Greetings from New Hope Camp & Conference Center.  We are approaching the end of another challenging year.

 

The Positives

• This year our summer camp program exceeded all our expectations. We doubled the numbers of registrations from 2020. We continued to follow our Covid-19 protocols and more importantly we continued to provide the high quality program that you expect from New Hope Camp.  After a year of limited social interaction and with few opportunities to get outside and play with friends, this summer provided what we know each child needed, just to be a kid again. You can never hide a smile behind a mask.

• We continued our remote learning program through to the end of the academic year.

• Starting in July we were able to offer our afterschool program, teacher workdays, and track out camp. We know that our children felt some degree of a normal schedule despite the continued mask mandate and Covid-19 restrictions.

 

Continued Challenges

• Our retreat business is slow to recover due to the Covid-19 mandates. In a normal year one third of our income comes from hosting retreat groups and meetings. 

• We continued to restrict use of the pool to patrons to ensure the health and safety of our campers.

• We are still unable to provide food service from our kitchen to our large retreat groups.

• We have stopped our Teambuilding Program for an indefinite period of time.

 

 

We hope that 2022 will bring a year of what was ‘normal’ in 2019.

The Covid-19 assistance money for 2020 and 2021 supported our operating expenses. No Covid-19 assistance money is expected for 2022. Regardless of income we still have bills to pay and buildings that need repaired.

 

We thank all those who have continued to support us with their donations to our Annual Fund, Emergency Operating Fund and Summer Scholarship Fund. We are truly blessed to have your commitment. We never thought we would have to face a financial challenge such as this, but we did. You helped us keep going. We will continue to keep going.  We do good, important work, we accomplish our mission which is to provide, within a unique natural setting, a place apart for persons of all faiths, to grow in their relationship with God, themselves, and others in an environment of Christian hospitality.

 

Many people love New Hope Camp and want to see it continue to grow and support all those who call this place home. Please consider us with your tax deductible year-end giving.

 

 

‘New Hope Camp and its staff have become a 2nd family to us.  My son comes home happy, dirty, and exhausted- I couldn’t ask for more!’ ~ parent of camper, 2021

 

New Hope Camp and Conference Center is a 501 C3 not for profit Church Corporation owned, supported, and operated by area Presbyterian Churches. For your tax records, our EIN is 55-0818277.