The Urban Hope Summer Missions Experience

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• Since 2003, the Navigators have sponsored the Urban Hope summer camp.
• For seven weeks each summer, the camp serves 30-40 youth in grades 5-10 (primarily residents of Walltown).
• The camp has five main focuses:
  • entrepreneurship and career development
  • leadership development
  • spiritual development
  • recreation
  • financial literacy
• We maintain a ratio of one counselor to four campers and we recruit the counselors from campus ministries across the nation, as well as from the community.
• We give our youth the opportunity to interact with spiritually mature adults from various backgrounds who respect, care for them, and believe in them.  The lives of the campers and the counselors are transformed through the friendships that are established.
• Dollars and Sense - An important educational component of the camp is Dollars and Sense.  It helps students become financially literate.  Specifically, participants learn about budgeting, credit, interest, investing, and managing checking & savings accounts.
• Entrepreneurship - The entrepreneurship component offers the teenagers business skills training and an opportunity to experience many of the different aspects of operating their own for-profit small business.