Over 1300 people from 26 States celebrated the joy of adoption at the 2007 Children's Hope Reunion Picnic 

Children's Hope 
Reunion Picnic 2008

Mark your calendar for July 12 , 2008
10:30am - 2:30pm

 

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in St. Louis, MO
Application Form  Click Here!  ► HTML file  or   PDF file
All registrations are by check and sent by ground mail

Deadline: July 3rd


View a short video from last year’s picnic!

 

If your registration is not received by July 3, please join us but bring a sack lunch


Lunch is at 12:00 Noon
Registration required to eat.

●You will receive a lunch tag when you stop at the registration table on July 12th●
 

 

 

   
     Family Gathering Spot: $89 / Night (call the hotel for this special rate)
     Marriott West 
     314-878-2747
     free Shuttle to the picnic, malls, golf courses and restaurants
 


Click on map below for
an enlarged map to
 the CHI National Reunion Picnic

 

     How to Get There
  •  I-270 to Manchester Road (west) take nearly 2 ½ miles to 
      Weidman Road take a right (north) up to the Queeny Park main
      entrance.

   •  Follow the entrance road all the way around and park near the Arena

   


                                               From the Marriot-West or I-40/64

  • Take Mason Road south for 2 miles to Manchester Road turn right, head west a little more
    than 1/2 mile to Weidman Road turn right to travel north to the Queeny Park main entrance

  • Follow the entrance road all the way around and park near the Arena

Friday Night
Night of Hope

Join other Children’s Hope families
at the Marriott West for a fun relaxed evening as we address a
Critical Need for the Vietnam Orphan Nutrition program

5:30pm

General admission and silent auction begins with international items available

6:00pm

FREDBIRD® from the St. Louis Cardinals arrives for meet & greet with families

6:30pm

CICOFF performs - Performing Artist / Illustrator

7:00pm

The Travis Lee band performs

7:30pm

Nicky Losse (Vietnam Director) & Dwyatt Gantt (CHI Founder) welcome families and give brief presentation

7:45pm

The Eric Prewitt band performs

8:15pm

Winners of silent auction announced

 

 

St. Louis Attractions

Grant’s farm is a wonderful free family fun location. (You would pay $35-a-head in Florida) http://www.grantsfarm.com/

The Butterfly House and Carousel are close to the picnic location. http://www.butterflyhouse.org/

World Ways interactive international museum is near the picnic location http://www.worldways.org

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is just across the Mississippi in Illinois Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center

Cahokia Mounds: Fascinating State Museum on the site of an ancient Mississippian Indian city with huge ceremonial (sacrifice) mounds.

If you like trains (the big ones), you will love this large collection of R&R history Transportation Museum

Those who know, say the Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the best. http://www.mobot.org/welcome.html
 

 

 Names and Locations of nearby hotels

For more information on Children's Hope Reunion Picnic:
Michelle Howdeshell Michelle.Howdeshell@ChildrensHope.net
314-890-0086 


 

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