Thank you to all who joined our inaugural Sporting Clay Tournament, Clays for Camp in October! With a new shooter clinic included in the price of admission, the tournament was a fun event for brand new and experienced shooters alike. We look forward to bringing back this event for a second year in fall 2020. Keep an eye out for a save the date and additional information!
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in and sponsored our 2019 Golf Tournament Fundraiser in May. We raised enough to fund an additional year of camp and are on our way toward several projects including tree removal and camp improvements. We hosted five camps this summer and had the incredible opportunity to introduce over 100 kids to Jesus and the great outdoors. We couldn’t do this without your help and generous support!
We’ll have five camps total this year:
Girl’s Camp: June 29 – July 5
Boy’s Camp: July 6 – 12
Boy’s Camp: July 13 – 19
Girl’s Camp: July 20 – 26
Boy’s Camp: July 27 – August 2
Our biggest fundraiser of the year is our annual Golf Tournament. This year the tournament was held on May 14, 2018 and it was a huge success in raising funds for our summer camps for youth. Due to big weather events in the mountains where our camp is located, and now beetle kill trees that must be felled, we needed to raise even more funds than ever before.
We cannot say thank you enough to all who sign up to participate, volunteer, and contribute to this worthy cause. We appreciate you and acknowledge all that you contribute to Morning Star Outreach. We couldn’t do this without your help and generous support!
Morning Star Outreach is facing the felling of numerous massive trees on it’s camp property in in the Bear Valley area of California – a costly and unexpected expense for this non-profit whose mission is to provide free summer camps for disadvantaged youth from inner cities.
Pine bark beetles typically attack weaker or distressed trees that have been impacted by drought or other situations. The beetles burrow into a tree’s inner bark and feed on it, and in the process infect it wit fungal diseases. Once they become active again, the tree infect are considered dead.
Removing the trees before the beetles explode from the trees later in the spring is become a priority. The best time to abate is during February and March due to reduced beetle activity and their life cycle.
There’s a real concern in the Bear Valley area about the infestation because the pine beetle infestation is spreading rapidly, and is an extremely difficult situation manage due to the density of the forest and size of infected trees. The cost to remove trees can easily run into the tens of thousands – money MSO allocated for adding more summer camps and making needed improvements to the camp itself.
As a result, Morning Star Outreach is asking for donations of any amount to help to defray the costs of cutting down the infested trees on their property.
We recently purchased new, badly needed, appliances for our camp kitchen. The appliances are going to vastly improve MSO’s kitchen, and no doubt reach happy campers with wonderful meals prepared just for them.
This operating expense totaled $11,000 – a bit hit – but something much needed.
As you can see from the images below, Bear Valley, California got an unusually large amount of snow this past winter! Despite the historic levels of snow, camp is open and looking lush and green for our campers this year.
Morning Star Outreach’s first camp of summer 2017 begins in just a few days on July 1st, and we couldn’t be more excited to begin welcoming our camping kids to what we know is the ‘happiest place on earth’.
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For a full camp schedule, click here.
Volunteers: from transport to cooking to leading activities and administrative tasks – we can always use more hands! Volunteers please email us at blessedb777@gmail.com or call us at the number below.
Questions about MSO’s summer camps? Call us at 510-886-8558.
The 2017 Golf Tournament on May 15th was a resounding success. We are grateful to our sponsors, volunteers, and those who contributed in many ways large and small in order to fund MSO summer camps for kids. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
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It’s here – our wrap-up of the exciting and blessed year that was 2016 for Morning Star Outreach! Based on our success in 2016, we feel we will be able to offer another girl’s camp in 2017! Click here to get the full report.