Rockbridge Clears Obstacles In Kids’ Lives

This year marks 48 consecutive years of kids in Cleveland going to a Young Life resort.  This year, 54 kids from Bay and Lakewood got on a sweet charter bus and made their way to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Rockbridge!  This is a resort made for kids... racing zip lines, racing 100-foot slides, horseback riding, bubble soccer, beach volleyball, basketball… you name it and Rockbridge has it.

Many kids today prioritize sports and sports camps which can help individual skills, but no place builds a team like a YL resort.  From night one, kids are blown away by what they get to do and how they build relationships with kids from their hometown.  They experience so many amazing team building and friend building activities, they come home with new friendships they never thought they could have. 

Perhaps the greatest aspect of Rockbridge and any YL resort is that there is a  message of hope given.  Kids hear the greatest love story ever told of how Christ came to die for us so that we might have abundant life through Him.  This is a mind-blowing message in a day and age where it’s all about attempting to improve yourself and be a better person (a formula that for hundreds of years has failed).  No, these kids hear about someone who transcends time and space in a person who created the whole universe and all that’s in it. 

Yes, it was the greatest week of their lives…an opportunity to consider the claims of Christ…and a week that can change the trajectory of a life.  And that’s exactly what it did.

Thanks for supporting and caring about Young Life in Cleveland.  We couldn’t do this without you.

@AndyR