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Relationships

We help our boys develop relationally through counseling, our in-residence program, school and community engagement, and interacting with the public at our Community Store and Quick Lube.

Spiritual Formation

At the heart of our ministry is spiritual formation. Our boys are introduced to Christ and live within a gracious, truth-filled environment.

Education

With small classes and individual attention, our boys are able to get back on track in their education and prepare for meaningful and productive futures.

Our Program

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Seed to Vision: How God-Inspired Ideas Become Reality

By Steve Finn, Executive Director, Chestnut Mountain Ranch

Seed to Vision is a must-read for anyone with a God-sized idea who is unsure what to do next. Peppered with personal stories, former metro-Atlanta police officer turned boys' home and school founder Steve Finn shares the eight key tools God used to turn his seed of an idea into a vision and ultimately a reality--and how you can use them too. Be inspired to see that with God nothing is impossible--the idea He gave you can become reality.

Building boys into men

Restoration and reunification

Community and change

Adventure and learning

Friendship and spiritual growth

Chestnut Mountain Ranch provides a Christ-centered school and home for boys in crisis and in need of hope and healing. Partnering with their families, we pursue family restoration and reunification.

Our educational program is geared to help children develop spiritually, intellectually, physically, emotionally, and socially.

When I first arrived at the Ranch I had a quick temper. School life was not average. My parents were addicts, and they didn’t give a crap what I did. I realized over time that I needed Christ to help me. It was Christ and the Ranch staff that helped me.

The past was hard and rough. My family was not in a good state of mind, so I had to start listening…I was helped by doing one on one conversations and working through it.

When I first came to the Ranch, I was very disrespectful to my parents. My family was not willing to work with each other. I was not willing to change until I started to talk about it. The Ranch staff would take a walk with me or go fishing and talk.

I was a train wreck when I first arrived at the Ranch. I was always in “shut down mode” when I did not get my way. I was very manipulative to others. My family wasn’t much of a family at the time of me arriving at the Ranch. I decided to change by not blaming others and looking at myself.

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