About Camp Agape
Healing Hurting Hearts
We are a ministry bringing hope to grieving children and families through in-person programs and our founding Camp in a Box model.
Our mission
A healing place for hurting hearts
Our passion is to provide a healing place for hurting hearts by fostering hope in the grief journey through unconditional love, faith, empathy, compassion, trust, and courage.
For more than 25 years, Camp Agape has served a community of grief across Texas. What began as a single camp has grown into four programs — a bereavement Camp Agape, the after-school Footprints program, a whole-family Family Retreat, and Camp in a Box, which sends our model to organizations in other communities.
Every program is free of judgment and full of the ordinary joys of camp: fishing, climbing, singing, s’mores. Woven through them are art, music, game and play therapy led by trained volunteers, so that a child can do the hard work of grieving while still getting to be a child.
What guides us
Our values
Unconditional love
Every child is welcomed exactly as they arrive.
Faith
A faith-based environment that is safe and accepting of all emotions.
Empathy
Grief is met with understanding, never with a timetable.
Compassion
Trained volunteers walk beside each camper and family.
Trust
A safe place where hard feelings can be spoken out loud.
Courage
Children leave carrying hope they did not arrive with.
By the numbers
25+
Years serving children in a community of grief
4
Programs delivered across Texas
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Children served to date
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Volunteers trained
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