RPM ranch leadership & character-growth camp
Does your boy need to get away from computer games and negative influences...to a place where he will learn to become a responsible and caring young man? He should attend the ten-week Character-Growth Camp by RPM Ranch, where he'll enjoy fresh air, fun outings, and some cool vocational options all while being mentored and taught honesty, integrity, responsibility, and care.
What other professionals say about RPM...
"Hear counsel and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise... "
Proverbs 19:20
Ron McDaniel
... Riley Olson and Ride Prosperously Ministries (RPM Ranch) have the character and experience to provide just what young men need... Using the horse as a partner to help instill important character traits in young men is a unique skill this program offers. Its amazing to see what Riley and his team can accomplish ...
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Ken McNabb
... Riley Olson to be one of those rare individuals who we can refer to as a man of highest character... faith in Jesus Christ and a firm belief in God above all other things... because of this, God has been able to use them in incredible ways to do incredible things. Riley is a very talented man, and a willing teacher. He openly shares God's love with the students he works with and I am blessed to call him one of my friends...
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D. Craig Barnett, DVM
... Riley and Kyla Olson are two of the kindest and most caring individuals I have ever met. Riley has been blessed with gifts of being an exceptional horseman, a great teacher and communicator, and most of all a man of very strong faith.... I’ve watched in amazement at how he teaches young men to connect with horses and then through the horse, scripture, and faith provides an opportunity for those young men to connect with God and redirect their lives...
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Curt Pate
...I knew it was special. God, horses and boys that need some guidance is a program that I can believe is good... Riley and the people he surrounds himself with are true believers and live in the biblical teachings of the Christian faith. They not only teach it but live it...I can not imagine a better way to help anyone, young or old, troubled or not with a horse program that this team has put together. It’s never about them. It’s about God...
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RPM Ranch
Leadership & Character-Growth Camp
A summer camp that changes lives forever
This 10-week camp offers a high degree of intense horsemanship and exposure to a handful of
different vocations along with financial and leadership experience.
RPM Ranch Leadership & Character-Growth Camp is an outreach of Ride Prosperously Ministries.
Ride Prosperously
Ministries is a non-profit organization and relies on donations and tuition to facilitate its day-to-day operations. The purpose of the ministry is to utilize the influence of animals,
especially horses, to help young men find direction, identity, and hope in life.
Meet the camp workers
riley olson
...that
the only thing that I liked more than working with horses was using horses to
work with people... It
is our desire to utilize the God-given influence of the horse to teach true
prosperity and contentment in life...
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justin rarrick
...I have a burden to for the youth of America. More youth are falling in to drugs, alcoholism, and their moral compass is broken. I want to help change that...
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Scott gore
...Raised in a family with a strong faith in Christ, he has always been confident in his path in life... Through patience and faith ... Scott found that working with and teaching young boys, has been the missing piece ...
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Schedule of events
The camp schedule is full of a wide range of activites centered around serving our Lord. While also being great fun, these activities will provide valuable vocational skills and life lessons buildling the foundation critical to helping them become leaders of family and community by learning things such as...
- Introduction to vocations
- Horse Safety
- Introduction to colt starting
- First saddling and rides
- Life lessons
RPM Ranch Leadership & Character-Growth Camp
Opportunities and Offerings
Life lessons through hands-on Horsemanship
o The opportunity to train two different horses
Exposure to Valuable Vocational Experience
o Welding
o Woodworking
o Leathercraft
o Farrier Work
Instructions from some of the top Horse Clinicians in the Country
o Curt Pate
o Buster McLaury
o Ken McNabb
o Ricky Quinn
o And More!
Financial Workshops
o Checking accounts
o Savings accounts
o Keeping a Register
o Learning to pay bills
o Behavioral Accountability
Spiritual Growth and Maturity
o Church Family experience
o Daily Devotions
o Life Lessons
o Christian Mentoring
Feeling of Accomplishment
o Training an unbroke horse
o Showing and Selling Trained Horse
o Learning a new trade
o Making hand-made useful items
Fun and Exciting Excursions
o Stockton Lake
o Silver Dollar City
o Branson, MO – Sight and Sound, Dinner show
o Trail Rides
o Rodeos
o Cardinals Baseball Game
o More
Real Cowboy Bunkhouse Experience
o Bunks and Bedrolls
o The Best Cowboy chuck around!
Watch our video from last year...
