Sports + Recreation

Helping Your Camper Work Through Homesickness

Homesickness is a common experience, especially for first-time overnight campers. Being away from home, family routines, and familiar comforts can feel overwhelming in those first few days. As parents, it’s hard not to worry. We get it. That’s why we’re here—to walk with you, equip you, and cheer you on as you help your camper grow through this experience. With decades of experience, our team knows how to walk alongside campers through these moments and help them find their footing. How We...

Sports + Recreation

Family Style: Lessons from the Dining Hall

Around here, we love the dinner table. Not just because it’s where the food is (though that’s a perk!), but because it’s where real connection happens.If you’ve ever stepped foot in one of our dining halls at camp, you’ve seen it. Every meal, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, is spent shoulder to shoulder. No screens. No distractions. Just the sound of laughter, stomping feet on benches, and campers swapping stories about the zipline, cabin devotionals, or who's going to "win" the Alpha/Omega...

Health + Wellness

The Sound of Life

Hear in Texas helps people reconnect with the voices, sounds, and moments that matter Article by Kelly Shearing | Photography by Hear in Texas & Savage Soul Media For the team at Hear in Texas, better hearing is about much more than hearing better. It’s about the moments that happen around us every day: a spouse’s voice, birds in the backyard, laughter across the dinner table, or even the sound of the wind. Those are the moments Dr. Sally, Carlos (COO), Christy (Business Development Diva)...

Life + Culture

I Still Stand

Article by Denise Zimmerman | Photography by Denise Zimmerman & Krista Fuchs People seem to enjoy guessing my age. Fifty years. Two hundred. Five hundred. The truth is, I have lost count. People count years. I count what endured. The knots along my trunk are evidence of seasons that asked more of me than others. Long before these grasses were trimmed into beauty, I learned to hold through rain, flood, drought, and wind. Somewhere along the way I was passed over on an architect's drawing of what...