PROVISION
A HISTORY OF
BEAUTIFUL GIFTS “God had in mind for us to have Lake Champion and to use it to tell kids about Jesus. I’ll never forget the feeling when that first group of 50 kids stood up at the Say-So, and I was just trying to keep it together. The tears were flowing, amid the realization that God had given us a magnificent place.” — Doug Burleigh, Young Life’s fourth president
The 1986 acquisition of Lake Champion, our camp in lower New York, was God’s answer to our need for another camp on the East Coast. Scenes like the one Doug describes above happen at each of our camps, beautiful gifts our Father has bestowed upon us throughout our history. This year we opened another of these gifts — our first camp in Texas, the state where Young Life was born. Another “magnificent place” from our magnificent Creator!
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