NLOMA Is...
The National Lutheran Outdoors Ministry Association is an association of individuals committed to helping people through outdoors ministry. Its members include camp leaders, camp staff, supporters of camping, students, and others.
NLOMA serves Christ and His Church by offering professional growth opportunities and by its members providing services for outdoor ministry organizations. To accomplish this mission, NLOMA:
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Provides and promotes professional growth opportunities for its membership.
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Recruits part-time and full-time staff for Partner Camps.
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Promotes outdoors ministry as it applies to individuals, agencies, and institutions of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
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Serves as a support and resource network for its members and Partner Camps.
Our Core Values
What's important to NLOMA? We are convinced that the key to creating a truly great organization is an intense focus on the values that guide its member’s actions. These are NLOMA’s "Core Values and Beliefs
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We value lifelong learning...
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We strive to support each other in our shared ministries.
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We work together because through teamwork we can achieve more.
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We respect and cherish God's creation and value our role as its stewards.
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We strive to develop and maintain authentic relationships - a key element in our ministry programs, gatherings and networking.
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We are responsible and ethical. We guard and conserve our organizations resources as if they were our own.
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We value and respect the whole individual (spiritual, professional, emotional, mental and physically).
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We cherish God’s Word.
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We support the work of the Church through outdoor ministry.
Email your questions to nloma@nloma.org