First Christian Church will be sending a team of 22 people to the Shiloh Christian Children's Ranch in Kahoka, Missouri from Sunday, June 13 - Thursday, June 17, 2010. The team will be working on three different projects while they are there: plumbing a chicken coop, winterizing a goat shed, and removing and installing a row of mailboxes. While there, the team will be completely integrated into the mission going on at the ranch. They will be staying in the homes with the families, eating their meals with them, and participating in devotionals together. The team will also be working alongside the children on the various projects. What an awesome opportunity it will be for them to not only see up close the work being done at Shiloh, but also to participate in it firsthand!

The purpose of Shiloh Christian Children's Ranch is to provide Christian homes for abused/neglected and other children and to meet the spiritual, emotional, educational, social and physical needs of each child. They are a Christian organization, seeking to present Christ as Lord through their words and deeds. The staff and board of directors are Christian.

The ranch contains homes with full-time parents to provide a healthy, family environment. They are 100% privately funded, mainly through churches and individuals, receiving no state or federal money for this ministry. They provide ministry to children placed at Shiloh without any fee charged to the children's families. Being in a rural location, they provide a variety of opportunities for work and play, which they believe both activities to be therapeutic to the children. For more information about this ministry, you can visit their website at www.shilohranch.org.