Local RV Resort Helps Further the Mission of Hope Children’s Home

Since 1968, Hope Children’s Home in Tampa, Florida, has worked with the Christ-centered mission to offer care, warmth, stability, and a family-like atmosphere to babies, children, and teens in crisis due to neglect, abuse, or unstable home situations. The foster care home, with additional locations in New Mexico and Honduras, provides an extensive array of social services to children and their families, including residential care for as long as necessary. Hope Children’s Home is the recipient of numerous accolades and notable donations, including a recent donation of 1,000 boxes of cereal from the Ja-Mar RV Resort in nearby Port Richey, Florida.

Accredited by the State of Florida, the foster care home relies entirely on private donations to fund its operations, which run the gamut from food, clothing, and other necessities to educational support for the young adults who leave its care to enter college. Executive director Mike Higgins and his staff and volunteers provide an on-site Christian school, along with numerous opportunities for young people to develop spiritually, intellectually, and athletically as they live on 55 acres of rural, tree-shaded land. The team also put their trust firmly in God, remembering to pray regularly for new opportunities for partnerships with local organizations and donors.

The Ja-Mar Rv Resort reached out to Dr. Higgins to offer support at a time when nonprofits of all types were seeing their finances negatively affected by the economic downturn of the COVID-19 pandemic. The RV Resort and the foster home’s leadership were excited by the partnership, recognizing their shared vision that the needy within the community should be helped by those within the community itself.