From Carp's Desk

The summer of 2021 was the first year that we partnered with Angel Tree™. Through Prison Fellowship Angel Tree, churches help support the families of prisoners year-round through delivering Christmas gifts on behalf of incarcerated parents, sending kids to summer camp, facilitating one-day sports camps, and more.

This year, Hidden Acres hosted over twenty campers through the Angel Tree program.

Two of the children included in this group were a set of siblings, Kassie and Timothy. They came to us through this program; hesitant, and unsure of what to expect, but in less than one week, they were impacted in a tremendous way. Kassie started off very reserved and hesitant to connect. We may have thought she was not impacted, but by the time she left she was in tears because she did not want to leave. They begged their grandparents to come back. Kassie and Timothy came to a total of three camps, including a day camp where the grandparents paid to stay at a hotel so they would not miss out on what they deemed a life-changing experience for their grandchildren.

Prison Fellowship invests on these type of camps because they want to break the generational cycle of incarceration. We believe that the message of the gospel can do just that.