by TheTwins | May 17, 2016 | Camp Akiva, Fundraising, Onward & Upward, Our Father's Children, Royal Famiy Kids Camp, Summit
The 2016 Ambassador’s of Hope Dinner & Auction was a great success with the largest attendance to date and the most funds raised in one night in OFC’s history! To all who attended, we cannot thank you enough. Emmitt Smith’s message was powerful and his generosity...
by TheTwins | May 16, 2016 | Fundraising, Our Father's Children, Royal Family Mentoring Club, Top
This month marks my 6 year anniversary with Our Father’s Children. In the month of May, each year, we’ve hosted our Summit retreat with high school teens & each year, I’ve driven the van containing the girls attending retreat. Most times,...
by TheTwins | Mar 10, 2016 | Onward & Upward, Our Father's Children
This hit my heart especially hard today because I just came back from a weekend retreat for children who are in foster care/adopted. I hear their stories and I wonder … how I would act if my parents didn’t want me or had addictions that were too strong? I...
by TheTwins | Jan 22, 2016 | Fundraising, Our Father's Children, Top
Tickets for the 2016 Ambassadors of Hope Dinner & Auction are now on sale. The event will be held on Saturday, April 2nd at the Hurst Conference Center. As you may know, we are excited to have Emmitt Smith as our featured guest speaker. Some of you know him as the...
by TheTwins | Nov 11, 2015 | Our Father's Children, Summit
It’s fall…and change is in the air. The evenings are finally cooler and the trees are beginning to burst forth in color! It’s fall…and lives are changing too! Many friends gathered at Camp Akiva last month for the SUMMIT retreat. Seeing a friend only a couple of...
by TheTwins | Oct 16, 2015 | Camp Akiva, Onward & Upward, Our Father's Children
Last year at this time, we held our first retreat at Camp Akiva. The chapel was not totally complete nor was all the new buildings for lodging. So this year, with all complete, the teens at Onward & Upward just kept saying the place was amazing and it was so cool...
