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Monday, 10 August 2009 10:08 |
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 Our camps were great this summer also. The first week we held a team- and teepee building camp. Jim Swanner, a natural horsemanship trainer was our guest. Two of his students, Garnett and Lori accompanied him. It has been an amazing experience to see how Jim was working with our horses! There were always some enthralled young people around the round pen who were watching and learning the basics of the “horse language”. We set up the teepees with hard work but there was also time for riding and discussions. By the end of the week we became a real team. We celebrated the fourth of July together to honor our American guests. The campers arrived for the next week. Totally there were almost fifty of us at the ranch. Unfortunately the second night a big storm proved that out teepees are not waterproof, at 11pm we had to rescue 24 soaking children along with their bags and beddings. Hats off for the staff members and campers who showed that they really could work together. Eszti and Gabi lead the Riding Lessons but the other staff members were also there to help them. Professor Walter Hecker also visited us and gave us an exciting lecture on horses, his faith, and life. Miki lead the group into the secrets of archery with the help of Peti. My wife, Gabi was a real “mother” of the camp and besides the delicious meals she had an eye for all the children, sometimes for the adults as well. Balint and Bogi took care of all the problems of the campers, and lead the groups they have been responsible for. The Bible studies, the discussions were great and as Gergo was leading worship with his guitar, many of us got closer to God. As we always do, in the end of the exciting week we invited the parents for family day and a mini rodeo. The goulash soup that was prepared for more than a hundred people was delicious! After the horse and archery show, the group presented their new line dance knowledge. We closed our camp with thanksgiving to God and filled up with experiences. (We would like to have some real waterproof teepees made for next year…)
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Saturday, 08 August 2009 19:06 |
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 The younger brothers and sisters of our campers have been so excited about the ranch that we decided to organize this year our first "Mini Cowboy Camp". The campers were between the age of 4-9 years old. We had the privilege to spend this mini camp together with 12 campers, and some of their family members. We invited some of our best formal teenager campers to help out with the camp. All together 29 people were at the ranch. The first day went great! We had a lot of fun playing games, getting to know each other and the horses. We have spent some time to study God's word what Jesus taught about the Kingdom of God. We had a wonderful trail ride in the afternoon.  We fixed our dinner for ourselves on the open fire. Like cowboys, we had a great evening around the camp fire with singing songs, telling and listening to stories. During the night a thunder storm has hit the camp, which was a new experience for our campers in the teepees. Thanks for God the kids could sleep through the night, only one of the teepees had to be evacuated. Next morning we enjoyed the delicious breakfast together. Filled up with a lot of new exciting memories we closed our camp by giving thanks to God.
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Missionary Wrangler is needed |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 14:54 |
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The person would be responsible 5 days a week to oversee the horses and the ranch.
Current horses: 2 mares, 2 geldings, 2 ponies, and 2 foals.
The house will be fully furnished, including kitchen, laundry facilities, LR, 2 bedrooms and small living room. A library of resource books is also available. The neighboring building hosts a small office, 3-bed bunkroom, and woodshop. The 20-acre ranch is in a beautiful rural setting. There is internet cafe, train, bus transportation, and a grocery store available in Lajosmizse (15,000 inhabitants), about 10-15 minutes by car. The ranch is about an hour from downtown Budapest (the capital city of Hungary 2 million inhabitants) and about 20 minutes from Kecskemét, a city of 80,000 inhabitants featuring malls and various conveniences.
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