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UPCOMING EVENTS

IT'S HAPPENING!! We are thrilled to be hosting an in person walk again this year and it's time to sign up your teams and start fundraising! This is traditionally our largest fundraiser of the year and having missed the last couple we need your help to make 2022 a great 1st year back!
Prizes will be given to the teams with the most people registered to walk and the biggest fundraisers!

This year the walk will be held at Cherry Hill Park (Rain location TBD). We will begin to gather at 10:30 and walk at 11:00AM. Activities will be after the walk this year along with a provided meal that is included in your registration fee. We hope this allows families to mingle and meet other families and enjoy the afternoon at the park at their leisure.

Location: The Chrome Horse Saloon
Time: 4:00PM
Tickets: $15

Food & Drinks will be available for purchase

Dan Kulp is a Comedian, Actor, Author, and Pastor. Three of his four children are adopted and have special needs (Down syndrome and Autism, Alfi’s syndrome, spina bifida). He also has four siblings with Down syndrome (three were adopted).

After the birth of his brother in 1971, Dan’s parents adopted three more children with Down syndrome becoming a family with nine kids! This gave him a unique perspective on the value of life. PBS and Newsweek Magazine did a feature on them which aired internationally, and The National Enquirer did a two-page spread about the Kulps! Now, Dan and his wife have carried on the legacy.

You will laugh as Dan describes his parenting foibles. You will be moved to tears as he tells how his wife’s experiences with the infamous “dying rooms” led to adoption. You will be inspired by their son Simon, who was abandoned in the woods on the day he was born and became whom the Kulps have been told is the first with Down syndrome adopted out of China to the U.S.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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