We’ve just wrapped up another great summer at the Ranch! We’ve seen so many incredible campers meeting Jesus and learning how to follow him. And it has been encouraging to watch as campers try new things and step into leadership roles. We are looking forward to preparing for summer 2018!

As we start planning, we are including a fresh website design, a new logo and a modification to our name.

Let’s start with our name and logo. Beginning today, we are officially called InterVarsity Circle Square Ranch Spruce Woods. We realize that’s a long name, but there are two important reasons we’ve chosen to use it.

We are one of nine camps and more than 65 campus groups that are owned and operated by InterVarsity, a Christian non-profit youth organization. Every year, InterVarsity provides opportunities for more than 20,000 children and youth to grow in friendship, leadership and faith either at camp or on campus. The name InterVarsity connects us all to each other and helps people recognize us more easily. Our new logo is designed to fit within a family of logos that tie all InterVarsity’s ministries together visually.

We are changing our location name from Austin to Spruce Woods because we believe it better reflects the kind of place we invite campers to experience – a natural, rural setting with lots of space to breathe, and a similar environment to that of Spruce Woods Provincial Park, the 269 sq. km area we are close to. Our property includes some lovely spruce groves, so it seemed a good descriptor for us to use.

Our new website is bright, bold and conveys the energy and excitement of camp. We hope you’ll enjoy it. We’ve worked hard to ensure the website is user-friendly, regardless of what device you are on.

If you have any questions about our news, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Best regards,