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Sagrada Scholarship Bible Camp (SSBC) is a nonprofit, non-denominational Bible camp that is free to boys and girls ages 8-11 and returning senior campers. It has been built and maintained through faith and much prayer. A board of directors runs the camp and the founders are Cliff and Susie Johnson. He and his family are full-time missionaries serving the camp since the first camping season in 1997, when they started with 2 teepees and 8 boys. Last summer in 2010, the camp served 302 children, both boys and girls. Everyone at SSBC is a volunteer.
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The goal of SSBC is to bring the Gospel to children who might not otherwise have the opportunity to go to camp. Most of the children come to the camp through referrals from Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Ministries, which means they have one or both parents in prison. Most live with relatives, a single parent, or foster parents. Many of the children have never heard the name of God used in any other fashion than in a cuss word and are starved to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Each child is given a Bible and is taught how to use it. There are 4-5 campers to every counselor. They sleep in teepees or covered wagons. The camp has swimming, fishing, games, songs, campfires, and other camp activities, but the camp’s emphasis is in presenting the Gospel, and in training the children to live their lives according to the Word of God. Each month, the camp corresponds with the children to encourage them in their walk with the Lord.
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The children do not have to pay anything at all to come to the camp. Individuals who love the Lord, Sunday school Classes, churches, and clubs sponsor these children. The cost of each child to attend is $100. The money is used for their food, transportation, insurance, correspondence, arts and crafts, and the many other items that are involved in the camping experience. There is a general fund also that is used to defer camper cost, build and maintain the facilities, pay utilities, physical camp insurance, camp van maintenance, and numerous other items it takes to run a camp.
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