Sharing God’s love in therapeutic riding, equine assisted activities and engaging with nature&animals
07/04/2025
❤️❤️❤️❤️ 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Thankful for our freedoms and the great sacrifice of all that made and make it possible to be the land of the free and home of the brave!!
Have a happy and safe 4th everyone!!! Happy Independence Day!!!
06/23/2025
Our 5th Annual Riverside Ranch Charity Golf Tournament is quickly approaching!! Almost 3 months away! To play and/or sponsor click below ❤️🐴⛳️🏌️♀️🏌️
Monday September 29th at 9:30am
The Club at 12 Oaks
Holly Springs, NC
Thank you to the amazing crew from The Church at Clayton Crossings for coming out to serve at Riverside Ranch yesterday!
So much was accomplished!!!
✅ Run in shelter sand and mats leveled
✅ Manure cleared from pastures
✅ Weeds cleared from fence lines on every pasture and around our building
✅ Weeds from arena pulled
The joy of Jesus shines through you all!!❤️❤️
06/01/2025
From our most recent newsletter: “This spring session has been full of growth at the Ranch! We have seen growth in participant’s horsemanship skills, communication, compassion, and most importantly, connection with God and His creation. We have seen growth in our community at the Ranch as we see Christ’s love displayed in one another.
For me personally, this spring has been challenging. I was hospitalized with a tick illness in April. I’m home and doing much better than I was, but I’m still fighting it. I ask for your prayers as I continue to get my strength back.”
In Christ,
Sarah Valentine
05/21/2025
Our last lessons of the spring session were today followed by our award celebration and pizza party!
Thank you to everyone who makes our Adaptive Horsemanship Program possible! Thank you to our amazing participants and their families, our wonderful staff, incredible volunteers, generous donors, and faithful board members!
God gets all the glory! Thank you Jesus!
05/18/2025
Thank you Generation Church for giving your time today to help us with many farm chores!!!! You are a blessing to us!!
05/17/2025
Happy Saturday friends!❤️❤️❤️
05/03/2025
Having each others backs is everything ❤️❤️❤️
04/30/2025
Today would have been our beloved JaRule’s 23rd Birthday. JaRule is the only horse we have ever had at the Ranch that is registered and that we knew his birthday. ❤️🥳🐴
Beau, Benny, and Bear are not registered and we don’t know their exact birthday so today we will celebrate all our horses birthdays! Beau is 30! (We thought he was younger but the equine dentist confirmed 30 through the age of his teeth.) Benny is 12, and Bear is 11.❤️❤️❤️
Happy Birthday in Heaven, JaRule! Happy Birthday to Bullet! He would have been 20 this year! We miss our boys in Heaven and are grateful for our boys on Earth!❤️🙏🏻
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04/03/2025
TODAY is the LAST day to register! We only have 3 spots left! You are invited to be part of our Grief Group Day Retreat on Saturday May 3rd 9am-1pm.
Benny’s smile says it all! Thank you to our amazing volunteers who faithfully serve in our lessons. Thank you to our incredible participants and their families for being part of Riverside Ranch. Thank you to our generous supporters for giving financially to us. Thank you to all who pray for us. Thank Jesus for your love, provision, kindness and comfort.
1 John 4:19
We love each other because he loved us first.
Thank you God for your love! We see it overflow at the Ranch in so many ways!
03/31/2025
Don’t walk through grief alone.
You are invited to be part of our Grief Group Day Retreat on Saturday May 3rd 9am-1pm.
“In all of my grief God has shown me His love in so many ways and mostly it’s been through people, horses and nature. Grief and loss are a huge part of my story. Without community and support,grief which is already lonely and isolating, feels magnified. I hope you will take a step of faith and join us for this grief group”
-Sarah Valentine, Executive Director and Founder
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In the Spring of 2017, God began to shape a dream in Sarah's heart of bringing those who are hurting or isolated from society together. As Sarah took step after step of faith Riverside Ranch began to form. On February 17, 2018 Sarah and her husband Matthew found the perfect place to begin building their dream for the non profit, 36 acres in Clayton, NC.
Sarah is available to meet with individuals and groups to offer hope and healing using nature and animals. Riverside Ranch plans to offer therapeutic riding, connecting individuals with animals and nature. We want to give the opportunity to individuals to benefit from nature and the positive impacts of "Greenspace".
If you would like to donate to help those in need and help us with purchasing the many needs for our day retreat center please contact Sarah Valentine 980-322-7301 or riversideranchnc@gmail.com