Our Mission

We call it "growing children;" and our goal is to guide young people to have better lives through the pleasure of working and playing together. JRC's atmosphere encourages each individual's potential to be expressed and expanded in a setting that values professionalism, wholesomeness, integrity, playfulness, and the power of the natural environment to inspire children. Camp provides campers with role models that exemplify values of honesty, self-respect, and respect for others.

We believe strongly in self sufficiency. Our pace of life is connected with the sunshine of each day and we celebrate and create life's happenings. Growing our own food, tending the animals, playing and working together, all help to develop a caring community where each person is an important part of the whole. Campers know they are contributing to fresh bread for dinner when they gather wood for the outdoor oven. In today's high tech society, it is rare to sleep outside, gather eggs, and pitch hay to calves. Here at camp, this wholesome lifestyle continues from generation to generation.

Our purpose is to guide children to have better lives through the pleasure of working and playing together. We are in the business of people building, and camp encourages a child's potential to be expressed and expanded. We believe in professionalism, wholesomeness, integrity, having fun, learning by doing, and the power of the natural environment to inspire children.