GIVING
Step Forward and Change Lives. Donate today!
Your gift helps amputees overcome adversity and find hope.
GIVING
Step Forward and Change Lives. Donate Today!
Your gift helps amputees overcome adversity and find hope.
The Beautifully Flawed Foundation produces events that inspire, shares stories of hope, and provides hope to traumatic amputees.
Our mission is to encourage a broken world and offer hope to overcome through Jesus Christ. We believe there is a longing within every individual to overcome the trials, pains and difficulties of life.
With a vision to establish individuals to be overcomers in Christ, the family and friends of Bethany Hamilton, a world-class professional surfer who lost her arm to a shark bite at the age of 13, formed the Beautifully Flawed Foundation a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
We believe that in every individual there are three core pillars in accomplishing this.
Our mission is to encourage a broken world and offer hope to overcome through Jesus Christ. We believe there is a longing within every individual to overcome the trials, pains and difficulties of life.
Our three program pillars




Retreats
Events designed for female and male amputees to focus on faith, friendships, fitness, and holistic living.

Events
Powerful conferences created to inspire, encourage, and uplift women, men, boys and girls across the globe. Learn more about these inspirational events.

Packages
A first response outreach to individuals impacted by a traumatic amputation or shark incident to restore hope and bring encouragement in a time of extreme loss.

Our Impact
Stories of Hope

Band of Brothers
There comes a time in all of our lives when life doesn’t go as we’d thought. When tragedy hits, adversity strikes, and we find ourselves

2025 Forge Retreat Heads to Waco, Texas This Summer
We are stoked to officially announce that, for the first time ever, our 2025 Forge Men’s Retreat is headed to Waco, Texas! In partnership with

2025 Beautifully Flawed Retreat Applications Now Open!
We are excited to announce that our applications for the October Beautifully Flawed Women’s Retreat (BFR) for young women living with limb loss are now
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The Beautifully Flawed retreat completely changed my life for the better back in 2019. When I say that, I mean this was the event that completely changed my perspective on life, I started really working towards a healthier lifestyle that was more Christ-centered.

Laura Light
Beautifully Flawed Retreat Attendee
Made possible
by people like you!
Retreat Scholarships
FOOD & LODGING
Wellness Experiences
A little goes a long way
$20 per month will enable six retreat attendees to join a team building class. Help us make this possible.