How is Phantom Ranch doing? A common question, and it’s a good one. Our answers are: financially we are doing well, we had a great summer camp, our retreat season is booked up, the staff are working well as a team and on mission, and so on. The best answer is: Everyone loves Phantom Ranch! read more...
Naomi Faber has joined our team as an apprentice for the year! This means she will work within many of our departments, doing whatever needs to be done. Along the way she will learn valuable life and ministry skills, and see Phantom Ranch from the inside out. Naomi is being mentored and discipled during her read more...
Kids Received Scholarships! Our scholarship donors provided $34,000 in camp scholarships to 74 different campers. Most families received a partial gift, other families receive the full amount. The average is 400 per camper ($600 is the typical camp fee). The other 45 camper scholarships were provided by Angel Tree, Tinaglia Fund, Corners of the Field, read more...
We are blessed by our donors who provide funds so we can purchase new, top of the line equipment. The photo shows our new Gravely lawn mower! It is fast AND comfortable! It’s first task was to cut the upper ball field, it took a little under two hours. 30 years ago, that task would read more...
Top 10 Reasons to Go to Summer Camp If you’ve been to camp, you’re not surprised to hear about the benefits of summer camp. Experiencing life at camp yourself as a child, you know the profound positive effects that still matter to you as an adult, and you also know that you want something just read more...
Spring Clean Success Spring is creeped in early this year and we are got a jump on our Spring cleaning. We recruited individuals and groups to join us in March to make our camp a place guests say “WOW!” when they arrive. We deep cleaned cabins and the Dining Hall floors, ceilings, windows, walls, light read more...
“Top 3” Leaf Removal Day “WOW, what a day! We raked a billion leaves in just one day!” -an energetic middle schooler reflecting on a job well done. Mike Doud, our Maintenance Director, said, “In the last 20 years, this was ‘Top 3’ for a leaf removal day.” We had staff families, horse lesson students, read more...
Year Round Staff is Growing In early September, all of our full time staff had a day-long meeting to talk about the successes of the summer and to report on how we can be even better next summer. We took time to explore camp’s strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities. This annual meeting is always a read more...
Summer Staff 2023 Your prayers for our summer staff are working, we are getting more and more applications for summer staff. We are not there yet, but we know God will provide the people we need. Along the way, we get to experience some cool stories of young people stepping out in faith to serve read more...
Elias Chohan has joined our team as an apprentice for the year. This means that he will work in all our areas and do what ever needs to be done. Along the way he will learn valuable skills and see camp ministry from the inside out. We are committed to teaching Elias many of the read more...