July 2 Reunion (Register Now) & Conoites in Heaven

 

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Reunion at Cono

60 days from now

Now With the Lord -

In Heaven...

Ted Fangman, longtime Cono Director of Maintenance.

Ted's obituary.

Alyca Leet, Cono librarian for many years.

Alyca's obituary.

Tim Malone, Cono Class of 1971,

passed in Portland, Oregon.

Back to that Reunion -

Special Appearances

 

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Songwriter and singer James Ward is also slated to come.

And many of the Deutschmann Family members.

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

Art Show, Relationships & Water Lines

Under the sponsorship of the Cono junior high and high school students – and the faculty – a "Decade by Decade" Art Show attracted community children and adults on March 31. The smaller kids in the first picture are part of a home school co-op that operates at Cono - led by Mike and Rose Rehberg. Mike is Cono Class of 2000.

 

Cono students Braxtyn Gardner and Addison Weber.

Jim and Alyca Leet came to the Art Show, here with Dan and Liz Gardner. The Leets served on the staff at Cono in the 90s and 2000s. Pray for Alyca, who is battling cancer. Sending our love and prayers to you Alyca, for all the love you showed us at Cono...

Rural water will come to the Cono campus for the first time in 70 years (it has always been well driven), making fire protection through sprinklers possible in three key year-round dorm areas and increasing overall capacity to 172 campers by as soon as this summer. 

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George Birchler, former teacher,

touched many of our lives

George passed on Saturday, April 2, after a battle with Parkinson's. Here is his obituary.

You can mark a memorial gift in his honor, below, as his family has named RH Cono one of two places to do that. Be sure to designate for RH Cono, in memory of George Birchler.

 

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keep Cono serving young people.

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Mailing address for checks written out to:

RH Cono, 215 Ridge Haven Road,

Brevard, NC 28712

July 2, 2022 Reunion Registration Open

 

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Winter Camp last weekend at Cono

Many supported Cono in 2021. Thank you! Here's what that does.

Cono Christian School is in its new semester, on Jan 1 we finished our second annual week of Winter Camp, then last weekend, over the MLK weekend, we hosted a group of 64 campers from Illinois. What a great start to the new year. Now we look forward to our Cono School Reunion this summer and weeks of summer camps and retreats. How is this happening? Through financial support that you and others can send. Cono is both a School and a Camp & Retreat Center. Sprinklers for fire protection and municipal water is being added to campus this spring so that we can host another 100 people on campus. Your gifts make this ministry and these improvements possible. If you've already given, THANK YOU!

 

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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 to Cono Reunion 2022.

Songwriter and singer James Ward is also slated to come.

Donate op 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

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

School's Open

 

These 21 students are in the Stam Library, taking in the daily news as part of their study. Twelve students are part of a home school cooperative, the other are full-time students under primary teacher Rebecca Gojda (pictured below). For a full description go to cono.org Here's Rebecca Gojda (below), one of six staff members. Becca is a licensed Iowa 6-12th grade teacher. She was born and raised in and around Augusta, Georgia. She has been a faithful and exciting part of our summer team at Cono for the last four summers and became a Walker resident last August 2020 after graduating from the University of Georgia in May 2020. Letter from the Director:   It has been wonderful “watching” the Lord revive Cono here in the Midwest. I would love to tell you sometime how we feel the Lord literally forced us here and how now we could not be more excited. Saying “excited” says a lot since in the last year we have two grandchildren born near us in North Carolina! It’s been hard being away, but so worth it.   Ridge Haven had been considering opening another campus out West (I actually had my eye on the Colorado Mountains and a camp there) but the Lord had other plans, as Cono came on our radar. I have known about Cono and I was a recipient of its ministry when I worked both at Covenant College on Lookout Mountain, and Covenant Seminary in St. Louis. Then my wife Paige reminded me that she came to the Lord at a church camp in Iowa. She is from Rochester, Minnesota. Next, our President of our Board was born and raised in South Dakota and reminded me of his love for the Midwest… so it seemed the Lord had all the “pieces” of the puzzle already in place.   We love it here. We love the people. We also see firsthand the huge need. We want to be part of the transition that the small farmers are going through, and we pray that the Lord will allow us to be part of a renewal. Churches all over the country are losing youth right and left, and it is even more acute here where the churches are small. And the school system is challenged, as it is everywhere. “But God!” It’s my favorite phrase in the Bible as it assures me “but God” is working. As we know, the Lord has a plan and He always has His remnant being prepared and preserved. Our pilot program is a hybrid of homeschooling with regular classroom instruction – so that families are involved – but we also have teachers. So many homes these days have both parents working, and many homes are single parents who can neither afford private school nor have the ability to homeschool. I firmly believe that we must go after our young people full force. Currently we are losing them, and we cannot continue to sit back and let that happen. Ten years ago, we complained that we were losing our kids and their faith when they went off to college… then we realized how few high school kids were in church, and now you hardly find any junior high kids attending. In our communities around Cono, there are simply no youth groups at all.   So along with having camp, retreats, and restarting the small school here at Cono, we started a youth group each week by opening up our gym. We consistently get 15-20 kids. This year we are also having youth group on Saturdays. Youth groups were important with my three kids growing up. Having a slghtly older young adult to be able to speak into our kids’ lives was amazing and helpful. Just having a safe and controlled space for them to hang out was so important. I hope that the churches in the area will begin to see the benefits and fruit of such youth ministry, but for now, Cono can fill the void. It has been neat to see kids coming from three different school districts and four different churches around Cono… plus we have several kids who have never stepped foot in a church…   I am just excited with a new year ahead of us. The summer was so great and now we get to build on that. There are certainly a lot of obstacles for sure. Satan and his minions certainly don’t want us here, “but God.” We barely made it during the pandemic. It was so hard and so there were so many unknowns. Yet, the Lord allowed us to stay open at both locations (North Carolina and Cono) without missing a week. We had some really small weeks, but the ministry continued. God indeed provided and through it all we were able to restart the school. And this summer was our best ever at both campuses. So the Lord has “restored the years the locust have eaten.”   Wallace Anderson Ridge Haven Camp and Retreat Center Brevard NC – Cono IA 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 Donate op 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

82 Kids on Campus This Week!

 This week we have 82 on campus for camps … next week is only 53, but hey, we love it. The picture below is from one week ago, our first week of full summer camp. Kids had just played "The Greatest Game Ever."

Please pray as we are meeting with new families re: their kids joining us this fall. We are not going to do elementary school this year as we have a group of 4-5 families that are going to use our campus for a homeschool coop. In exchange, the leader who was a science teacher is going to teach our science once a week.

 

This summer has been amazing… the Lord has so provided.

Thank you all again for your prayers, vision, support, and care, 

Wallace Anderson, Exec. Director, Ridge Haven Cono

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Workers Volunteering

Volunteers in the last weeks have been insulating the camper cabins. These folks are from a group called "Sowers." What a blessing they are.

School will be opening for a second straight year in the fall.

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Mailing address for checks written out to:

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

Why I Still Support Cono

 Mary Anna and I still love to support Cono because kids are still the focus. This is a picture of the day camp kids during the month of June. Praise the Lord for each one of these young souls, hanging out on the rock that I climbed as a kid over 60 years ago. And THANK YOU to those are already supporting. - Andrew Belz

And I loved this one I got from Cono, with this caption:

"Day campers learning what a testimony is..."

and workers still volunteering...

Ed and Linda Comers building a pallet shelf for the campus. They are one couple

of several traveling volunteers who come to help.

This is our first summer having eight full time Camp Summer Interns (CSI) at Cono for all eleven weeks of this summer's day camp and full camp. Here are the interns at Colfax Center PCA Church's 150th Anniversary, also with Wallace and Paige Anderson, and J Abels, a friend of Cono.

 

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