Christmas at the Ranch!

We love Christmas around here! It’s so beautiful and festive with all the sparkly twinkling lights, garland and our many Christmas trees! The offices are full of Christmas music and it's so nice to come inside after exploring our winter wonderland. We are truly blessed here and it's so evident at Christmas!

Especially when it comes to our annual Appreciation Dinner. This week we look forward to hosting some of our donors, sponsors and volunteers from this past year. We will enjoy Christmas dinner and hear about what God has been doing in and around the Ranch in 2010. We will also let them in to some little secrets, plans for 2011. So exciting!

Christmas break week we host two separate day camp weeks. Here the campers will do crafts, play games, ice skate and pony ride. We have a number of fun Christmas crafts ready for campers, parents.... get ready to be amazed! This season we will also be having a number of groups come in to celebrate the holidays with friends and family. We enjoy being able to meet all these new faces and have fun with old friends. 

Keep in touch or stop by to say hi any time during the holidays; we would love to see you!

Overnight Camps

Came across an article from City Parent's website today about the advantages of overnight camp.
It talks about how overnight camps "build independence and social skills."

Here at Teen Ranch our campers develop mentally, physically, socially and spiritually to become independent kids. They have time to bond with friends and mentors both in and outside their cabins. Games during evening hours strengthen their experience with team work and connection with peers. Their bunk house leaders will give them tips about growing up and teach them valuable Biblical lessons.

Check out the article on cityparent.com for more information about choosing a camp. http://www.cityparent.com/article/15997

We hope to see your kids next summer!

Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

It was such a blast and a total blessing to be able to catch up with many of you at this year's Royal Winter Fair. Our booth, complete with Horse Life Adventures for Wii and a touch screen featuring our latest programs, was a hit!

We enjoyed visits from new friends and old friends alike and really loved the opportunity to meet so many different people who have come to visit us over the last 40 years.

It was also fun for many of our international staff, who have never visited the Royal, to experience Canada's finest in equestrian and farm life. They came back on property with stories of discovering new booths every day!

This week we will be having our draw for the Free Week of Camp and Trail Ride for TEN and winners will be notified shortly.

Thanks again for all of you that visited us this year at the Royal.
We hope to see you again next season!

An Interesting Read

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/church/features/23335-does-community-really-matter

Relevant Magazine article about the value of community.

Read it.

And have a wonderful day!

Warm up with Summer fun!

Teen Ranch Camp Experience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVs1DbXvLak

New videos on Teen Ranch youtube channel!

Hockey

Horses 

and CAMP!