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LLYC steps into centuries-old traditions to deepen the Christian spiritual formation of our youth at Echo Valley.

In the Echo Valley kitchen, Wylie Shellhouse keeps menus and delivery schedules posted alongside church bulletins and an Orthodox icon printed on wood.

Live music has long been a touchstone here in the Frio River Canyon—from guitar-and-cajón camp songs at Roundup to spirited performances at Laity Lodge’s Cody Center...

Our oldest operating program stewards some of our oldest and deepest relationships, like Flour Bluff Independent School District, who has been coming to the Canyon since the ‘50s.

Echo Valley 2020 will bring $5.6 million dollars in improvements—including new cabins, landscaping, planned outdoor group programming space, and infrastructure updates—to support our larger camping groups.

Alamo City non-profit leaders spur each other on in their work alongside vulnerable families and children.

The H. E. Butt Family Foundation is the largest private employer in Leakey, Texas—a small town in Real County, Texas—just down Highway 83 from the Canyon and even closer to our hearts.

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.

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.

In 2017, the Foundation began testing and measuring three pilots in San Antonio—a mental health initiative, a capacity-building learning cohort, and a public storytelling effort. Each pilot is working to further the Foundation’s mission in three different but overlapping domains that benefit children and families.