Cindy Bigelow, founder and director of CHOSEN International, alerted me to the following:
Christian camp designed especially for teens, adopted at any age, both domestic and international.
Dates: August 28-30, 2009
Place: Eagle Fern Camp (near Portland, Oregon)
Camp theme: “The Father Heart of God,” and finding your identity in who God says you are
Speakers: Adult adoptees, including:
- Kim Deardorff, a musician from Nashville who was found in a garbage dump as a baby in Korea. He just finished touring with some of Christian music’s top artists on the Winter Jam Tour.
- Stephanie Fast, an internationally-known speaker whose story is one of Focus on the Family’s most requested broadcasts ever (I’ve heart Stephanie speak; she’s amazing).
- Michael Froke, who was in foster care and never adopted. He now is an adoptive dad, and leads a large recovery ministry in Southern Oregon.
Cost: $100, which includes a popular CHOSEN hoodie. Some partial scholarships are available through Chosen. Also, some churches are paying the tuition for teens from their church to attend.
CHOSEN board member (and popular adoption author/speaker) Sherrie Eldridge has said:
Something extraordinary happens when adoptees connect with one another, a reassurance of being understood, an unspoken bond, a feeling of camaraderie, a sense of belonging…
Cindy writes:
The adult adoptees that we have as speakers have an incredible way of relating to the teens…they help them process many of the emotions related to feelings of abandonment, rejection, shame and loss by sharing the way God has taken them through these feelings to claim their inheritance from Him.
For more info and to download a registration form, visit the Events page at www.choseninternational.org.
CHOSEN International is a faith based nonprofit organization providing educational, emotional and spiritual support to teen adoptees and their parents.
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Thank you for sharing this. What a great and affordable opportunity. I am sharing this with an adoption coordinator at DSHS. I hope this camp is still going strong when my youngest ones are old enough to attend.
Are there any such camps in the Eastern United States for 2010? My daughter will be 18 in July and we’re looking for a camp like this closer to home (Maryland). Thank you!