Ocean Lakes Teams Up With Little Pink Houses of Hope
Gilder
Radner once said, “The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all
that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up
again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have
had you will have lived.”
Meet Jeanine
Jeanine
Patten-Coble was diagnosed with cancer on June 15, 2009 and took a beach
vacation with her family the very next day. She came across an area of houses
and a playground that had previously been owned by the US Coast Guard but had
been abandoned for five years.
“All
week long, these houses kept calling to me, in a way that I cannot explain.
Sometimes you do not know what you are supposed to do until you trip across
your destiny. In my case, I feel like I ran right into it on a warm summer day
in my running shoes.
This
experience is what led me to develop the plan for Little Pink Houses of
Hope. The beach is a place where we were able to reconnect and get
stronger as a family as we prepared for the cancer journey. We have
returned throughout treatment to find that same solace and place of
peace. Little Pink uses a model of donated beach houses and volunteers to
create that environment of which I dreamed. I have never felt more alive
or moved by the plans that God has for me. I look forward to you dreaming with
me!”
Little Pink Houses of Hope
Their
mission is to promote breast cancer recovery by offering opportunities for
survivors to reconnect and celebrate life. They value creating hopeful
experiences through fostering loving relationships in a non-judgmental
environment. Their team provides free week-long vacations for breast cancer
patients and their families. They believe that, “A cancer diagnosis does not
just affect the patient, but the entire family. Every retreat is designed to
help families relax, reconnect, and rejuvenate during the cancer journey.”
Ocean Lakes Goes Pink
Throughout
the campground, you will find pink ribbons, as well as on each teammate’s name
badge. For some teammates, Breast Cancer Awareness Month hits close to home and
they show their support in other ways.
From
October 14th – 20th, Ocean Lakes Family Campground will
be hosting the 8th Annual Little Pink Houses of Hope Retreat. The
campground has been a retreat host since 2011 and looks forward to each year!
About
eight to eleven breast cancer patients and their families come to Ocean Lakes every October, which coincidentally happens to be Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Little
Pink Houses, which has about a dozen beach retreats in the United States every
year, arranges the details of the vacations so the families can simply show up
and start having fun.
Ocean
Lakes offers our facilities, golf cars, food for some of the events, goodie
bags and recreation activities to the families during their stay and help them
focus on having fun and creating family memories. Individual homeowners in
Ocean Lakes donate their houses for the families to stay for the week.
Here Is How You Can Help!
Little
Pink Houses of Hope relies on donations from the community
and volunteers to help with everything from planning activities to collecting
donations. If you are interested, contact the Myrtle Beach Retreat Coordinator,
Cristi Seay, at 864-444-8790 or cristi@littlepink.org.
For
more information on Little Pink Houses of Hope and how you can help, check out
their website.
Comments
Post a Comment