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Church Camp Carries On Despite Flu Concern

Camp Director Ensures Extra Planning, Sterilization

POSTED: 11:59 am CDT June 30, 2009
UPDATED: 6:48 pm CDT June 30, 2009

After dozens of Sumner County youth group members returned from a church camp with the flu, a large, Rutherford County group is attending the same camp.

Before LifePoint Church sent the nine bus loads of more than 400 kids to the camp, it found out that students from Sumner County's Long Hollow Baptist Church were sick last week.

"Flu is expected to be gone in the summer, so this is a very contagious flu," said Dr. Catherine Dundon of Goodlettsville Pediatrics.

"I've gotten two phone calls from parents within the past probably 15 minutes," said Nathaniel Hale of LifePoint Church.

Officials with LifePoint in Smyrna talked to the Health Department in the area, and department officials did not feel the need to cancel after the health concerns arose.

"The camp had contacted us and, you know, just to let us know," said Hale. "Obviously, we didn't want to overreact, but we do want to be diligent in everything that we do because child safety is definitely No. 1 around here."

Church officials had contact with the camp at Horn's Creek Resort outside Chattanooga, whose director ensured they would do extra planning and sterilization.

LifePoint also has three health professionals on the trip with the youth group, which Hale said is done each year.

"We do that every year, you know, just because there are so many kids that are going we want to make sure we have health professionals that are in our church body here that go down there with them," said Hale.

The church said it has been sending youth groups to the same summer camp for years without any issues with illness.


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