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After School Program - Work or Service Camp - Single Parent Ministry
The Christian Retreat and Conference Center facilities include three buildings with kitchens, laundry rooms, a pavilion and amphitheater. Overnight guests can visit nearby scenic spots that include the Ocoee River Rapids, Parksville Lake, Hiwassee and Ocoee Rivers, the Tennessee Aquarium, the Southern Belle Riverboat, Ruby Falls, Rock City, the Lost Sea, and more. Accommodations for churches or groups for conferences, retreats, vacations, or as a home base for area activities. Options are available for group camps, family camps, grandparents and grandchildren's camp, or to serve as a base camp to provide the tools and opportunities for youth and adult leaders to design their own specific themes and activities like whitewater rafting. Group, family, or intergenerational work camps may provide opportunity to build a prayer garden, volleyball court, clear trails or creek bed, landscape, community outreach or a wide variety of other projects where the fees for the visit are determined by the project or activities chosen. Enjoy the 28-acre wooded area nestled in a beautiful valley.
Camp Etowah After School Program(ASP) was begun to target at-risk and latch-key children in the Etowah, Tennessee and McMinn County area to develop caring communities for children to escape the cycle of poverty and abuse and become, within a context of Christian values, contributing members of their society. We work in the Etowah facility with local volunteers to build character and hope by providing tutoring, behavior intervention, and positive role models to children in need while sharing the gifts of salvation and discipleship. The program is currently enrolling Grades 3, 4 and 5. Students continuing the program through graduation can go on scheduled outings such as those pictured below during trips to the aquarium and the Mayfield Dairy. A bus has been donated by Johns Manville to take children home from the program each day.
Become A Camp Etowah Volunteer
Please
enter into a close relationship with us to help us to help these children
by using your time as a volunteer, your money and your prayers. Visit, call,
mail, or email us now to let us know if you would like to become involved
in one or more ways or just receive further information about our organization.
If you have a heart for helping needy children, please contact us at once.
We look forward to meeting you to help develop a future for these wonderful
children in and around our local area. Work or Service Camp - This camp allows local Boy Scouts to come here to earn their Eagle Badges by performing work services to improve our facilities. They have previously put up doors on our amphitheater, cut a new trail to the most perfect place to camp on our property and set in posts for a deck area to be built onto our pavilion. Local families and church groups also come here to perform work services. Such as the youth class that came to mow our grass, and the Sunday school class that came to plant flowers, trees, and landscape here. A church group or family weekend or overnight work camp may provide opportunity to build a prayer garden, volleyball court, clear trails or creek bed, landscape, community outreach or a wide variety of other projects where the fees for the visit are determined by the project or activities chosen.
Single Parent Ministry has been spawned from the after school program because many of the children we provide services for are from single parent homes. We have proposed to teach finance and budgeting, as well as typing lessons and have ten computers and a small library available for the single parents to use. If you would like to contribute to our library for Single Parents; please mail books to Single Parent Ministry 361 County Road 475 Etowah, TN. 37331.
We are developing a referral system for Single Parents to obtain help from other sources. There are many churches in our community and LCW is looking to serve as a bridge connecting a family headed by only one parent with a local church. An overwhelming majority of single parent families do not attend church. At the time of a rapid increase of single parent families who do not go to church, there is a rapid decline in church membership. This is the "Hidden Mission Field", declares Theresa McKenna, and it's as large as the entire population of Central America! LCW would like to develop a local support network for any single parent who has a need. This ministry will meet monthly to provide emotional, physical, social and spiritual support. Childcare will be provided for these meetings. Through a planned ministry of friendship, caring Christians can reach out to hurting families and we will provide the focal point which will connect the single family with a mentoring group through Camp Etowah's After School Program.
Please contact us for information or to make a donation on any of these programs:
361 County Road #475
Etowah, TN 37331
(423) 263-2303 (tel/fax)
(423) 572-0574 (after hours cell)
aspdirector@littlechildren.org
All donations go to an interdenominational not-for-profit children's ministry incorporated in 1987 under the name Little Children of the World.