Grand Canyon Synod of the ELCA

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SOFIA: Connecting cultures at camp

In this week’s Story of Faith in Action (SOFIA), we meet Matt Rusch, director of Outlaw Ranch, who started from scratch in building a family camp connecting cultures.

The idea was to make family camp look like the church in South Dakota, which is both multilingual and racially diverse, he said. "We just jumped into this,” he said. “[There was] no model. We [thought], ‘We know God is in the mix, so somehow it will work out.’”