Our Mission
To be a recreational playground for the Adaptive Nation - where hope is renewed, families are honored, love is shared, and healing can begin.
Building Community
We believe the work of building Community is the noblest work a person can do; and the desire for community is the deepest hunger a person can have.
"It is what we were created for. It's God's desire for our life and the one indispensable condition for human flourishing […] A community is not simply a group of people who live together and love each other. It is a place of resurrection."
-Jean Vanier
Our guiding principles are how we do life at The Centers - come join us!
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Seeking joy by itself won't work. We need to to tie it to our values - to seed joy in our behaviors, and actions, we need to pursue it even in the difficult pursuit.
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We are a great place to play, purpose, commune, and eat. Everything we do is to enhance the family experience, with programming and events that elevates the family as needed and necessary.
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We actively participate in making our community a better place to live, to find opportunities to serve through tithing of our time, talents, and treasure.
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Giving great service is an honorable profession. The key to our success - a smile, a handshake. It's the core of who we are. With respect to “Cheers”, where everybody knows your name.
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Provides stability, enriches lives and helps people grow. It comes in a variety of applications, and opportunities, the foundation for everything - challenging & rewarding; but life stands still without it.
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We build mutually rewarding, long-term relationships with our customers, staff, partners and suppliers. We base this on a commitment to each other’s success, mutual respect, and shared values.
Research supports recreation as a source of healing.
Terrapin Adventures, 2016
Their study revealed that challenge courses and team building activities “impacted the participants at an emotional and social level,” and most participants saw a noticeable increase in their “emotional and social skills.” Of the 120 participants, 79 stated that the activities had some type of an impact on their ability to overcome fear, 76 noted a positive impact on self-esteem, 104 trust, 97 confidence, 83 empathy, 75 ease of stress, and 94 noted a positive outlook on life after their afternoon on the challenge course.
From the data, it shows that placing the participants in challenging situations does increase their trust level with themselves and others. This carries over into the participants’ daily lives, according to the National Recreation and Park Association, who cite the ultimate goal of ropes courses as transferring “learning from the ropes course experience to their everyday lives”.