Get ready for an outstanding weekend of fun, food, adventure, and spiritual impact. Our retreat will be marked by quality time spent by dads and daughters doing outrageously fun activities, theme games, and recreation. During your stay, you will meet amazing new friends and rekindle old friendships from years past. The bottom line is that we pull out all the stops for our Dads and Daughters Retreat. If you are looking for a unique time with your dad or daughter to build a deeper relationship, grow in your faith journey, connect with other great dads and daughters, laugh together, play together, and eat some great food, then this is the weekend for you.
Please check the weather prior to coming.
- Hiking shoes & clothes
- Warm jacket, hat, gloves (mornings and evenings are cold)
- Rain coat/windbreaker (optional)
- Closed toe shoes for adventure courses
- Personal warm beverage travel mug (for hot chocolate or coffee on the go)
- Reusable water bottle
- Towels and toiletries
- Flashlight
- Bible and journal
Everyone loves a good story. During the week together, we will participate in fun theme competitions, exciting activities, special off-site trips, family recreation and games, and teaching and worship that will enhance our time together.
We have special things planned for all ages. There will be activities that will bring families closer, teaching that will help us grow deeper in our faith, seminars that will challenge our thinking, kids programs that will provide learning and laughter, and food that will knock your socks off.
This will be an amazing, life-changing week, and we hope you will invite friends and family to join us. To encourage this, we are offering a $100 discount off of your family’s registration for any new family you invite that registers for the full week and stays in Mission Springs housing. That family will also receive a $100 discount. How does that sound?
SPEAKERS & WORSHIP LEADER
Elisabeth Hunnicutt Summers – Worship leader
Elizabeth is a worship leader and singer-songwriter based out of Santa Cruz, CA where she serves as Associate Worship Pastor at Twin Lakes Church as part of Twin Lakes Worship. She is a newlywed and loves spending time with her husband, Andrew. Her music ministry spans 15 years and includes 7 albums. Living in Nebraska, Colorado, Minnesota, and California have all served as influences in her music and her way of life. She loves meeting new people and building relationships and she hopes to do that very thing even through her music. She can regularly be found performing or leading worship at churches, colleges, retreats, events, and house concerts. Her heart is to see people awakened to God’s love and inspired to run after Him with their lives.
John Fanous – Speaker
John is the lead pastor of University Covenant Church in Davis and was raised in Southern California. He previously served as an associate pastor at First Covenant Church in Oakland, CA, and church planter of Edgewater Covenant in Pittsburg, CA. Prior to this, John served on staff and as a team leader with InterVarsity in the Bay Area. He is married to Beckie, and has two sons, who are 15 and 13 years old, and a daughter, who is 4 years old.
Ben Kerns – Speaker
Ben is one of the lead pastors at Marin Covenant Church. For the past 20+ years, Ben has been leading ministries, helping his church navigate this enormous cultural change. He has given leadership and voice to student ministries on a wider platform, ranging from denominational leadership, regularly speaking, writing, and coaching younger youth workers. Ben loves Jesus and is sold out to making the gospel of Jesus Christ and the family of God viable options for this next generation. He is committed to creating environments where people are welcomed freely, where they can encounter the living God, and where they can work out how to put their faith into practice.
September 6th-8th, 2019
Mission Springs is excited to host our 23rd annual Dads & Sons Retreat at Frontier Ranch. This weekend is simply one of the best you will spend together all year long. We craft our program to allow ample time for dads and sons to connect in meaningful ways by planning several hands-on activities that foster personal and spiritual growth and new challenges for all ages.
Packing List
Please check the weather before you come to Frontier Ranch. It can be hot during the day and cool at night.
- Sleeping bag (extra blanket, optional)
- Sleeping pad (optional for extra comfort) camping mattresses are provided for cabins
- Pillow
- Warm clothes for night time
- Layers for warm days
- Closed toe shoes for Adventure Courses
- Long pants for Mini Bikes (8th gr. and below)
- Shower shoes
- Towel (or 2)
- Swim suit for Slip ’N Slide
- Toiletries
- Flashlight or Headlamp
- Hat/Sunglasses
- Sunscreen
- First aid kit / bug spray
- Earplugs (for light sleepers)
- Bible & Journal
- pocket knife