The facility is designed to serve 40 families each week for a total of 1,200 families a year with 60 volunteers each week. When the permanent campus is completed, we will have the capacity to operate over 30 weeks a year instead of only 4 weeks. Staff and volunteer training will occur for the remainder of the year. The funds are now available to complete the construction of the permanent campus. The challenge now is to establish an Endowment Fund needed to support the program.
Construction is currently underway on the family activity center and the living units.
Our goal is to complete the campus by April, 2001. The building project includes the completion of the family activity center with a dining room capacity of 275 people, a large activity pavilion, teen center, adult conference center, arts and crafts area, nursery and tot center, indoor swimming pool, clinic and administrative offices. The family living center includes 40 suites, designed to house up to a family of six. Sixty volunteers will be accommodated in the volunteer living center. Facilities near the beach include a large gazebo, bathhouse, and marina.