Being a Leader In Training at Cairn is a wonderful way to develop leadership skills that will benefit you at camp, at school, in programs and activities and within your communities.

As a LIT at Cairn, you can spend a month living at camp and learning hard skills, such as canoeing, tripping and belaying, as well as soft skills such as leading TLC, running camp programs and nurturing campers.

This is definitely one month of camp that you do not want to miss! Plus, being a LIT is an important and useful step to take before applying to be a staff member at Cairn.

If you’ll be 16 years of age by December 31, 2010, you are eligible to apply to Cairn’s Leader In Training programme. Applications can be found on our website, or by clicking here. Applications are due on Friday, March 19, 2010, so if you’re looking to experience the best summer of your life, apply now!

Please also note that there is a mandatory LIT Day for all LIT applicants on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at Morningside-High Park Presbyterian Church in Toronto. Hope to see you there!

LIT Trip

If you are 16 years of age (by December 2010) then the Cairn LIT programme is for you!

Register for Cairn’s 2010 Leader In Training Programme and fill out the application! If you want the summer of your life – come to Cairn and register to be an LIT!

To Download the LIT application, Click Here!

Hope to see you as an LIT!

Dear TopaZoic.
I Just thought I’d send you a little something to make you realize what Cairn has done for me. I have been coming to camp for years, and it makes my year. Many of my friends who have never been to camp, don’t understand the way camp is, how it picks you up and feeds your spirit and can give you a life time of inside jokes. Camp for me has always been more about  the memories and fun times than it has been about the friends I will have for life.
That is, until this year. LIT has done amazing things for me. I’m so much closer to God, I’m more patient and flexible, I gained a bunch of hard skills like portaging and canoeng and swimming. It let me learn thigns about myself too, like how I need friendships and relationships with real emotional substance, that I DEF need alone time:), that I can be myself all the time with who ever I’m around and thats ok.

The Most Important Thing I Gained from my Cairn Leader in Training Programme

The most important thing that I have gained from LIT is love. I have never felt as close to any 14 people ( incl T-Bayco [ed.: T-ba & Chayko, the LIT Directors]) in my entire life. These people were there for me through an entire month of life.  Real, dramatic, and fun, and hard and unforgettable life. They taught me about me, about themselves, about what true friendship is, they put themselves on the line for me to catch if they fall, and always the other way around. At the beginging of July I put myself into the hands of Cairn, and came out with a better life. I learned, i laughed, i cried ( yes, i’ll admit it), I gave but i never gave up, grew but didnt grow all the way up, I sang, danced, played, I lived and I Loved. More than anythign I Loved.
Already I have hung out with Mauri ( and plinko and topia) countless times, went to Zooka’s cottage with 7 of the LIT‘s, visited camp yesterday ( and hopefully again this weekend). I talk to the LITs on msn alot, and I’m thankful for that. These people are my friends, my bretheren, and I have You guys to thank for that.
So, thanks. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thanks for my spirit, and the love, for my brothers and sisters, for countless memories. I just feel amazed at the way the month turned out. I know this whole thiing is a little corny or whatever, but its really the way I feel, and I’m so thankful. You guys are amazing and you are making peoples lives better. You are giving what God gave you and multiplying it tenfold.