News & Events

During our Founder's Retreat this year, the participants were blessed to be able to screen a brand new promotional video for Wears Valley Ranch. Produced by the Bingham Group in Knoxville, TN, this video highlights the past, present, and future of WVR and features many of our staff and students. You will also be blessed by God's grace, mercy, and faithfulness to the ministry of WVR. Watch it now!

Each year, up to 12 college students or recent college graduates devote a year of their lives to mentoring the students at Wears Valley Ranch.  The Mentors serve alongside the houseparents, helping disciple and tutor children from difficult situations.  They have the opportunity to change the lives of these kids, and many have had their own lives changed as well.

 Since 1992, St. Andrew’s School at Wears Valley Ranch has achieved remarkable success working with students from diverse backgrounds in a tutorial program.  This model of individualized education has allowed remedial students to regain lost ground and other students to enter college as early as fifteen years of age.  By developing a Homeschool Umbrella Program, it is our desire to reach out to homeschooling families and expand our educational program beyond the bounds of our campus.

Wears Valley Ranch is now accepting applications for houseparent couples.  For more information, contact Lorie Wolfe at lwolfe@wvr.org or 865-429-0372. You can also download a staff application here.