have followed this process in previous years and it worked like a charm, encouraging more direct communication between the church benevolence team and the member, and removing the camp as the middle man/banker.
Thanks for complying with this process. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
Contact Us.