ATKH Childrens Ranch

June 2010 Issue

New!

Houseparent Q&As

From Invisible

by AJ Lucore

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The Childrens Ranch is now on Facebook! Check it out

Our Goals:

* To provide an environment of social, physical, educational and spiritual support for children in need

* To develop their abilities and interests, encourage reaching maximum potential as they mature

* To provide temporary respite for local children in a Christ-centered home at the ranch

* To ultimately build several permanent homes on the ranch in which disadvantaged children can live for extended periods of time with support buildings as needed, including a recreation center

Our Mission:

To provide a refuge, in a ranch setting, for abused and neglected children who need long-term care.

Our Method is Love

Ranch Photos

Winner Proclaimed!

The 2010 Cochise County Men's Amateur Golf Championship series is complete. Cash raised for the Ranch was over $14,000! Thanks for all the support of sponsors, volunteers, and of course the players!

Ranch Director Ana Lucore presents award to 2010 Champion James Wallace

Click here for event summary and more pictures of 2010 winners

More info: http://www.ccmagct.com

About the Ranch...Since moving onto this 90 acre property in October 2004, our focus has been on erecting a community of buildings to lovingly shelter children on-site. We continue to work toward developing the Ranch for this purpose. A biography of our Christ-inspired mission is now available, entitled From Invisible, by AJ Lucore. For a short summary of Ranch History, click here.

New House Parents have arrived at the Ranch!

The Ranch welcomes new houseparents, Billy and December Galloska. They have followed the Lord's leading and are now living at the Ranch. Billy has served as missionary to Malawi, Africa and is currently the pastor of the Skyline Baptist Church near Benson. He also attended Cochise Baptist Bible Institute to further his education for the Lord's work. Billy and his wife December, with their daughter Dedra are ready to take up their new mission as houseparents at the Ranch.

Click here to read more about Billy and December

Other Current Needs...Building out the Ranch and preparing for children to be housed here requires a lot of supplies and equipment. For those who would like to support this process, a list of current needs has been prepared. We will try to update the list monthly. Click here for an updated list for August 2010.

Summer Camp Memories

Camp was a Wow-Experience for sure! With your help, 28 campers ages 7 to 17 registered with The Children’s Ranch for five-days, four-nights at Broken Arrow campgrounds in Sunsites, Arizona. With other children from various locations, about ninety campers in all kept busy with organized games, bible studies, food, crafts, archery, hiking, scripture memorization, swimming and prayer. What a joy to watch children on their knees praying together; praying alone; some whispering to the Lord; others quietly weeping away their pain. The blessings of the week will last a long, long time!

We made many friends and worked and played hard!

Click here for lots more camp photos and memories

Volunteers:

Gene Shull from here in Benson, AZ has volunteered to be Project Coordinator for the Ranch.

He will help the other volunteers in deciding on projects, gathering materials, and organizing work crews.

When the corral is finished, they plan to work on the Ranch workshop and make renovations to the "Chuck Wagon" which will be the new Welcome Center for the Ranch.

My search is over. The direction is clear: America's youth need us. Their desperate cry is against a society that has turned it's back on them. Give me the children! Give me the young ones who will be the adults of our nation; the young ones who will be our leaders.

This is the call of Ana Lucore.