Planning Today for our Youth of Tomorrow

The youth of today are our leaders of tomorrow... and the Greek Orthodox Church is determined to nurture this precious resource. The development of the Bribie Island Youth Campus will provide an oasis from the struggles of everyday living. It will offer an environment for the development of young lives for a positive future in harmony with nature. As an educational facility it will enhance the spiritual, physical, cultural and intellectual development of young people of Orthodox faith from throughout Australia. It is also intended that the Centre will grow to support the broader social, cultural, recreational and educational needs of the wider community.

The master plan incorporates the following:

• Church dedicated to Panagia
• Amenities block (storage/toilets/kitchen)
• Caretaker's residence
• Self contained accommodation for 120 people (12 accommodation cabins)
• Camping grounds including amenities (showers/toilets/laundry)
• Auditorium (dining area/community activities)
• Amphitheatre for open air lectures
• Fields for team sports
• Bush walking tracks and environmental education facilities
• Coach and car parking

Stage One

Infrastructure connections: electricity, water, sewer, kerb and channeled road access including a creek culvert were completed in 2000. Building construction commenced in 2002 and was completed in 2003. The Church and amenities block together with stair and ramp access and associated landscaping are now complete.

Stage Two

Construction of a caretaker's residence, 20 cleared camp sites, a toilet/shower/laundry block for campers and a self-contained accommodation cabin to commence in 2007. It is with great pleasure that we announce that the Kastellorizian Association of Queensland has pledged $52,000 towards the construction of the first accommodation cabin.

We seek the support of other community associations and groups to help fund this project.
Prefabricated buildings will be used for this stage. They are attractive and durable and will blend into the natural bushland setting with minimal earthworks.

Further Stages

The final stage is the construction of the remaining accommodation cabins, dining hall and anphitheatre. This is the largest stage of the project and expected to cost in the order of $2,000,000. At completion is will be Australia's most advanced, eco-friendly and energy efficient youth camp and education facility. It will accommodate school, youth and other groups of any size up to 120 people in comfortable self-contained cabin accommodation. Larger groups can be catered for with the campground accommodation. It will boast state of the art facilities for conventions and conferences for educationalists from around Australia and beyond.

The camp has been sensitively designed to minimize its footprint on the island environment. The planners and architects have envisioned a facility more than a youth camp. Through ingenious design and planning the accommodation cabins are suitable for family accommodation when not booked for larger groups. The site is a division of St Andrews Theological College. Through ingenious design taking advantage of the natural, subtropical island setting, St Andrews Theological College Bribie Island Campus will benefit generations of young people from throughout Australia as they grow and develop into the community builders and leaders of the future.