To be good stewards with our time and talents, we will be donating a portion of our proceeds to someone in need. For our 2008 event we have chosen to help at-risk teens in Charles Hall Youth Services.

Charles Hall Youth Services offers group home foster care to over 100 at-risk teenagers each year, assisting them in making the transition from a troubled adolescence to mature, responsible adulthood. Youth of CHYS, ages 12 to 17 have been adjudicated into the foster care system for a variety of reasons. Many youth come from families who are unable or unwilling to provide adequate care for their teenagers. Still others are court-ordered due to drug or alcohol abuses, truancies, run-away charges or charges of delinquency or unruliness. A good number of the youth struggle with post-traumatic stress (triggered by some horrific act which happened to them when they were younger), mental illnesses (especially depression and anxiety), or attention deficit disorder. Many struggle with thoughts of suicide, eating disorders, and/or the self-destructive acts of mutilation.

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27.