Camp Light

Camp LIGHT was established to provide services for kids with special needs and their families. Our goal is to ensure children with different medical, physical, and mental obstacles can enjoy the excitement of camp, and build lifetime friendships with other children with similar backgrounds. Summer camp is offered at no cost to the families. We also provide a summer camp experience for at risk youth. Children in foster care, homeless shelters, and others who would not normally have an opportunity to attend summer camp due to socio-economic situations will get a chance to go to camp. Camp LIGHT began holding summer day programs in 2014 and has continued to grow. Upon completion of the final building phase, Camp LIGHT will bring an overnight camp experience to over 600 children every year.

Our Mission
To show kids with special needs and circumstances that life is only limited by their imagination, and to give them new tools and skills, along with love and support, to become anything they can dream!

Camp LIGHT is a 501-c(3) non-profit summer camp for kids ages 6-17 (plus one week for adults) with medical and physical conditions and other special needs, as well as at risk youth. Thanks to generous sponsors and donors, campers attend at no cost to their families. We offer a summer camp experience that is adapted to the unique needs of our campers. Our goal is to ensure children with different medical, physical, and mental obstacles can enjoy the excitement of camp, and build lifetime friendships with other children with similar backgrounds. Programs will help families release the emotional, physical, and financial burdens caused by serious childhood illnesses, and will provide a peer network that reaches far beyond the LIGHT of a summer campfire.

Our Founding Sponsors
Our founding sponsors, a then 90 year old gentleman and his wife named Walton and Ada Thompson. Three years ago they believed in our dreams and mission. Walton feels very strongly that “helping those who are trying to make a difference in this world is what we need more of”. He and his lovely wife Ada, who passed away in July, 2013, donated a portion of the land to Creative Works Farm Inc., Camp LIGHT and sold the remainder to Scott and Cathy Balsley for a very reasonable amount. When we approached Walton with the idea, he stated that the farm was not for sale but it was for sale to us. With a love of children and the support from family and friends the hard work began and continues today.

Because of the Thompson’s generosity, the beauty of Camp LIGHT will be around for children and the community to use for an eternity. Walton, now 97 years old, is very proud of all of his accomplishments; a Merchant Marine, husband, brother, uncle, friend and generous man. What a way to leave a legacy. Generations to come will hear his story and want to follow in his footsteps.

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