Circle C Ranch Alumni News Update
Volume #2

HOWDY!!!
Hey all you former Circle C Ranchers! This is our second newsletter and we have some great stuff we want to share with you. First of all we want to let you know how the summer went, and then tell you about some amazing things God did here this fall. We also want to share with you a couple of stories from former staff members to help you catch up with some of the people who you may have worked with and have lost touch with!!

Summer 2002
We had such a good summer, our attendance in campers was up about 5%. Our staff was great, a very unified group of students who did a fantastic job. Our theme was “Seek and Save” based on Luke 19:10. We did some things differently this year to accomplish our goals a little better. For one thing, we got rid of morning chapels and replaced them with small group time. Now the counselors had a period every day to make sure they covered the marking your bibles for soul-winning material and how to spend quality time with God. It was so cool seeing kids in Miss Kate’s practicing leading each other to Christ! Along with that we had over 215 first time decisions for Christ this summer and over 175 kids who came forward for assurance! That doesn’t include the rededications that happened every week!
From the kids: “Hey guyz! i wanted to thank everyone at circle c! you guyz changed my life forever.. i have come so much closer to god and my friends except it! My life is going great! At camp you have all friends, no one cares what you look like what shape or size you are or anything.. Summer of 2002 was my 3rd year and it was my favorite!! THANK YOU EVERYONE SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! You saved my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i will have everlasting life! Thank you! and please keep praying for me.”
~Lindsay

Fall 2002
This fall we had two Road Show Rally Days here at camp. What we do is open all the camp facilities up from 2 until 6 PM on one Saturday in September and one in October. Then at 6:00 everyone goes up to the Chapel for a Road Show Rally, which includes music, games, improv comedy, drama, and a clear presentation of the Gospel. Between the two days we had over 700 students here and over 100 came forward to give their lives to Christ! The really exciting part of this is that almost all of the 100+ students who came forward were invited by friends who had come to camp and were brought by youth groups. So these students will be plugged into a youth group and be discipled! It is amazing to watch a para-church organization like we are, partner so effectively with the local church! In the end the harvest belongs to God!!
From the Leaders: “Oh man we are so excited!!!! We have approximately right now as of today about 38 teens coming down with us this Saturday for the rally. What is even neater is alot of lost kids are coming with a major major need for Christ, well all teens need Christ but you know what I mean. Alot of city kids. We have these two boys that are coming.... Teachers have tried to help him. I just spoke with his grandma tonight and she said he needs help so I explained to her what Circle C is about and she said well I don’t know if spiritual help can help but we will try it COOL COOL!!! She said as long as they behave they can come so I am praying and if you would too that nothing gets in the way from them coming. They came to youth group last Wednesday night. Probably their first time hearing the gospel it sound like. Also, sorry for all the rambling, I am just so psyched!!! Also a little girl named Christina is coming she is 13 and she has never in her 13 years entered a church or knows anything about Jesus or anything. She is coming also!!! Plus many more. “
-Theresa

Coming up
As this newsletter goes out we are preparing for our snow camp season and we would truly covet your prayers. We are scheduled to run 6 weekends of pure madness!! Last year we packed it out with over 1200 teens and leaders. Over 125 students surrendered their lives to Christ and over 330 stepped out to surrender an area of their lives to God! We are praying that God will do even more this winter! Here is just one of a ton of e-mail responses we got after snowcamp:

"Circle C has helped me so much! I can't believe 2 and a half days changed me. It just shows how much God can work through all of us. I also know God wanted me to go to Circle C this week, and believe me, next year I'll be back waiting to see what else He has planned for me there. Next year I think I'll invite some of my non-christian friends. I've also realized through camp that I really need to work to save them. So I'm praying hard. Thank you all so much for everything you do. You all, with God's help, could have very easily saved me from spiraling downhill into who knows where!"

We are also praying that God will provide the funds so that we can do more to reach this generation of students. We have plans and desires to see this ministry expand, but in order for that to happen we need the finances to do it. We know God is in control of it all, but I am also thinking that God may use some of you and the people you know who believe that reaching students for Christ is worth investing in.

If you know of any other alumni that hasn’t received a newsletter, please let us know. That means we have lost touch with them and would love to get them back connected with camp. And if you would like to get in touch with someone you worked with let us know that to, if we can we will get you connected. You can contact us by the US Postal service:

Circle C Ranch
10451 Ashcraft Rd.
Delevan, NY 14042

by e-mail:
info@circlecranch.org

or by phone:
(716) 492-3687

Thank you for your prayers, your support, and all you have
done to make Circle C Ranch what it is today!