Summer Ministries Team
The Sky Ranch Summer Ministries Team takes care of the curriculum, programming, and summer staff hiring of all summer camp programs. God has brought together an amazing group of leaders from all over the country with different skills and ministry experience. This team works hard to ensure that every camper and summer staff has a safe, fun, and spiritual growing experience at camp.
Associate Vice President of Ministry Programs
Hometown: Caney, KS
College: University of Kansas
Hobbies: Spending time with my family, watching Kansas Basketball and LA Dodgers baseball
Fun fact: As a military kid, I went to 3 high schools
Why I love my job: Sky Ranch changed the direction of my life as a 16-year-old summer staffer and I’ve been blessed to see hundreds of summer staffers and thousands of camper lives changed as well!
Senior Summer Camp Operations Manager
Hometown: Plano, TX
College: The University of Oklahoma
Hobbies: Spending time with people, exploring outdoors, and attempting to be the first customer at new restaurants
Fun fact: I have 26 screws in my face
Why I love my job: Sky Ranch equips those that come through its gates, campers and staff alike, and I am so grateful to serve in a ministry with this discipleship mentality.
Senior Summer Camp Staff Ministry Manager
Hometown: Madison, MS
College: Mississippi State University
Hobbies: Basketball, reading, cooking
Fun fact: Tried out for Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader
Why I love my job: Getting to see college students grow and progress in their discipleship!
Senior Manager of Summer Staff Recruiting & Retention
Hometown: Campobello, SC
College: Liberty University
Hobbies: Baking bread, pickleball, hanging out with my dawg
Fun fact: I used to live in El Salvador
Why I love my job: At Sky Ranch we have the incredible opportunity of walking alongside our staff in the ministry of the Gospel, prioritizing the word of God, discipleship, and intentional relationships. It is such a privilege to be a part of the Lord’s work here at Sky.
Senior Summer Camp Phase II Manager
Hometown: Louisville, KY
College: Western Kentucky University
Hobbies: Picking flowers, steeping tea, and going on walks with friends!
Fun fact: I have dual citizenship in Canada and the USA
Why I love my job: I love my job because of the discipleship that we get to do with our college staff and highschoolers!
Sigma Senior and Work Crew Manager
Hometown: Frisco, TX
College: University of North Texas
Hobbies: Fly fishing, playing and watching sports
Fun fact: Lived in Australia before the States
Why I love my job: I am on a team with incredible people and simply being around them I am called to a higher level of excellence professionally and spiritually. Excited to do the same with our guests and staff!
Quest CO & Sigma Junior Manager
Hometown: Crystal Lake, Illinios
College: University of Arkansas
Hobbies: Cars and running
Fun fact: I brazenly declined an invitation to join the math-letes in high school
Why I love my job: I love my job because I get to work alongside talented individuals who strive for excellence, love their jobs, love each other, and are focused on advancing the gospel.
Senior Summer Camp Manager of Phase 1
Hometown: D-Town (Dallas), TX
College: Texas A&M University
Hobbies: Chess, guitar, thinking I can dunk
Fun fact: I was born without wisdom teeth
Why I love my job: I love being a part of an organization that values the word of God and teaching it to the next generation!
Sky 1 & 2 Manager
Hometown: Madison, MS
College: Mississippi State University
Hobbies: Walks with friends, reading, and convincing people that Mississippi is better than Texas
Fun fact: I grew up with a pet ferret named Belly
Why I love my job: I love working at a place that desires to equip its' staff and campers alike with the truth and knowledge of scripture!
Sky 1 & 2 Manager
Hometown: Lindale, TX
College: Ouachita Baptist University
Hobbies: Playing board games, video games, and spending time with my wife!
Fun fact: I walked down the aisle at my wedding to Fireflies by Owl City
Why I love my job: I love getting to be a part of a team that strives to invest in meaningful relationships with students of all ages, who work every day to glorify God in all that we do!
Director of Day Camp
Hometown: Lindale, TX
College: Abilene Christian University
Hobbies: Hanging with friends, drinking Coca-Cola classic
Fun fact: I won the spelling bee in Kindergarten
Why I love my job: I get to work alongside some really great people as we learn how to equip summer staff to know and follow Christ.
Day Camp Administrative Assistant
Hometown: Green Bay, WI
College: Texas A&M University
Hobbies: Baking, knitting, hosting friends
Fun fact: I bought my first truck with money from the first cow I sold - and my truck looks just like the cow did (brown and tan)!
Why I love my job: I love that there’s a place for me, who has gifts that look different than the typical person in camp ministry! Serving the Lord in my job looks like streamlining processes and making my teammates’ jobs easier.
Day Camp Manager
Hometown: Wichita Falls, TX
College: Abilene Christian University
Hobbies: Running, reading, being outside
Fun fact: I love exploring different grocery stores
Why I love my job: The Lord has used camp ministry to grow me in my walk with Him, both as a camper and as a staff member, so I love that I get to be a part of His work in the lives of others through this ministry! I also love that my job allows me to come alongside college students as the Lord sanctifies them on their college campuses and as they work at camp.
Day Camp Manager
Hometown: Pontotoc, MS
College: Mississippi State University
Hobbies: Making homemade lemonade, growing plants and sharing cuttings of them with friends!
Fun fact: I learned how to drive a tractor before I learned how to ride a bike.
Why I love my job: I love my job because I love getting to see the Gospel be proclaimed to these sweet kids! We get to have such a special opportunity to sit down and open the Word of God with such young camper and walk them through the truth of the Gospel. We also get to walk alongside college staff and encourage them in the Word while they are in a season of constant changes with school.
Director of Champions Rodeo
As the 2001 PRCA World Champion Steer Wrestler, Rope’s career is peppered with championships and titles. His record of 37.4 seconds on ten head of steers still stands today. In 2004, Rope began a consultant relationship with Sky Ranch, and now serves full time, as Director of Equine Ministries. In addition to the summer camp horsemanship program, Rope developed and directs Sky Ranch Champions Rodeo Camps - a series of events, camps and clinics designed for the next generation of rodeo competitors, where they develop their skills, character, and faith. Rope’s wife, Candice Myers, serves as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sky Ranch. They live in Van, TX with their four children.
Director of Family Ministries
Kyle grew up in Norman, Oklahoma with a family that valued the importance of faith and family. In the summer of 2007, Kyle fell in love with Sky Ranch working as a counselor in Van, TX. After graduating, Kyle was hired full-time. In 2010, Kyle married his beautiful bride Brittany and they moved to Colorado where Kyle managed Sky Ranch Family Camp at Ute Trail. Kyle now serves as the Family Ministries Director, leading Family Camp at our two Colorado locations in the summer and coordinating Parent-Child Weekends at our Texas location during the school year. Kyle and Brittany love investing in families and have a heart for equipping parents to love and lead their families with God's design in mind. Kyle and Brittany live in Lindale, TX with their 4 sons.
Summer Camp Staff
Sky Ranch receives applications from and interviews roughly 2,000 college and high school students annually. About 700 students will be hired to become members of the Sky Ranch Family. Most college students attend school in Texas, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Arizona, though each year there are representatives from all over the US. Most of our high school staff have attended our Sigma leadership program and are from the DFW area. Each summer staffer has submitted an application with references, undergone an interview process, and attended a two-week staff training period. Each cabin consists of three to five college-aged cabin counselors and each activity has an Activity Team member overseeing it, keeping our staff-to-camper ratio no greater than 1:5. Cabins remain consistent throughout the summer with counselors staying together each week, to help with continuity, as well as learning how best to work with their age group and be the most effective ministry team possible.
Sky Ranch Cabin Counselors
- Are a year removed from graduating high school
- Majority are recruited from colleges in Texas, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Arizona
- Must submit an application and two references, as well as complete the interview process
- Are required to attend a two week staff training
- Stay with their campers during their time at camp while activities are overseen by activity specific staff
- Stay together as a cohesive team (3-5 counselors in a cabin - senior, senior assistant, and assistant counselors) and work with the same aged campers each week