What is
Hope for Kids?
At Hope for Kids, we are changing children’s lives by connecting kids from widely different backgrounds with each other, with caring and consistent mentors, and with nature’s miracles. Since 1992, a group of dedicated individuals has banded together to build community and inspire the lives of all youth – not by keeping them separate, but by bringing them together each summer in a beautiful 88-acre camp facility in Pennsylvania. More than 15,000 kids have built lasting friendships, memories and a vibrant spiritual community at Hope for Kids over the past 24 years.
What We Do
Hope for Kids (or, as we like to call it, “Camp”) strives to unite individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering connections through mentorship, service, and fun! Hope for Kids brings children between the ages of 8 to 17 to overnight camp for as short as one week and for as long as three months. Younger kids enjoy camp programs, such as R Camp, while teens have several special camping programs to choose from. Held in nature’s outdoor classroom, the emphasis is on teaching Christian values, leadership skills, teamwork, and learning to become environmental stewards and promote environmental sustainability. Campers build strong, life-changing relationships with counselors and mentors and many return year after year to enjoy sports, arts and crafts, talent shows, rock climbing, and other fun activities that build lasting friendships and memories that will remain with them forever.
Our Values
Hope for Kids teaches the values and traditions of the Christian faith. While we are faith-based, we are not faith-biased. Our emphasis is on providing all attendees with the opportunity to live in a safe, vibrant, culturally diverse and accepting community that we hope will cultivate future leaders and responsible citizens. Our goal is to build community and teach the values of serving, hard work, initiative, creativity, responsibility, and perseverance.
Mentoring is an important component of all our camp programs as counselors work closely with all our campers to model values and leadership skills. Our goal is for our counselors and mentors to model the way for campers, and to develop, what we like to call, a “Spiral of Service”. Our "Spiral of Service" fosters volunteer opportunities for our campers and volunteers so that they can continue to engage in service in every life stage
