UrbanPromise Summer Camps
UrbanPromise Main Campus (Camp Spirit & Camp Faith) and Neighborhood-Based Sites (Camp Peace, Camp Freedom), 27 N 36th St, Camden, NJ 8105
About
UrbanPromise Summer Camps offers exploratory learning, outdoor activities, arts, recreation, and field trips. Campers take part in activities such as face painting, carnival games, a dunk tank, swimming, roller skating, rock climbing, movies, fishing, paddling, art class, STEM class, Bible class, recreational games, and science experiments. Each camp day includes a high-energy opening program.
• Ages: 6–13 years old
• Schedule: Summer camp runs from Monday, June 29, 2026, through Thursday, August 6, 2026, on Mondays through Thursdays from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm
• Price: Summer camps are free except for a one-time fee of $40 and an additional $20 per child from the same household, paid in cash or money order on the first day of camp
Breakfast and lunch are served daily, and if a child brings food from home it must be in a labeled lunch box that does not require refrigeration or heating. Transportation is not offered for campers during the summer. UrbanPromise reports providing more than 5,000 free healthy breakfasts and lunches to summer camp children and teens and notes that campers have 350 minutes of physical activity each week through the opening program, recreation, and activity-based trips. Camp slots are first come, first serve, with priority given to current after school participants, summer 2025 returners, and Camden City residents.
UrbanPromise describes its mission as inspiring generations of positive change agents working towards a compassionate and just world, using a holistic framework of care, relationship-based experiential learning, and Christian faith. The organization notes that its after school and summer camp programming is supported by teenage StreetLeaders at multiple sites, and one StreetLeader, Micah, shares that “The kids look at you like you’re their role model. They call me their big brother. I meet the kids’ energy with my own. It’s a natural connection with all the kids.” UrbanPromise states that it invests in Camden’s youth, that its camps are neighborhood-based, that cross-camp engagement is used to bridge perceived gaps or differences between neighborhoods, and that swimming is offered in partnership with the Kroc Center.
UrbanPromise reports that it launched its first official summer camp in 1988 in an old Baptist church in the city of Camden and that UrbanPromise Ministries was established as a New Jersey nonprofit in 1993. The leadership team for children and youth programs includes Director of Children and Youth Programs Albert Vega, Program Director for Camp Peace Zion Brown, Camp Spirit Program Director Brandon Santiago, Program Administrator Geneva McDowell, founding director Dr. Bruce Main, and Dr. Tony Campolo as the inspiration for UrbanPromise.
Last updated July 10, 2026.
• Ages: 6–13 years old
• Schedule: Summer camp runs from Monday, June 29, 2026, through Thursday, August 6, 2026, on Mondays through Thursdays from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm
• Price: Summer camps are free except for a one-time fee of $40 and an additional $20 per child from the same household, paid in cash or money order on the first day of camp
Breakfast and lunch are served daily, and if a child brings food from home it must be in a labeled lunch box that does not require refrigeration or heating. Transportation is not offered for campers during the summer. UrbanPromise reports providing more than 5,000 free healthy breakfasts and lunches to summer camp children and teens and notes that campers have 350 minutes of physical activity each week through the opening program, recreation, and activity-based trips. Camp slots are first come, first serve, with priority given to current after school participants, summer 2025 returners, and Camden City residents.
UrbanPromise describes its mission as inspiring generations of positive change agents working towards a compassionate and just world, using a holistic framework of care, relationship-based experiential learning, and Christian faith. The organization notes that its after school and summer camp programming is supported by teenage StreetLeaders at multiple sites, and one StreetLeader, Micah, shares that “The kids look at you like you’re their role model. They call me their big brother. I meet the kids’ energy with my own. It’s a natural connection with all the kids.” UrbanPromise states that it invests in Camden’s youth, that its camps are neighborhood-based, that cross-camp engagement is used to bridge perceived gaps or differences between neighborhoods, and that swimming is offered in partnership with the Kroc Center.
UrbanPromise reports that it launched its first official summer camp in 1988 in an old Baptist church in the city of Camden and that UrbanPromise Ministries was established as a New Jersey nonprofit in 1993. The leadership team for children and youth programs includes Director of Children and Youth Programs Albert Vega, Program Director for Camp Peace Zion Brown, Camp Spirit Program Director Brandon Santiago, Program Administrator Geneva McDowell, founding director Dr. Bruce Main, and Dr. Tony Campolo as the inspiration for UrbanPromise.
Last updated July 10, 2026.
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