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In 2014, David and Deborah Rogers said, “Fifty years from now, we want the Foundation camp property to be even healthier and more beautiful than it is today.” Three years later, the Property Planning & Stewardship team completed its first-ever comprehensive Land Stewardship Plan to support diverse, balanced, robust, and native animal and plant life in the Frio River Canyon.

In 2017, H. E. Butt Foundation Camp served more guests than ever before as a record 24,716 people experienced the Canyon through the program.

In early December, LLFC partnered with an organization called YoungLives, a ministry affiliated with Young Life that focuses on parenting and pregnant teens.

Our daily work remains the same as it ever was—to serve families and children, to offer spiritual formation. We are working to change our little corner of the world, and we hope you’ll join us.

Outdoor School, our youngest program in the Canyon, has hit its stride. 2017 was an exciting season of change and growth, with new faces, new facilities, and new offerings.

Laity Lodge welcomed guests again this fall after having received some much-needed architectural and design attention, after over fifty years of near-constant use.

LLYC’s Summer 2017 was arguably its most successful ever, serving 1,540 campers from 1,168 households across Texas and beyond.

Dan Roloff has witnessed tremendous transformation in the organization since the 1980s. The quintessential oral historian of the Canyon’s best tales, “Ramblin’ Dan,” as he was sometimes known around the Canyon, retired on March 28.

Since the Foundation’s birth in 1933, our roots and our core commitments have remained unchanged. Yet each generation of Foundation leadership has expressed its mission in different ways based on the language of the day and the needs and opportunities placed before us in the Canyon and in our local communities.