2022 Retreat Applications Now Open!
One of my most fond Christmas memories isn’t with extravagant gifts, or where everything looked like a Hallmark movie. Christmas in our home growing up was very simple. My mom was a single mom of five kids, and money was always tight.
A Year as the Beautifully Flawed Foundation
One of my most fond Christmas memories isn’t with extravagant gifts, or where everything looked like a Hallmark movie. Christmas in our home growing up was very simple. My mom was a single mom of five kids, and money was always tight.
He Is Risen and You Are Too!
The surf scene might seem void of seasons. The ever temperate climate that categorizes the lifestyle seems as perpetually warm as the lifestyle that accompanies it. It just looks easy. What we have done with the Beautifully Flawed Foundation is to demonstrate and honor the reality that life often strikes us in the blows of deep winter […]
2021 Retreat Applications Now Open!
Our 2021 retreat applications for young men and women who face limb difference are now open! This year we will be hosting our Beautifully Flawed Retreat for young women and our Forge Retreat for young men at the same time this October in Del Mar, California. Although the two retreats will coincide, they are two separate events so that […]
Welcome, Aiko!
We are excited to share that we have added a new member to our team who we know will help to make 2021 our best year yet! Aiko Loogman was an influential help at our 2019 Beautifully Flawed Retreat and our 2020 virtual Beautifully Flawed Retreat where she fell in love with the work we are doing. In her […]
The Tides Are Changing – A Message from Sarah Hill
As a surfer, I get excited to paddle out just before the tides change, eager for the sets to roll in with a more consistent pace. You might begin your session paddling for a wave here or there, but then the excitement hits a peak when you see the first good size wave roll through. […]
The Beautiful Leap of Faith – A Message from Sarah Hill
Six months later, ready to attend, she was having doubts that she could actually make it! I shared that although I did not know what she was facing, I would be as a sister to her, and no matter what she needed, I would be there to help. I assured her that she was not […]
Thankful for YOU – A Message from Sarah Hill
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” -William Arthur Ward Friends of Bethany would like to wish you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving! We are so very grateful to each of you for all of your love, support, and care over the years. There is […]
A Tree of Life – A Message from Sarah Hill
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12 This has been one of those verses that I have had to revisit again and again in 2020. With every setback, disappointment, or cancelation of a plan long awaited for, I have had to turn to […]
Finding Hope in Disappointment – A Message from Sarah Hill
There was no harder call to make than to postpone our 2020 Beautifully Flawed Retreat. I think throughout this past year, many can relate to holding out hope for some scheduled event to remain on the calendar, and then the reality of it not happening coming to fruition. My greatest concern was two sided: many of […]