Project #87289: Latino/Hispanic Youth Passport Camp Project

 

This project will provide scholarships to allow up to fifteen Latino/Hispanic youth from low-income immigrant families in Virginia to attend Passport Missions camp during the summer of 2009.  The goal is to provide these young people with a Christian camping and missions experience, and to provide ongoing follow-up after the return from camp.

If you would like to make a contribution, you may do so either by mail or online. If by mail, please make your check payable to CBF and mail it to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, P.O. Box 101699, Atlanta, GA 30392. Please designate your gift in the memo line of your check as: Latino/Hispanic Youth Passport Camp Project (Project #87289).

Detailed Description:

During the summer of 2009, LUCHA Ministries plans to take Latino/Hispanic youth from their summer youth program to PASSPORTmissions, a week-long camp held at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.  Many of these youth deal every day with life in low-income and dangerous neighborhoods, with abusive relationships, with limited English skills, with peer pressure, or with low self esteem.  The majority of them do not attend church on a regular basis.

 

Passport’s theme for this year, “[RE]MIX”, focuses on how “God’s love through Christ accepts whoever we are, whatever we bring and recreates it.  Forgiveness in Christ allows us to Re-Create our relationship with Him, causes us to Re-Think the way we live, and challenges us to Re-Act in ways that allow us to be the presence of Christ in the world.”  Our hope is that the camp experience will be a life-changing event for many of these youth as they learn of God's unconditional love and forgiveness for each one of them and have the chance to serve others as they learn what it means to be the hands and feet of Christ in our world.

 

Project Coordinators:  Greg and Sue Smith