Summer of Hope

WHAT IS SUMMER OF HOPE?

Swimming, boating, horseback riding, gymnastics, soccer....these are but a few of the activities that make up a summer camp experience for children. What is unique about Summer of Hope is that the camp participants are orphans - children without families who reside in orphanages across the world. They travel to the U.S. and spend four weeks experiencing life with a family. Host families recruited from the community provide housing and care for the children during their stay. For the children, it’s a vacation away from the often grim, institutional setting of the orphanage. But it’s much more than that. It’s a chance for these children to be given a future and a hope for a better life. Every day thousands of children reach the age when they are no longer adoptable. Their greatest fear is being forced to leave an institution with no one to belong to and no place to call home. Through Summer of Hope, many of the children find permanent families as a result of their sojourn to the U.S. What greater gift can be given a child than the promise of a “forever” family? Please consider how you might be involved in this very worthwhile project by hosting a child or volunteering in some capacity. The rewards are beyond measure.

HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED:

  • Open your heart and home to a child in need
  • Be a host family
  • Be a child’s advocate
  • Help raise funds for this program
  • Arrange support services for the children
  • Donate funds to bring the children
  • Donate funds to assist families with the cost of adoption
  • Assist with summer camp activities
  • Pray for the children and their host families


SUMMER 2010 UPDATE

Eleven children are coming to Bozeman this summer for Summer of Hope 2010. Five of those children are from the Philippines and include a sibling group of three and two single children (Rael, Weeno, Melrod, Clarize and Ivan). Six of the children are from Colombia and include two sibling pairs and two single children (Marco, Luz, Kelly Joanna, Ana Maria, Stiven and Erica). We have seven families hosting. Four of those families are from Journey Church.

CONTACT INFO :
Jan Druckenmiller
The Sacred Portion Children’s Outreach
7104 Bristol Lane
Bozeman, MT 59715

406-586-5773
info@sacredportion.org

-or-

Nikole Greer
406-599-6633
nikoleraegreer@yahoo.com

Summer of Hope Information Sheets