Executive Director, Rodeheaver Boys Ranch
Mission: Rodeheaver Boys Ranch provides a home environment with religious, educational and vocational training for young men who have no home of their own because of difficult living situations, desertion, divorce, death, parental disability or a dysfunctional living environment. Boys must be 14 or younger upon entrance.
Serving Jacksonville: Based in Palatka. Begun in 1950 through the donation of 790 acres by Homer Rodeheaver.
Those served: Serves families in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
Biggest challenge: We receive no government funds to operate. All funds are gifts.
Biggest satisfaction: Seeing boys mature and receive the educational training they need.
Hometown: Lumpkin, Ga.
First experience with community service: While as a teenager and high school student at Chattanooga Central in Tennessee.
Your job before Rodeheaver Boys Ranch: Youth pastor and co-pastor in Milton for 18 years.
Upcoming events: Oct. 11-13: Palatka Fall Bluegrass Festival.
Contact information: www.rbr.org
[email protected]
386-328-1281