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               MISSION STATEMENT                "To present a year-round quality Christian camping center as an evangelistic force for Jesus Christ; developing and training well-balanced Christians as an arm of local Gospel preaching churches."

Trail's End Ranch is a nondenominational Christian organization under the direction of a board of directors. The official title of the organization is "New Life Fellowship of Montana, Inc." It has been fully recognized by both federal and state governments as a 501 (C3) non-profit organization and all gifts are tax-deductible. The federal ID # is 810381806. It is not connected to any other church or organization.

Location: Trail’s End Ranch is located on 720 acres of beautiful hill country, 5 miles S.E. of Ekalaka, in the extreme Southeastern corner of Montana. It is in the middle of the Custer National Forest and surrounded by plains.

Doctrine: We believe in personal salvation by grace through faith, the blood atonement, the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, and the pretribulation return of Christ. We are non-charismatic in our teaching on the Holy Spirit.

Leadership: The Executive directors are Bob and Pat Anderson. They have both been in camping more than 40 years, including 10 years with Word of Life camps in Schroon Lake, N.Y., 11 years as founders and directors of Teen Valley Ranch in Plumtree, N.C., and since 1978 at Trail’s End Ranch. The camp directors are Jim and Kim Pardee.  They have been in camping since 1982, and serving here at Trail's End Ranch since 1993.

Our Goals

• To bring each camper to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

• To disciple each camper and help him/her grow into a mature Christian.

• To deal with each one as an individual and help him/her develop physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually into a well balanced individual.

• To encourage each camper to return home to serve the Lord, be a witness for Him, and become active in a local gospel preaching church.

This year-round Christian camping ministry is a quality ranch style Sports and Adventure camp for all ages. TER is an independent, fundamental, home missionary ministry that emphasizes evangelism, discipleship and witnessing. It is a balanced ministry to the whole person.