Foster Care Takes a Village

Volume 10, Number 4

“I know God must love me—
because he let me see this place.”

President's Letter President’s Letter

December 2025| David Rogers

This Place Feels Like Home

He was a sharp kid—talking about limestone and how water shapes a canyon. I hadn’t prompted him to talk about God, not directly. He just brought it up: “This place feels like home.”

Art Poetry

December 2025| Marcus Goodyear

Blessing of the Kindling

How do you start your day? Try this little poem.

Canyon LLYC

November 2025| Beth Avila

The Hupomone Challenge

Inspired by legacy wisdom and modern endurance events, LLYC is teaching young leaders how to suffer well through a new athletic challenge.

Leadership Podcast

June 2025| David Brooks

Repairing What Politics Can’t Fix

David Brooks on Trust, Morality, and Our Search for Meaning.

Canyon Laity Lodge Family Camp

December 2025| Beth Avila

The First Supper

Laity Lodge Family Camp’s opening meal—simple, safe, and shared— turns a long day of travel into the beginning of community, new friendships, and rest.

Community Laity Lodge

December 2025| Beth Avila

Moments from the Lodge

Three Laity Lodge guests provide glimpses into memorable moments where God met them in beauty, vulnerability, and connection.

Canyon Laity Lodge Family Camp

Foster Care Takes a Village

For Rebecca Welch, Laity Lodge Family Camp was part of the package that came with marrying her husband, Jamin. Jamin’s parents, Melissa and Ray Welch, started attending Laity Lodge retreats as newlyweds, in 1972. Melissa’s parents were at the first
Laity Lodge retreat ever in 1961. When Rebecca and Jamin married, she knew they’d be spending many of their August anniversaries in the Canyon, carrying on the family tradition.

Foster care, or adoption, was a bit trickier.