Nina
Nina was new to Last Bell last year. She had trouble trusting our staff. She wouldn’t share her heart or her needs.
But after camp, everything changed.
Nina began to open up. She started coming to Stop the Cycle meetings to learn about parenting. She appreciates and wants mentorship from our staff, and asks for help when she needs it.
Camp is the most effective way to launch orphan-led families on a path of healing. And a whole family can go to a week of camp for just $1000.
One of our moms shared these thoughts about camp last year:
“Nobody loved me when I was a child. That’s why I didn’t know what ‘loving your child’ was at all. When I gave birth to my daughter, I did everything automatically. Only a month later, the understanding came to me that I am now a mother. It is extremely important for me to hear all this about family and love for children.“
Anya, Sasha, and Alina
Orphaned teens often feel unloved and unwanted. After an abrupt transition out of state care, they enter a world that seems totally indifferent to their needs.
Their isolation can turn into chronic unemployment, addiction, abusive and exploitative living situations, even suicide.
But Last Bell’s youth have a different experience. At camp, they discover they’re not alone. Just one loving adult can change everything, and our youth have a whole team!
Even with wartime inflation, just $400 sends an orphaned student to summer camp for a week. There, our youth learn about the Father of the Fatherless, who created them and loved them from the beginning.
Orphaned student Alina T. wrote, “Camp was filled with love and warmth from the leaders, and I had the opportunity to talk to a leader about personal matters. After camp, I wanted to go to church even more.”
In this one-minute video, staff member Christi and students Anya and Sasha share how camp opens hearts to God:
With a gift to camp, you can share the good news about Jesus with orphaned youth. It may be the very first time they hear that God created them and loves them.
Youth camp is in August, but the funds for housing and other costs are needed now. Dad Camps are in May, and family camp is in June. Will you make a gift toward camp today?