What a weekend!

What an exciting weekend!

Hey everyone, what an awesome weekend we just had! The Bethel Temple Church of Christ from Baltimore, Maryland came with about 36 people from their youth group for a weekend retreat. They got to experience all of our awesome activities, but mostly, they spent a lot of time with an awesome God. I was blessed by how this group really got into worship and seeking the Lord over the weekend. They spent a lot of time in the Word and that is really what our goal for these groups is. Praise God.

Also, Saturday, our camp was inundated with volunteers. The largest group among them was the Somerset Alliance Church’s Vision local outreach team. About 20 or more volunteers from their team paid for and constructed our first cabin at the Ranch. This was so exciting for us, and we are hoping to recruit more churches who will volunteer to take on this task for about 5 more cabins. The Somerset group also helped to stain our stable, which we are in the process of completing and need more volunteers to help us with. Thank you, Somerset Alliance Vision team.

Among others at the Ranch, I would also like to mention and thank Bob Glovier, my dad, who cut grass Saturday, Dave McKee, a friend of our Director, who helped out with the retreat in the kitchen, doing carpentry work, and even with our Vizion ministry team on Sunday, and John Buntz, who used to trim our campground area several years ago and stopped by Saturday to say hi and give the Somerset Alliance Vision team a hand. Thanks guys.

Sunday was exciting too, as our Vizion team performed their second performance of the year at Pastor Henry Frain’s church, The Carpenter’s Cross. Our teens did an excellent job and really sang and performed with all their hearts as they shared the message of Christ’s love. I had the privilege to give a gospel message and invitation for salvation at the end of the program, as well as an invitation for our audience to break free from sin, as Christ calls us to. One person in the audience responded by making a commitment to the Lord and was counseled by a member of the Vizion team. Thank you to Henry Frain and his church for allowing us to minister there, for feeding us, thanks to our Vizion team for their work in the Lord, and thanks to everyone who is praying for them.
Posted by Joel G

A GREAT WEEKEND

A GREAT WEEKEND
We had a wonderful weekend with a youth group from Baltimore Maryland at the Teen Quest Ranch. They had a wonderful time of worship and activities. God is using Teen Quest to reach many students for Christ each weekend.

MISSION PROJECT
We also had a group of young people from the Somerset Alliance Church come and build our first winterized cabin at the ranch. In just 9 hours the building was under roof. We will be able to house 8 students in the cabin when it is totally finished. We are so thankful for this wonderful mission project and thank the youth group for supplying the materials to build the cabin.

FALL ROUND UP
Next weekend we are holding our Fall Round Up with lots of activities, dinner on the grounds and a short concert by our teen music drama troupe Vizion. In addition to the round up we are having a mission group from Michigan come to finish a cement floor in our pole building. Our goal is to complete and winterize the pole building by Snow Camp.

"VIZION' IN CONCERT
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26 6pm our Vizion music drama troupe will be in concert at the Carpenders Cross Church in Webster. Come and hear our 29 member troupe minister the message of the cross to young and old alike.

Somerset Alliance youth to build our first cabin

On Saturday September 24th the youth group of Somerset Alliance Church is coming to the Teen Quest Ranch to build our first cabin. The cabin will hold between 8 and 10 campers and will be located near the lodge. It will be a rustic looking building (fully winterized) with a porch overlooking the lake.

This cabin will be the prototype for future rustic cabins on the ranch. We are challenging other churches to come and build like cabins on the property.

WE WANT TO WELCOME HIGHLAND AND GLENSHAW PRESBYTERIAN YOUTH GROUPS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17th. They are spending the day at the Ranch playing paintball, horseback riding, mt boarding, climbing walls, skateboarding, archery and much much more.

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE FALL ROUND-UP AND OPEN HOUSE AT THE TEEN QUEST RANCH SATURDAY OCTOBER 1 FROM 1- DARK. Bring the entire family... Our Vizion music drama troupe will make a presentation along with lots of activities and dinner on the grounds. Call for more details 814-444-9500

JOEL AND MEGAN MOVE TO BALTIMORE

On Friday the entire Teen Quest ministry staff held a going away gathering for Joel and Megan. Joel is taking a new position at the Baltimore zoo as one of the marketing directors starting this month.

Joel grew up with Teen Quest as the son of the exectutive directors. He has worked with his parents as a teenager and for the last three years on full time staff. Joel has led our camp rallies, was in charge of our marketing department, our publications and web site, bookkeeper and much more.

Joel will continually help Teen Quest with the web and publications from his home in Baltimore at the present time.

Joel and Megan will be greatly missed. You can still write Joel and Megan by e- mail Joel@teenquest.org

PREPARING TO REACH TEENS THIS FALL

We have been working hard in preparation for fall weekends ... cleaning carpets, cleaning and organizing the "Welcome Center", painting the climbing wall, organizing the kitchen and finishing the new addition on the stable.

THANK YOU. We want to thank the Ream family, Cliff Knepper and Mr Hosteter for haying the fields and helping us load 1000 bails of hay in the new stable addition. Our seven horses now have enough hay for the winter months. We are so blessed to have friends in the local area who will go the extra mile to help us. Please see Ranch Developments blog site.

We need your prayers as we continually minister to hundreds of students this fall.

Mark S Witt- executive director