This Year’s Theme:
Grounded in God

Grounded in God

Make plans now to join us on the campus of Maryville College (Just outside of Knoxville, TN) July 12-16, 2027. Sometimes our world makes us feel adrift. We get caught up in the craziness of our daily lives and are fed a digital world that is not reality. At camp this year, we are exploring what it means to be grounded in our relationship to the God who created the very ground we walk on, the air we breathe, and the food we eat. We are going to engage what it means to be overwhelmed by the vastness of the God who created the cosmos, but is also the God that loves the worms in the dirt. We are going to share how that same God created us, sustains us, and revives us so that we can engage the physical world around us as divine image bearers. We hope you will come along with us as we journey into the world that the Lord God has made.

2027 Camp Proclaimer
Jerusha Masten Neal

Unidiversity is thrilled to welcome Dr. Jerusha Masten Neal as Camp Proclaimer for 2027 Unidiversity Youth Camp.

Jerusha Matsen Neal (she/her) is an Associate Professor Homiletics at Duke Divinity School and an ordained ABC(USA) pastor. She teaches preachers and proclaimers how to speak God's Word with bold humility, and she is especially grateful for the ways this work grows her hope in challenging times. When she was serving as a Global Ministries mission partner in the Fiji Islands, she saw first-hand how brave, faith-filled communities were responding to rising sea levels and fiercer storms. Many of these villages were facing relocation and uncertain futures, but God’s call to resilience and love made visible differences in their commitments to Life and to each other. Her latest book, Holy Ground (Baylor University), draws on this experience, listening to the preaching of Fijian pastors as a reminder of our living connection with families of faith around the world. Neal is committed to encouraging the voices of young preachers and faith leaders in the risky proclamation of gospel hope. A former actress and playwright, she has also authored a collection of dramatic monologues, Blessed: Monologues for Mary (2012). Jerusha and her husband Wes live in Durham, NC, and she has two grown children: Linden (she/they) and Josiah (he/him).

Unidiversity Band

Our unique Unidiversity band is a key piece to the Unidiversity experience. Headed up by John Callaway, the band involves youth and adults throughout the week with a series of energizing, engaging, sometimes fun and funny, sometimes contemplative and stirring always high quality and heartfelt tunes and creative offerings.