Jen Lilley Prepares Another Year of ‘Camp Christmas’: ‘We’re So Grateful For This Beautiful Community!’
By Movieguide® Staff
Hallmark actress Jen Lilley recently celebrated the success of her “Christmas is Not Cancelled” initiative, which she launched last year.
According to a recent Instagram post from Lilley, over 2,000 backpacks were bought and filled with school supplies to give to children in the foster care system.
“Here are some of the friendly faces of those who helped @christmasisnotcancelled put together over 2020 backpacks filled with school supplies for children in foster care,” she wrote on Instagram. “We’re so grateful for this beautiful community!”
Lilley also announced the project “Camp Christmas,” a campaign that seeks to provide school supplies to foster children heading into a new year of school in September.
“Camp Christmas in July (featuring hilarious game nights and virtual get togethers with your favorite celebrities) registration opens June 15,” her post continued.
Lilley is candid about how her faith in Christ encourages her desire to help children in the foster care system. Lilley and her husband, Jason Wayne, have also adopted three children into their family: Kayden, 5, and Jeffrey, 3, and daughter Julie, 2.
“Kids who are at risk, homeless, or in foster care, so many of them say school is their safe place,” Lilley told the Hallmark Channel. “So many of them don’t graduate high school, so it’s really important to set them up for success.”
Movieguide® previously reported:
Movieguide® Awards Host Jen Lilley shared about her experience with adoption in the Arizona Health & Living July 2020 cover issue.
“It’s a long road and that’s one of the things that makes it so emotional is you never know,” Lilley said.
For Lilley, her parenting is more important than her acting career and worth every challenge that comes her way.
“I think that if you want to take care of children in a really dedicated manner, especially children who are in foster care who really need a lot of love and attention, and they need a lot of consistency, then I would not have been able to successfully do the show at the same time… Something had to give,” Lilley told Forbes.
Lilley added, “either I was going to do a good job on the soap and maybe not give these children the love that they deserve or I was going to be a fantastic foster mom, and just flounder in my acting.”
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