Monday, August 3, 2015

Brightwood Ranch Visit

After about 3 weeks of Faith being at Brightwood Ranch Brian and I decided to make our way over there for a visit and little tour.  We were blown away by the look of the camp 
and the work that is being done there.  

Here is a picture of the girls' cabins.  All of the cabins have their own bathroom with showers.  
We were impressed by that.  So much easier to keep all the little munchkins clean and a lot less wakeups for counsellors to take a child to the bathrooms too, I'm sure.


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This is the cabin that some of the women staff stay in - including Faith.


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This is the boys cabin along with the Guys Staff cabin.  Such a cool set up.


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Faith took us on a small tour of one of the out camps - the Tee Pee Village.  The kids that come for Tee Pee Village stay there, eat there 
and have their own camp out there while the main camp has their camp.
Faith has to make the rounds each day to all of the outpost camps for medications.






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Brighwood Ranch is on a beautiful piece of property.


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Touring the horse barn.  A whole separate horse camp is running concurrently with the other camps all summer, with a wrangler training program and more.


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A petting zoo as well which gives the kids from the city a taste of farm life.


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Some of the kitchen Staff loving on Nurse Baymax (Faith)


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Faith with the other nurse on site for the summer - Martine (Sugar)
Martine is an incredible friend and mentor for Faith.  She is a 3rd year nursing student and has a heart the size of Texas.  Such a beautiful young woman.


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Sharing some stories and heart tugs.


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Emotional support as it was time to say goodbye to the campers.


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A really meaningful tradition.  When the buses leave to take the campers back to the city all of the staff and counselors run alongside the bus waving and yelling goodbyes as far as they can run until they run out of steam!  Tears streaming down so many faces - even ours as we sat to the side and watched.




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Immediately following the hard goodbyes the workers all meet 
for a couple of hours of prayer and support.



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Looks like a real good emotional release for some of the counselors in their free time following the supper and camp clean up between camps.


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The van comes to pick up all the luggage to take back to the city and meet back up with the campers.


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Yes, we are so proud of our daughter and her summer investment.  All of the staff here have a commitment to God to bring love to these children.