That's why friends and family joined Libby's mom and dad, Rollin and Margaret Wilson, in establishing this Fund in the Young Life Foundation in memory of Libby.

 

All proceeds will send kids from Memphis and surrounding communities to a Young Life camp each year.

 

Libby loved the fact that Young Life was for all kids and wanted every one of them to have an opportunity to go to camp.  She never wanted money to be the reason a kid stayed home.  She knew that for most kids who went they would come home saying, "This was the best week of my life!"  Many of them would begin a relationship with Christ that very week.

 

 

 

 

 

Rollin Wilson was introduced to Young Life at Fronteir Ranch by invitation of Young Life founder Jim Rayburn.  Rollin had been a camper at that very camp as a child when it was Roundup Lodge for Boys.  Rollin quickly fell in love with the gentle, laid back approach that Young Life chose to reach kids with the message of Jesus Christ, the most attractive message in the world.  Rollin's relationship with Jesus took on a whole new, personal meaning that week and for 50 years he approached thousands of young people with that same message and took thousands upon thousands of them to a Young Life Camp.  He took bus loads of kids to weekend camps in the fall, ski trips to Colorado over spring break, and often a whole bus load of kids just from his own club called CFAPTHI to a week of summer camp, almost always at his beloved Frontier Ranch.

 

Rollin loved the Young Life Camps.  Sure he loved them for their beauty and quality but most of all he loved them for what hapened in kids lives during that week of camp.  He often told us that if you can just get a kid to Young Life Camp in the summer you have a chance of seeing them begin a relationship with Jesus.

 

It is a great joy to us that money was given in his honor, too, to send more kids to camp.  We know a lot of them will see Rollin in heaven one day and say thanks for opening the door for them to be there, too.  Rollin will just shrug and say, aw shoot, I didn't have much to do with it.  Yeah, sure Rollin.

 

  

 

This is a picture of the dining hall at Frontier Ranch. 

 

 

E-mail Brad Baker to find out more about this or other Foundation Funds.