About Us
What We Do
Here at Eagle's Nest Youth Ranch, our greatest desire is to assist broken people and broken horses to find healing together within God's loving embrace.
Specifically, in our session program we minister one-on-one-on-one (one leader, one participant, one horse). We pray for and over each person and each horse. We teach the individual lessons about horsemanship, and the love and trust that develop in that relationship, which overlap into lessons about the loving God we serve. Children who have never learned to trust can suddenly open up emotionally to a 1000-pound counselor with big brown eyes. A man or woman whose life is full of pain, stress, and uncertainty can find a place of joy and freedom where they can begin to hope again.
We do not intend to be defined as a therapeutic riding facility, although we sometimes use therapeutic methods. We work with each person as an individual, seeking to address their issues using whatever means will do the most good, always with our hearts open to receive the leading of the Holy Spirit. We trust the Lord to work through us and through the animals to touch the hearts of those that He sends to us.
Our Faith
Eagle's Nest Youth Ranch is a faith-based organization. Though the Ranch is not associated with any particular denomination, the basis of our belief rises from the same Judeo-Christian values that our nation was built upon. The Founders and Board of Directors believe in a Sovereign God and the saving grace of His Son, Jesus Christ. It is our greatest desire to serve God by the demonstration of our faith through action. Faith on the Ranch is demonstrated through "living example" to those we work with. It is our highest honor to serve children and families of all backgrounds with the same loving grace that has so freely been given to us.
Our Mission
To rescue abused and neglected equines, and to minister to the hearts and minds of wounded and at-risk people of all ages. Through interaction between horses and children, overseen and directed by our loving God, we endeavor to bring healing, acceptance, restoration, hope, and love to those who have been abused, rejected, abandoned, or neglected, to those who have felt unloved or unlovable, and to all who have lost hope.