Laity Lodge Youth Camp Bringing Faith and Hope to Haitian Children

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 06/18/2010 | Staff

[Patriot1259]

Jacob’s Well Youth Camp in Haiti First of Its Kind

KERRVILLE, TX- This summer, Laity Lodge Youth Camp (LLYC) will reach the largest number of campers in its 44-year history! Of the 1700 total campers anticipated this summer, 400 campers will hear the message of Jesus in their own French Creole language 1,788 miles away at Jacob’s Well Youth Camp near Limbe, Haiti, from July 4-10, 2010. Through a program named Outbound Haiti, this will be the first time LLYC is venturing beyond the borders of the United States to share the great news about God’s extravagant love for each of us.

Outbound is a program of LLYC created for older youth campers and designed to reach destinations, cultures, and experiences beyond Texas’ Frio Canyon, the LLYC home base. This summer, 24 high school campers and 13 staff will extend themselves as servant leaders to a remote village of children and teenagers in a beautiful mountain region of northern Haiti.

Ironically, this trip to Haiti has been in the developmental stages for two years, but January’s earthquake only served to hasten LLYC’s desire to minister to this country. For the past 10 years, LLYC has hosted a steady stream of Haitian campers on the H.E. Butt Foundation camp property near Leakey, Texas.

[Prov1322]

Very nice story...slight nit to pick with the writer.

While Limbe is a very small town, it is not a remote village. It is a reasonably (for Haitian standards) prosperous area just outside of the primary mountain region, right on the (only) National Highway between Port-au-Prince, Cap Haitian and the areas to the NorthWest.

Always loved my trips through the mountains, to Limbe and onward to Okap.