Thursday, April 7, 1994
The Battalion
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foney from donations will be used for school-
ks, desks, and most of all, a new schoolhouse to
eplace their current two-room facility, Margaret said.
Wight now, the O’Quinns have only earned
snlugh money to pour the foundation that sits emp-
;y|n a cleared pasture.
IfBetause the O’Quinns prefer to take in children
from the Bryan-College Station area, all but two of
Sonnie Easley plays with one of the ranch's baby
Mats. The boys tend to the goats on a daily basis.
the Still Creek boys come from local families.
“We have so many needs in our community,”
Margaret said. “And that’s why we feel we need to
support them by taking care of their children.”
Although the ranch has encountered many obsta
cles, the boys and O’Quinns said they are grateful for
the many rewards.
“It is rewarding when a new child, who does
want to be touched, comes to me after a week and
wants me to hug them,” Margaret said.
Dan said boys often come back to say how much
they appreciate what the ranch did for them.
With so many things to be grateful for, the
O’Quinns said they find it most difficult to see a boy
go home when he is not ready.
They begin to do good in the program and think
it’s OK to go home, Dan said. But what they don’t
realize is that the problem is with their home envi
ronment, not them.
A false hope builds up in them because they’ve
seen a brighter side of life, Margaret said.
“The boys are all happy to be here,” she said.
“But they would rather be at home. Those family
ties are very, very strong.”
Most of the boys receive Christ when they are at
the ranch and make a change for better, Margaret
said. They are sometimes on a great spiritual high
when they go home; and after a day in that atmos
phere, they come back with a complete darkness.
Fifteen-year-old Logan D. Williams said Still Creek
has really enhanced his life.
"I feel loved and appreciated,” Williams said.
“My life has changed.’
Sonnie Easley, 1 4, and a newcomer to Still Creek,
said his goals have changed and someday he would
like to go to college. Because his grades have im
proved since he came to the ranch, he has a good
chance of doing that.
The future for the Still Creek Boys Ranch is packed
with plans for growth and expansion.
First, they want to complete the schoolhouse,
Margaret said. And eventually, they would like to add
on for a widow ministry; because like the boys, wid
ows are left lonely and desolate, she said.
But for now, the O’Quinns continue to focus on
the boys.
“We are trying to restore back to them a hope that
has been taken away,” Margaret said.
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