Rodeo Bible Camp teaches important skills and changes lives
By Nathan and Amber Harden, A Carpenter for Christ Ministries
Jerome, ID – When you watch rodeo events in the grandstands, it really doesn’t look that hard. You just have to ride that horse really fast around the barrels or stay on that bucking bull for just a mere eight seconds. You might sense you have to have some skill to throw a rope at a running calf but for the most part, it just doesn’t look like a ton of skill.
Yet when you watch the clinics at Rodeo Bible Camp, you learn that there is so much skill needed to really flourish at the sport. If you have an event that requires you to have a horse, you must learn to handle your horse. You might have to teach it to back into the corner or approach a goat or when to start turning him around that pole or barrel. It needs to know what to expect when you get that rope on a calf. If you are riding rough stock, you need to know how to come out of the chute, how to spur it, and how to get off as safe as possible if possible. All of these skills are taught to the kids at Rodeo Bible Camp by people who have had plenty of experience.
As important as these skills are, they also get to spend a couple hours of each day hearing about Jesus and all that He has done for them. Four of the kids asked to be baptized at the camp. Many testified that that they desire to spend more time with the Lord. It was a sweet camp!
Rodeo Bible Camp is one of the key outreach events that takes place in churches across Idaho and Utah that is fueled by your State Missions Offering and gifts you give to the Cooperative Program.
