With our summer service ranch, we provide opportunities for 60-90 participants, 15 seasonal staff, some full-timers, and numerous volunteers to engage with each other in daily community service projects, and challenging, creative, and educational activities. We learn to value community, relationships and hard work as the community benefits from our labor and the interaction with the young participants. We work hard and we play hard in the outdoors, and we discuss the process with all involved throughout the experience. We focus on principled living, demonstrating integrity, respecting nature, being mindful of the needs of the community—how our actions and decisions can have positive or negative consequences for others, and how facing and overcoming challenges, especially when we are helping others, can help us to feel better about ourselves and our own capabilities and goals.