I’d like to thank whoever referred me ti the site to get certified as a grantwriter. And the person who gave me pointers on my Camp Yesu business plan.
I now have six grant essentials classes under my belt and have two more courses nearly completed.
Next, I will work on those tip I was given for biz plan, then finding the right piece of land.to begin applying for the grants.
Please keep Camp Yesu in prayer for ALL the pieces to come together to get it up and running. Also, when it All comes together, we will need partners and staff……
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Awesome! Those will be much needed Now the BIG, Most Important questions; Who do you say Jesus is? Who is He to you? Do you have a close personal relationship with Him?
My husband is retired from Boeing and was formerly a chef and has a business management degree and we ran our own dog resort we built and started with our kids which provided boarding, grooming and daycare for twelve years and the previous decade we were licensed dog breeders. I was our certified groomer for six of the years of our business until my back forced me to give that up as it was pushing me toward my third back surgery for herniated disc and degenerative disc disease. I spent a few years as an in home caregiver with a handful of patients. (Which is where I injured my back while doing transfers) where I was sent to care for a man on hospice before being trained for it. We raised three kids and now help alot to care for our six grandchildren. I have a background in FFA, 4H and showing my goats in the county and community fair. I am a newly professional realistic artist of watercolor and pencil following a thirty some year hobby.
I grew up with an alcoholic and homeless dad which placed the burden on my heart for the homeless and addicted. Many personal experiences and losses have touched my life for wanting to help others as well. When God placed this camp on my heart we closed our business and sold our home and closed our dog business and went to work in a Christian Camp as kitchen and hospitality staff with our son and his then girlfriend whom he later married before she left him a year later due to some serious mental issues she is still having. The camp us where my husband had an aortic dissection I nearly lost him from and circumstances with the directors pulling illegal stunts and falling through on promises in our contract for housing and other things like coverage for overtime and days off forced us to resign. We all really enjoyed working there and serving others there though. I am also a prayer warrior and long to help others and bring them to Christ.
Gheez we have a bunch in common, and I’ll bet your husband & I would be fast friends too?! I had 11 years with Boeing, 7 with Lockheed and the rest of 31 years with mostly major Aerospace corporations. Aside from career stuff tho, personally Jesus saved my (what I thought was full) empty and spiraling life. I come from a family of blue-bloods and all alcoholics. Being a child of 60’s-70’s I dabbled in drugs too; a lot. I’m 10 years sober and over 4 w/out dope. At my lowest point I begged for His forgiveness and it came from my heart…and was supernaturally transformed. Long story but I prayed for 3 days solid until it occurred; I needed it that bad. I think I mentioned that I preached? My ex-galpal owned her family’s country chapel but there was no plumbing and we couldn’t find a preacher, so WE DID IT. The first man who tried could barely read and he wasn’t at all inspirational so I took my focused personality and gave it a try. I’d spend lots of time preparing my ministering around a theme, studied and wrote sermons. We had hymnals and would lead singing. It became so much fun as I’d add humor & current events…we eventually grew the congregation to about 50 regulars. The people loved it & said so! The children would color & play up front. We had the spirit until the guy (I replaced) broke-in with his Son (we figured out) and stole the 160 year old bell and vandalized the pews. My ex had enough & we shut it down. I’m not an expert on The Bible but that fire never really left me & I yearn for it again. I think satan gave me throat cancer to shut me up?!! But Christ has led me to become an alternative cancer therapy student, and I’m doing fairly well in remission. My Mother was a dog breeder and member of US Equestrian Team so I grew up around animal husbandry and stables. I was walking polo ponies at 13 and mucking stalls was my first job. You mentioned goats? I was just considering getting a couple, but right now my puppy & her injured leg are taking all my time, sigh. Now I’ve also just rescued a family of feral Manx cats and the kittens are getting BIG! Most importantly though I raised 3 wonderful children but no Grandchildren blessings yet. My 3 are all semi successful all around 30 and THANK GOD no early pregnancies or major substance issues. I did my best there although missed a lot of their teen years being a warfighter in Iraq/Afghanistan. My youngest was born in Riyadh Saudi Arabia! I’ve retired in East Tennessee on a TVA lake and am currently rebuilding a used bass boat as I was a tournament bass fisherman in my early 20’s, before it was a big $ sport. But I’m always restless looking for new endeavors and your project looks like a possibility as I believe Christ has bigger plans still for me than just floating around a lake? That just made me laugh…I’m a nut.
Wow!! There’s alot of really useful skills in there that this camp will need. So, military background huh? What branch? Thank you for your service. Would rescue missions of trafficking victims be of interest to you to participate in? It would entail our own version of a seal team.
I was USAF in the early 80’s but worked for the DoD with the Army for over a decade of my career in the mideast. You mentioned challenges in another post; learning to overcome adversity builds strength of character especially in high stress situations. It made me resistant to fear if I could bundle it all into one phrase? Rescuing trafficking victims is for a younger group of men tho, I’m partially disabled namely my feet. I can walk & stand, but not run anymore. Long story…
Currently disabled here. In a couple separate battles. One is my second appeals process that goes before a judge for social security disability and the other in second appeal for my third back surgery. I have sciatic and herniated disc from a back injury on job in 2006 from lifting a hospice patient while doing home health care as well s a niece that had become too heavy for me.
Well, could you be the brains and planner of rescue missions?
Yeah, when my mom and stepdad got married I was eight and he had goats, rabbits, dogs and cats. We had alpine, nubian, and toggenburg. They were fun and constant work. Doesn’t South Carolina have alot of angell oaks? That’d be a great treehouse tree!! Perhaps sometime you could sit down together with you and talk about the camp personally face to face? I will try and type up my list of property possibilities today. Had the grandbabies the last couple days. My daughter has been helping to care for her father in law who just got out of hospital with covid a week ago after nearly dying. They actually called his wife and told her to ‘come say your goodbyes, he’s dying’’ after not letting her see him since his admission three weeks before. Anyway my daughter has been so exhausted, she needed a break from the kids, so . Grama and Papa to the rescue. They are constant busy and noisy but I wouldn’t trade em for the world.
First, give your daughter a hug from this stranger, she’s been through the RINGER!! I’ve lost complete respect for the halthscare INDUSTRY…but that’s a rant for another time. Thank God he made it through that, it’s now gotten where the caregivers are more dangerous than the illness?! Ok, I’d love to go through your list, at your leisure? Just reading so far I’m sure your first prerogative would be to be near your family and I get that, so you probably have a radius centered around Missouri? Or not? Another consideration is not being too remote as visitors would be more apt to be attracted to something within an hour or so from home-base? I agree we need to talk vs writing a lot of this but I have a current issue going on with my throat aka recovering from laryngitis so let’s start with your list and go from there? God Bless!!
Funny story, When I met my husband, it was through an old boyfriend I had stayed friends with who set up with him. I had run into the old boyfriend’s mom and she gave me up to date contact info. When I first called, (my now husband answered) and I’m sure I sounded like a frog as I had just had my tonsils out. There’s more to that story, but later…
Likely you would be friends, I agree. We are in Missouri, right next door to you (state-wise). We bought an old 38 acre farm we plan to take self sufficient as a homestead. Our son has a mix if poultry he is already raising here. He got a job pretty quickly at a transmission rebuild place, now I just want to see him build a family. His wife left him two yrs ago just after their first anniversary. She had alot of mental issues from her childhood abuse and trauma. One if our girls and family live in attached mother in law which is cool. Our other daughter and family is a half hr from us at her in laws. Hey, what do you think of the idea of treehouse cabins for the camp? As a kid, my dad got me hooked on the idea of building a treehouse, but like everything else, alcohol robbed that too. My stepbrother and I got a platform done in the treehouse we tried to build as kids. Ever since my dad’s idea though, I have been a treehouse nut. Thought about building some her and turning our farm into a B&B with treehouse cabins, maybe eventually, but think how exciting for a kid to live in a treehouse when they just came out of a trauma situation. I kinda never grew up in that respect, I mean the name Julie means ‘youthful and one guided by truth’
I LOVE the idea!! As teenagers myself & a pair of twin brothers I hung out with built an enormous tree house-platform over 50 feet up in a Beech tree…of course we’re not talking that high but we did that. Great memories. A few years back I helped build and stock a fishing pond at the Isaac Walton Conservation club I belonged to, and we organized an annual Wounded Warriors day away from the VA Hospital…a resounding success every year. Changing of flag ceremony with a USMC Contingent kicked it off. Fishing is so healing, speaking of trauma victims. Just a thought? Wow, my gears just started turning… 😁👍🏽
You could also teach fishing to kids. What about hunting or foraging? I’m a rock freak also since my Grama taught me to beachcomb for agates on Olympic Penninsula in WA. I used the meager amount of money my dad left when he passed way for a commercial rock tumbler then picked up a combo unit (slicer, grinder, polisher) at a swap meet but recently got new portable equipment with first stimulus check. Man for our old church in Washington had a rock shop and he taught lessons in cabochan and wire wrapping. My husband and I hd a house in AZ for a year as investment and I joined a rock and gem club and learned alot about rockhounding. I’d like to teach kids these skills, the. There’s sewing, pottery, carpentry, etc;