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Meet The Staff: Alyssa
Alyssa served as the Staff Counselor on our Laurelville team. She led Bible studies and created intentional environments where our team could slow down and grow in their own relationships with God while serving at camp..
The staff experience at Laurelville can be summed up in one word. Busy. Alyssa served as the Staff Counselor on our Laurelville team. She led Bible studies and created intentional environments where our team could slow down and grow in their own relationships with God while serving at camp. Read about her Laurelville experience below.
My name is Alyssa Tyson, and I was on the PKF team for Laurelville. My role was to help create a healthy, God-centered, and unified staff culture. I thought this would be a way for me to pour into the staff, but I was so much more filled and poured into while being there. The joy and depth of every staff member were inspiring. We were able to laugh, pray, cry out, have fun, and rejoice with each other. So many people from different backgrounds and situations yet brought together as a family because we all have the same Father. The friendships and relationships that I’ve built are such blessings. Hearing from people even after camp is over has been so encouraging. Each person came into Laurelville with such specific gifts, and when paired with everyone else’s gifts, God was able to flow through his body of people and students came to know him. I saw the blessings of God on this camp, and I believe it is because his followers were obeying His call on their lives. I have been challenged by the staff, speakers, and students to live freely in the life God has given us and to trust that he will take our faithful obedience and will work miracles. I didn’t know where God was taking me next in my adult life journey, but after Laurelville, I’ve been reminded that I don’t need to know all the answers, I just need to follow the One who does have the answers. His promises go with me wherever I will go.
2018 Players 4 Kids Gala
What a night! Together we reached our goal and raised over $200,000 for kids in Pittsburgh and Haiti! Thank you for your generous support, and special thanks to the team that made it happen!
What a night! Together we reached our goal and raised over $200,000 for kids in Pittsburgh and Haiti! Thank you for your generous support, and special thanks to the team that made it happen!
View all of the photos from the night here or on our Facebook page.
Photos by Redford Photography
It's hard to concisely summarize everything that goes on in a year here, but we did our best. Take a look at the videos below and see for yourself. Our best is yet to come!
2017 The Numbers
We have so much to be thankful for from 2017! God blessed our work in incredible ways. We hope you’ve enjoyed following along as we’ve gone from summer camp to the life-changing work of Dr. Wislyn at CHIDA, and everything in between.
We have so much to be thankful for from 2017! God blessed our work in incredible ways. We hope you’ve enjoyed following along as we’ve gone from summer camp to the life-changing work of Dr. Wislyn at CHIDA, and everything in between.
We’re committed to our work and being a nonprofit organization, part of that work is wise stewardship and financial accountability to you, our supporters. We are proud to be accredited by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and rated a Guidestar Gold nonprofit organization. In 2016 we shared that 91¢ of every dollar went directly to our programs on the ground. Today, we’re excited to share that we dedicated 91.8¢ of every dollar to our programs on the ground. One of the ways that we were able to increase the percentage of money going out the door was by lowering our internal costs. We strive to keep our internal costs minimal so we can keep raising the bar and serve our students and leaders better. We’re looking forward to an awesome 2018!
