Marlie: Focused on what matters most
Pretty blue eyes, framed by strands of long blonde hair, sparkle and dance as Marlie, 9, is working on a jigsaw puzzle on a table at Veigel Home. This little ball of sweet energy keeps at ...
A safe place for honest questions
As a Christ-centered organization, the children we serve at Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch are given daily opportunities to grow spiritually. Some come here delighted to continue and strengthen their faith. Others may just be meeting God ...
Girls retreat helps Boys Ranch teens find identity in Christ
Why am I here? Do I belong here? What will happen to me? Am I going to be okay? Who am I? The children we serve at Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch often come to us initially ...
Prayer ride offers peace, belonging
The teenage girl contemplated deeply before she took a felt-tip pen and printed some words on the oblong stone. In her quick handwriting, she wrote, ‘help my family be better.’ With that, she gently placed it ...
Christmas Cantata offers message of hope in 2019
Inside the warmth of the perfectly lit chapel at Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch about 40 youth and their adult mentors treated more than 400 guests to a moving Christmas cantata. “Hope: His Name is Jesus,” powerfully ...
‘Hope is Born’ at Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch
The familiar story of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, as detailed in Luke Chapter 2 and the book of Matthew, takes on special meaning each year for the boys and girls who plan, script and choreograph the ...