OUR MISSION
Wilderness Warriors strives to build a program that strengthens the lifelong relationships between fathers and their children through focused educational experiences that are based around outdoor adventures. The program promotes leadership skills, sportsmanship, public speaking, and team building skills in children and enables fathers and other male role models to build family and inter-family relationships through shared and structured activities. The programs are built to help school-aged children understand a father’s vital role as a teacher and guide.
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Teaching Children to Mentor Each Other
"We believe even the slightest positive influence has the potential to change a child's life."
- Anonymous
This is one of our proudest traditions. Our groups are a mix of kids from 5-18 years old. Our older kids take pride in mentoring the younger Wilderness Warriors, and helping them with crafts, showing them the courses, showing them around camp, and guiding them through the weekend. While father and child spend quality time together, there are great opportunities for our older Warriors to mentor newer members.
Creating
Unforgettable
Experiences
"Life is about creating and living experiences
that are worth sharing."
- Steve Jobs
Our program promotes the strengthening of the relationship and bond between a father and his children. Fathers work with their kids to set up their tent and their supplies for the weekend, compete in events together, build crafts together, have fun at the zip lines, support during the Superman Swing and Rock Wall, work together around the holidays to donate to charitable events and recognize what is special about their relationship.
Teaching Children About Nature And The Outdoors
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
- Albert Einstein
We hold campouts in the spring and fall, which results in two campouts for the girls, and two campouts for the boys. In the rustic setting of our campsite, father and child will work together, play together, and have fun in the outdoors. Father and child will build crafts from materials made from nature, go on adventures together, and work with their group to set up for a weekend in the woods. This is an opportunity for fathers to get outside with their kids, away from the normal comforts of home, and to teach children how to camp in the outdoors, care for nature, and build a skill set to be able to create tools and crafts from natural materials.
Strengthening Bonds Between Father And Child
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
- Charles R. Swindoll
There are a few time honored traditions that strengthen bonds with our kids that are very special. One is buying a vest and adding your campout patches and awards to it. Your vest tells a story of your time together and your experiences. Another is "The Apple Hour". This is time that we all take to be alone with our children, to talk about why we are there together, what we appreciate about each other, and how much we love each other.
Our events and ceremonies throughout the weekends are time for father and child to be together and work together. There are also those walks in the woods that you and your child will never forget.
Building Lifelong Friendships
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
While the main focus of the program is strengthening bonds between fathers and their children, the children that are in our groups form friendships that last forever. When you come along in your group, our children form friendships with peers of the same age and their mentors. There is pride in the group that you are a member of. The kids make up songs and chants that they sing and yell together during events and ceremonies which creates a comradery that spurs life long friendships.