A/U Ranches, Adults & Family Camp

Video: Creative Collaboration

A cherished 100 Elk Outdoor Center and A/U Ranches client, Rainbow Valley Resource Network, placed job coaches with three adults with special needs who worked at the A/U Ranches in the kitchen last summer. Here’s the story of how this partnership blessed everyone involved. (From Trailmarks 2021)

About 100 Elk

The 100 Elk Outdoor Center provides outdoor education and character development programs in the fall and spring for schools and groups interested in experiential education. Its mission, “Revealing the Possibilities Within,” is at the core of its programming and is designed to help participants, individually and collectively, learn new things about themselves and others.

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Truth Johnston

Awakening to the Highest Sense of Love at Family Camp

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I realized the highest and most helpful form of love was to see others as complete, perfect children of God, instead of lacking mortals needing my sympathy.

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Andrew, staff member

When I Grew the Most in Christian Science

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I loved being with the kids and giving them a space to be themselves. Walking into the cabin at the end of the program day and hearing all of their

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Davia

A Healing Peak Climb during Family Camp

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I knew just being here with the support of the practitioner and in a loving environment that there was no way that I couldn't get through any challenge.

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Mountain Reunioners

Video: Mountaineering Reunion Memories

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Wendy Jones, Melvin Andrews, Christopher Webb and National Alumni Board member (and Mountaineering Reunion committee chair) Holly Valentine remember what the A/U Ranches meant to them as youth campers and…

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