The Cono Reunion has been rescheduled for the Summer of 2022

 Due primarily to lack of registrations, the Cono Reunion has been rescheduled until the summer of 2022, probably in later June or early July. We hope for renewed attendance then – in a year when we're not coming off Covid, and perhaps when people are more free to travel for a reunion. If you know of someone who should see this email, please feel free to forward it to them. Thanks for your interest and support, and we apologize for any inconvenience! Write us at friendsofcono@gmail.org.

Camps are in full swing this summer.

You can always give to support

young people at Cono.

This is our first summer having eight full time counselors at Cono for all eleven weeks. School will be opening for a second straight year in the fall.

Donate online HERE to keep Cono serving young people.

Designate for Ridge Haven Cono.

 

Mailing address for checks written out to:

RH Cono, 215 Ridge Haven Road, Brevard, NC 28712

Share this email with others and encourage them to register and come.

Our Contact Information
Ridge Haven Cono (www.ridgehaven.org)
215 Ridge Haven Road
Brevard, NC 28712
828-702-9510

Cono Reunion July 9-10 Registration Set ; Jim Ward coming!

 REGISTER HERE

for the July 9-10, 2021 - Cono Reunion

Go directly to the "Register" button on this page.

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Please be patient as you work through the 8-10 pages

of registering for the reunion. You are now a "New User" so

create a new account and walk through the steps.

For full instructions on how to do this go to our special

INSTRUCTION PAGE.

Jim Ward will join us!

Jim Ward's music has been a long-flowing part of Cono's life. From "Let Them Paise!" to "Consider the Lilies" to "Rock of Ages," his music and verve have driven Cono choirs and worship singing. Jim and Beth will join us for the 2021 Cono Reunion and will lead both group singing and also accompany the choir.

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Please save the dates July 9-10, 2021. We will be watching Covid and will monitor safety with precaution. But if the coast is clear, please plan to join us for another great get-together. More details will follow. You can correspond at friendsofcono@gmail.com and ask questions.

Enjoy these photos from the last reunion in 2019

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Donate online HERE to keep Cono serving young people.

Designate for Ridge Haven Cono.

Mailing address for checks written out to:

RH Cono, 215 Ridge Haven Road, Brevard, NC 28712

Cono Reunion 2021 - Rates & Registration Guide

Cono Reunion 2021 

828.862.3916 | 215 RIDGE HAVEN RD, BREVARD, NC 28712 | 3269 QUASQUETON AVE WALKER, IA 52352 | RIDGEHAVEN.ORG 

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**PLEASE NOTE: REMEMBER to REGISTER at ridgehaven.org and go to the "REGISTER NOW" button. The following is only a guide to help you through that site!!!

 

Dates: July 9-11, 2021 

Rates & Registration Guide 

The cost for the Cono Reunion depends on the number and age of those in your family for Registration cost, lodging choice, and meal choice. The following will guide you through the registration process. Please follow this LINK to the online registration. Log in to your current account, or if you have not registered with us before, click create an account. 

1. Registration - List EACH Attendee 

You will Register each family member for one of the options below. There is no partial day choice. Each member of your family will be listed as one of the following: Adult (12+), Child (2-11). The category will be based on your child’s age on the first day of camp. Important Note: Put “0” for any unused category. The cost of Registration will depend on the registrants age as follows. 

2. Select Lodging 

Lodging is limited. Your choice will be honored on a first come first serve basis. You will select a lodging option from the options below based on the number of family members. 

Family Cabins and RV Sites will use the Men & Women’s Gym locker rooms for bathrooms & showers. The Bunkhouse Rooms share common bathrooms within the Bunkhouse. 

Note: Linens are provided for the Family Cabins & Bunkhouses. 

3. Meals 

During the registration process, you will enter the count for each person by age range. Meal cost includes all meals and snacks per day, including coffee, tea, and lemonade throughout the day. On Sunday, breakfast is the only meal served. Note: you do not have the option to pick and choose meals. 

Encourage Wallace and Paige Tonight & The Graves sisters are on TV

Campers at Cono in the snow this week — Encourage Wallace and Paige who are there too

WINTER CAMP this week at Cono, with kids from four different states enjoying the snow, and growing closer to God. Please support and encourage Wallace Anderson, Ridge Haven Cono's executive director, and his wife Paige.These two have spent the entire fall semester at Cono, re-establishing the school, and you can spur them on with a gift tonight by visiting http://www.ridgehaven.org/donations

Sara and Collyn (nee Graves)

will show you how to set the table

The Graves sisters, Cono grads,

Sara and Collyn tell how to set the table!

Here's a clip of a news feature about their business:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/holidays/creating-the-perfect-holiday-tablescape/2518979/?amp&fbclid=IwAR037nqRrq_R_W4Cw-KJ2zZWyMtM07XQRMbN2Cz2kOZIarS-sUaTfhkGRn0

"Save the Date" July 9-10, 2021 - Cono Reunion

After two years, it's time for another Cono Reunion. Please save the dates July 9-10, 2021. We will be watching Covid and will monitor safety with precaution. But if the coast is clear, please plan to join us for another great get-together. More details, with ways to register, will follow. You can correspond at friendsofcono@gmail.com. Enjoy this photo from the last reunion in 2019.

"Save the Date" July 9-10, 2021 - Cono Reunion

After two years, it's time for another Cono Reunion. Please save the dates July 9-10, 2021. We will be watching Covid and will monitor safety with precaution. But if the coast is clear, please plan to join us for another great get-together. More details, with ways to register, will follow. You can correspond at friendsofcono@gmail.com. Enjoy these photos from the last reunion in 2019.

Donate online HERE to keep Cono serving young people.

Designate for Ridge Haven Cono.

 

Mailing address for checks written out to:

RH Cono, 215 Ridge Haven Road, Brevard, NC 28712

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A reflection by a Cono grad after 50 years

Cono’s  Reunion last year made me realize for the first time the great impact Cono had on my adult life.  I was blessed to be a part of the Cono family from age 5 in 1956 to my senior year in 1969.

I was deeply impacted by Leroy Gardner from fifth grade into my adult life and I do consider him to be my first personal mentor. His humility, his kindness and care, his desire for us to have fun—being pulled behind his tractor on sleds, playing tag in his barn hay loft, his giving work to Danny Parker and me, as young teens clearing rocks from his plowed field to swimming in his creek. As a young adult, whenever I came through Iowa, he was always the first person to go spend time with, after my family, til the Lord took him home and then that continues on with Dan and Liz to this day.

I remember as a youngster, the Wednesday evenings, sitting in a big circle in the Hearth Room with the fireplace burning, listening to Max Belz lead in songs, prayer, and Bible discussions. I remember the many meals in the Hearth Room, like a big family, and games and round table at the ping pong tables, the hours of ice skating on the lagoon, and coming in for hot chocolate and Mrs. Belz’s delicious sweet rolls.

Interestingly, looking back over 64 years, most of my adult life ministry involvement has been in that very similar setting----a family atmosphere of fellowship, food, deep relational connection in the ‘home church’ type setting from the mid 70’s to the present.

How grateful I am that God set me up to be receptive to, comfortable in, and thrive in that relational setting for the past 40+ years. I know without a doubt God used Cono to set me up for how He would  use and involve me with people, especially men, though that probably would not have crossed the minds of the leadership at that time. I am so thankful God cannot be put in a box and is so creative to show His love, live through, and provides “…good plans for our lives, to give us a future and a hope.” (Jer. 29:11)

Later, I will share “Journey With My Sons,” the story of 30 years after my blessed Cono years.

Sincerely,

pete denning

almost class of ‘70

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Our Contact Information
Ridge Haven Cono (www.ridgehaven.org)
215 Ridge Haven Road
Brevard, NC 28712
828-702-9510

Ridge Haven Prayer Partners

"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord."    1 Corinthians 15:58 NASB

Greetings in the Name above all names, our Savior, Jesus Christ! Here is a new prayer update for you who have committed to hold our camp ministries up to the Lord. We often forget that prayer is an essential work unto the Lord.. And Paul reminds us at the close of this letter to be diligent, abounding in this work in the Lord.

The Ridge Haven Board meets this month, Monday [14th] to Wednesday [16th]. The Lord blessed our camp ministries this Summer, both at Ridge Haven Brevard, and Ridge Haven Cono, with no outbreaks of Covid19. The challenges on staff were tremendous to follow the strict guidelines of safety and separation, and we are grateful! Understandably registrations were down, and the Fall schedule is pretty quiet considering the realities of churches and organizations dealing with their own restrictions. This, of course, has greatly challenged our financial situation - fortunately we are holding our own thanks to the generosity of our partners.

The Board president, Dan Nielsen, has scheduled a particular prayer emphasis in our agenda this month, and has requested that our prayer team join us in prayer. As he reminded me in Acts 1, the first thing the Lord instructed the new church was to go to Jerusalem and wait and pray. The Board is seeking this same Spirit to give wisdom, planning, unity and encouragement to our staff, and the ministry of Ridge Haven.

So please join us as steadfast prayer partners the week of September 14.

Your love and prayer support for this ministry will be mightily blessed by our gracious God!

In the promises of God,

ANDY WHITE

for the Board

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J. Andrew White

423.943.3903 (c)

Storm Knocks Out Power for Thousands in E. Iowa but Skips Cono

 

Storm spares Cono - note from Wallace The Derecho storm that came through Iowa has left almost everyone in Cedar Rapids without power… much of the city is shut down. It came within a few miles of Cono…many farms lost their crops on the other side of Walker. We have power. The Casey’s in Walker has shut down as they ran out of food and gas etc. and we are being told that you cannot get food as far away as Independence and people are going to Waterloo for supplies and gas.   We currently have four families who need us – one is with us as their whole roof was torn off. We are reaching out to others.   Please pray for this whole area. Vicki Syverson says it may be weeks before some areas in Cedar Rapids get power back.   Wallace

Donate online HERE to keep Cono serving young people. Designate for Ridge Haven Cono.   Mailing address for checks written out to: RH Cono, 215 Ridge Haven Road, Brevard, NC 28712