LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY RETREAT INC

Lighthouse Family Retreat wants to strengthen every family that experiences pediatric cancer.

Seaside Retreats which offer:
•Community through daily group meetings with families experiencing similar circumstances
•Fun regular activities designed to restore joy in a carefree environment
•A spiritually uplifting support structure that extends beyond the week of the retreat
•Special and catered events throughout the week for children, parents, and the entire family

Weekend Retreats which offer:
•A unique retreat-like experience for families in their own community, without the need for travel or time off of work
•Connections with the local community who are looking for ways to meet families with needs and work together to find out how to best meet those needs over the long haul of treatment and issues that tend to occur alongside of the cancer journey

Restorative Resources:
•Podcast
•Youtube Channel
•Print Materials

As of 2019, 22 seaside retreats each year that capitalize on the beautiful escape of the beach to provide special attention for every member of the family. Currently, more than 300 Retreat Families each year find relief and engage in fun, family-centered activities to help them “feel like a family" again. Also currently, more than 1,400 Family Partners serve the Retreat Families to ensure a joyful, healing, restorative experience on retreats.

2020 brought a whole new challenge which we were able to creatively meet without hosing one single retreat. We took the year to develop our resources and ways to safely reach families in their own homes.

In 2021, we are hosting totally modified retreats that meet legal and ethical standards in order to still give families living through childhood cancer time away together.

Since our first retreat in 2000, we have served over 2000 families living through childhood cancer. We have had an increasing number of retreats over the past 18 years to 26 retreats planned for 2020. Our waitlist of qualified families that have applied and we don't have the capacity currently to serve has grown exponentially.

What's next is eliminating this list and putting every effort into serving each family that comes to us looking for hope, joy, and rest. We need to increase our budget and raise $1.5mil over our current operating budget to host each family currently on our waitlist.