Hey all,
I know it as been awhile since I have posted, sorry. But I have some updates for you about the progress of Living Hope Camping Foundation, Inc.
The mission of Living Hope is to provide summer camp opportunities to underprivileged children and teenagers throughout North Carolina. This is central to the mission of Living Hope and diverging from this mission will only increase overhead and reduce camping scholarships. However, one problem with summer camp is the lack of effective follow-up after camp. I maintain, strongly, that one week of camp can, and does, have a profound affects on many campers lives, but I would be lying if I said the system is perfect. With that in mind I now reveal a new, but consistent with the mission, part of what Living Hope will be, and is, all about:
Bill Hybels, Senior Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, often says, "The local church is the hope of the world." I really believe this to be true. In fact, I believe the church can help solve many problems facing our world today, and has failed to reach its true life-changing potential. Living Hope will seek to change this by finding passionate volunteers from area churches, particular in our cities, and send our scholarship children to camp with these volunteers (properly background checked). The representatives will attend camp with the kids allowing them to build relationships over this one week. Living Hope will cover the costs of camp for the volunteer.
This one week of camp is only the beginning for both the volunteer and the campers. After camp this volunteer will continue to build relationships with the kids/teens and their families. The ultimate goal being to connect our inner city, unchurched, families to local churches through these volunteers. It is said, and just check this on linkedin.com, that you are only two or three connections away from someone famous, with influence, etc. By connecting these kids, and families with a faithful member of the local church, they will automatically be networked into opportunities for family, career, and spiritual growth. By simply sending kids to camp we will be able to see entire families come to Christ just like in the early church!
As of right now the priority for Living Hope is gaining 501c3 status. Please email livinghopefd@gmail.com if you desire to help Living Hope in anyway. With your help, we can create needed positive change economically, spiritually, and in many cases, provide better family values in our inner cities and beyond.
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