July 11 Horse Riding Lessons

We switched over to Saturday morning sessions today rather than Sunday afternoon. Clint is the instructor while his wife Torrinda recovers from her surgery for the next few weeks.

We had 9 riders and 2 training horses today … one inside the round pen for the less experienced riders and one in the pasture for the two more experienced riders, Alice and Dominick. We will be adding 3 more children to the group next weekend… 2 brothers and a sister from Rio Vista. All of the younger riders are impatient to get out into the pasture for regular riding.

Eden Hull in the round pen and Alice Jones in pasture
Avery Gibson in the round pen and Alice Jones riding in the pasture
Hadleigh Kinnee and her horse

Horse Riding Lessons Class and Instructors

6 27 20 Horse Riding Lessons Class and Instructors

June 27, 2020

Horse Riding Lessons Class and Instructors

We were blessed to have Scott Baumgartner and Rebekah Tackett of Weatherford volunteer to step in and offer to provide riding lessons while our regular instructor, Torrinda May, recovers from her successful brain surgery on June 24. Six children had lessons in Weatherford on Saturday June 27 and really enjoyed it.

We will do weekly sessions with them each Saturday until Torrinda recovers fully.

Thereafter Scott and Rebekah have volunteered to help our organization reach out to additional resources needed for our ministry

Avery Gibson on her horse
Bella Trice starting her horse riding lessons
Eden Hull starting her horse riding lessons
Matthew Burgess staring his horse riding lessons
Lizzy Richardson starting her horse riding lessons
Kiley Gibson starting her riding lessons

Billboard CPS Abuse of Power

June 15, 2020

New Billboard in Town

As the billboard photo indicates, our 25 year long dedication to the safety and well being of high risk children has brought us to the point of a public campaign against the rogue agency misnamed Johnson County Child Protective Services. We have seen first hand for too long the consequences of this disorganization’s incompetence, arrogance, corruption and malfeasance. The children suffer and the bureaucrats prosper.

We hope to one day find a regional agency that is truly looking to reform its programs and people to actually serve the innocent children instead of the CYA prime directive in place at Johnson County CPS. With some other agency, we hope to share mutually beneficial case histories, strategies and tactics that are common to the child welfare goals of us both.

Johnson County CPS is NOT that agency and today is NOT that day

Big event Godley equestrian facility

Big event this weekend at our Godley equestrian facility.

The twins, Haven and Hadleigh Kinnee, are, at three years old, the youngest members of our youth group.

On Saturday morning, they had their first ever horseback ride.

The extrovert, try anything. never met a stranger Haven loved every moment of it and is a natural born horse

Lady. When her 10 minutes of riding time was up, she pleaded for more time.

Her introvert sister, cautious, quieter but very cuddly hugging Hadleigh was more demur and had enough at

5 loops of the round pen. She liked it and will grow into it, but a little slower than her sister.

We also brought in the first batch of chickens for the chicken coop this weekend. Our next addition will be a couple

small goats.

First group meal cooked and enjoyed by all 3

First group meal cooked and enjoyed by all 3

A new horse for our Godley facility

This past week, we added a new horse to our Godley facility. He is a 14 year old gelding that is very child friendly and will be perfect for the younger children learning their first equestrian skill and culture set.

They have not decided a name for him yet but promised to by next week.

On an additional happy note, Bella Trice, aged 11, was baptized on Sunday afternoon at our annual old fashion river baptism on the Brazos River in Glen Rose.

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