Friday, January 15th is the LAST day to apply for Camp LIFE at the $4,000 price. Starting January 16th the price for Camp LIFE is $4,300. Don’t delay, click here to submit your application TODAY.
We still have some availability in each of the 8 weeks of camp. All you have to do is pick a week and submit your application. This year is going to be great; you won’t want to miss out. Tell your friends…NOW is the time to sign up for Camp LIFE 2010! See you in Zambia!
Donations
We are so very grateful to all the ambassadors who throughout the year drop off or send donations to our office. It is always a joy to get to see and reconnect with those who are able to bring their donations by in person. When a box arrives by mail or UPS we get equally excited to see what is inside. The donations are always so well received as we distribute them to the children throughout the year in Zambia.
We have noticed that we receive a large majority of the donations we get each year in April and May as people are preparing to go to Camp LIFE. That is great except that we have to sort the donations and then redistribute them out to Ambassadors that have extra room and WEIGHT in the luggage they are packing for camp. At times this can be quite difficult and time consuming.
The BEST time for us to receive donations is actually RIGHT NOW! At the end of this month, we will load and send to Zambia three containers full of new tennis shoes, t-shirts, supplies for camp, furnishings for homes at the Village and other donations we have received throughout the year. The easiest and least expensive way to get your donations to Zambia is on these containers.
So if you have anything you want to donate, please bring it by our office between now and Friday, January 15. There is always someone at the office during normal business hours but if you need to drop stuff off at night or on the weekend, please give us a call and we would be happy to make sure someone is there to meet you. If you can’t bring your donations by the office and need to mail them to us, please have them arrive by the 15th as well. Our address is:
5005 West Royal Lane, Suite 252
Irving , TX 75063
Items needed include: new or gently used children’s and adult clothes, new boys and girls underwear, new boys and girls socks, school uniforms, towels, sheets, blankets, rugs, cloth diapers and pins, toiletries, lotions, soap, school supplies, children’s books, bibles, over the counter medications, soccer balls and equipment, games, toys, dolls, stuffed animals, Christmas decorations, and basically anything new or in good condition that you feel orphans in Zambia could personally benefit from (or even to fill houses and our Community Resource Centers).
As a side note, each container costs us approximately $20,000 to ship. To help donate towards the shipping of our supplies over to Zambia, click here.
Volunteers
Because of all the donations that have been coming in and will continue to come into the office over the next few weeks, we really need a lot of help sorting, organizing and boxing up all of your donations. This is essential before we can load them onto the containers and send them on their way to Zambia. If you have any available time over the next two weeks, we would just love your help! You can work during the day, at night or on the weekend. Whatever works for your schedule, we can make work for us. There is plenty to do, and even a couple hours of your time would be greatly appreciated. This is a great opportunity to serve together as a family, small group or bible study. To schedule a time to come and help, please email Andrew Knight or call him at: (972)620-2020 ext. 131.
This year there was Christmas in Zambia, but next year there will really be CHRISTMAS IN ZAMBIA!!! When our supply containers leave for Lusaka at the end of January they will have A LOT of Christmas decorations on them. Lighted Christmas trees, ornaments, and many other decorations are being sent to Zambia so that next Christmas EVERY house at the Tree of Life Children’s Village and EVERY Community Resource Center will be properly decorated. We want the children living in those homes to experience Christmas like never before.
As you take down and store away your Christmas decorations this weekend consider donating some of your excess supplies to the orphans of Zambia. Decorations that never make it out of your attic could bring so much joy to the children living at the TOL and CRCs.
If you are looking for an excuse to go shopping, feel free to take advantage of all the end of the season sales and purchase Christmas decorations for us to send over. We had so much fun buying (and saving money) on all the things you see in the photo above. We are excited to see what the decorations we take for granted will mean to those precious children.
All donations must be received in our office by January 15th in order to make it on the containers. If you have any questions please email Paige . We hope all of you have a very Happy and Spirit-filled New Year!!
The Camp LIFE Ambassadors of Week #3 this summer completely fell in love with a little girl named Selah. Selah has a particularly tragic story that horrified all who heard it. Her sponsor, Brooke Bassinger, and other Week #3 Ambassadors worked with Family Legacy, and soon Selah had been removed from her extremely abusive situation and moved into one our Community Resource Centers (CRCs). She is living there until a place opens up for her at The Tree of Life Children’s Village. The Ambassadors from Week #3 made it their personal mission to raise the $72,000 necessary to build “Selah’s House” in honor of her at the Tree of Life.
When Chris and Erin Phillips returned from Week #3 of Camp LIFE, they got straight to work organizing a unique golf tournament called “Birdies for Selah”. Chris was able to convince 7 other men to join him, each playing 90 holes of golf in one day on August 31st at the Hollytree Golf Club in Tyler, Texas. The premise was simple — make as many birdies as possible! Chris and Erin solicited pledges for every birdie made by the group. They asked everyone they knew and some people they didn’t know to make a pledge. Anyone who pledged $5 per birdie or made a straight donation of $500 or more was entered in a drawing for 4 tickets to the 2010 BCS National Championship at The Rose Bowl. The media in Tyler were notified of the event, and covered it very well. Click the media links below to see how God was glorified through the Phillips’ efforts!
When it was all said and done, all 8 men survived the day and made a total of 179 birdies (their goal was 150). The drawing for the BCS tickets took place live on the air of the local CBS affiliate’s morning show on Friday, September 4th and John Lookenbaugh of Coppell, TX was the lucky winner. Once the pledges and donations had been totaled, Chris and Erin raised just over $35,000 to go towards the construction cost of “Selah’s House” at The Tree of Life Children’s Village. God truly blessed their efforts and HIS HAND was all over this event! Family Legacy would like to sincerely thank the Phillips for their hearts in desiring to bring restoration to the Zambian orphans who need it most — way to live out your faith through being active and vocal Ambassadors for these kids!
Watch all the great media cover the Birdies for Selah event received –
News story a few days before the event…
Live on air story the morning of the event…
Sports coverage the night of the event…
Live on air drawing of the winner of the BCS National Championship Game tickets…