70 for 70
Our goal is to have 70 monthly givers to sponsor 70 marginalized kids to attend camp through our Stand in the Gap program. Consider giving a kid a chance to have a life-changing experience at camp for only $35 a month.
Launched in 2010, Stand in the Gap has created a threefold focus to the ministry of “Camp Shalom”: Evangelism, Discipleship and a Missional Social Justice approach and has blessed over 1200 children, youth and also a number of our adult guests with “Special Needs.”
Stand in the Gap is an extension of our mission to be a community centered on Jesus Christ, transforming lives, and building His kingdom: Stand in the Gap is a camp sponsorship program that “transforms lives” when then attend camp; it is a process that sees poverty as a result of relationships that do not work, that are not just, that are not for life, that are not harmonious or enjoyable. “Poverty is the absence of shalom in all of its meaning. Poverty exists where one or more of the four foundational relationships for each person are broken: a relationship with God, with self, with others, and with the rest of creation.” Authors Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett, from When Helping Hurts.
Three different approaches to poverty alleviation exist: relief; the urgent provision; rehabilitation; the restoration to positive elements; and development; the process of ongoing change that moves moves all people involved closer to being in a right relationship with God, self, others, and creation. Jesus stated in scripture, Mark 14:7 “For you will always have the poor with you, and when you want, you can do good for them.” Our goal moving forward with SITG is to define “good” as the process of ongoing change, transformation, that moves a little boy or girl, a teen, or an individual with “special needs” closer to being in a right relationship with God, Jesus Christ, self, others, and creation. Surplus funds will be used to meet operational needs.
