Good Eating Makes For a Better Meeting
Every day, you will enjoy great meals created by the wonderful Chef Bob, while sitting with the rest of the Challenge students in the gorgeous, open-air dining pavilion. With a wide range of options throughout the week, you’ll chow down on biscuits, sausage, and grits at the rodeo, a barbecue picnic on the lake lawn, and everything from pita sandwiches to chicken fingers the rest of the week.
During your adventures off property, you’ll be eating food prepared on a campfire, a pizza party in the redwood forest, and trail mix on your hikes. Oh, and don’t forget the snack bar full of milkshakes, pretzels and hot nachos. You won’t go hungry and you might not want to leave.
Adventure Based
The first morning when you wake up it’ll be off to the rodeo and the beginning of a week filled with fun, laughter, and adventure. You’ll be invited to jump in and participate in a variety of activities from three-legged races to a lake zip-line to jumping off of a 50-foot telephone pole. And that’s just day one!
The rest of the week you and your team will challenge yourselves on the ropes courses, perfect your team skit, and compete in the Lake and Pool Olympics. In between, you’ll take a day hike up a nearby mountain and explore a local waterfall and natural swimming hole. Having conquered the first week on property, the fun will kick in to high gear. You and your team will head off for the trifecta of Jet-boating on the Rogue River, surfing in the Pacific Ocean, and camping in the Redwood Forest before returning home for the final day at the Ranch.
Content Driven
JH Ranch is not your typical summer camp. You won’t be doing arts and crafts and signing up for other camp activities. Instead, you’ll be on a team, conquering the challenges put in front of you while learning about what it takes to truly succeed in life. As you finish the ropes courses and enjoy the adventures, you’ll be experiencing a program that intentionally teaches biblical life principles about life, leadership and relationships through every challenging adventure. And at night, you’ll also head down to the big circus tent we call the Big Top each night for some laughter and a thought-provoking Big Top Talk, including topics such as:
- Your Life Purpose
- The Love of God
- The Abiding Journey
- The Parent Talk
- How To Rate A Date and Choose A Mate (“Dating”)
- Highlights and Wrap-Up
Undistracted Beauty
JH Ranch is perfectly located for the adventure you are looking for. Spread over nearly 1000 remote acres, the Ranch is found fourteen miles outside of the town of Etna, CA, population 560. The Ranch is in the mountains and most summers, you’ll be able to look up and see snow still covering the peaks.
Every day will be spent largely outside enjoying the sun, shade, and fresh mountain air, and when you go off property you’ll be standing in awe looking up at the giant redwoods, playing soccer on the beach of the Pacific Ocean, or cutting across the beautiful Rogue River in a jet-boat. All in all, you’ll find that the Ranch is one of those idyllic places where it’s easy to forget what homework even is.