10/09/2026
As we celebrate our one-year anniversary this week, we wanted to share a little more about our journey and how serving turned into a calling. 🤍
About a year ago, Gabrielle Reineck began volunteering at Eirene Ranch as a session host for our Tuesday evening elementary students. At the same time, she was walking through her own grief following the sudden death of her husband.
Over that first year, something began to change. Gabrielle felt the Lord calling her deeper—not only to serve, but to learn to mentor and eventually lead sessions herself.
This month, Gabrielle joined Karen and Olivia, another Eirene Ranch volunteer at the International Ranch Ministry Conference. She shared this reflection after returning:
“For me, the conference became much more than a learning experience. It was also an opportunity to continue my own healing journey after losing the love of my life. The workshop that impacted me most was called Joy in the Mourning. During that workshop, I came face-to-face with just how broken I still am and how heavy grief can be at times. But as I encountered the Lord there, something else happened. I was empowered and equipped with the tools to lead Joy in the Mourning, an eight-week session designed to walk alongside women who have experienced trauma and/or loss. Through that experience, the Lord reminded me that even though I am broken and He is slowly putting the pieces back together, He can still use me. My prayer is that God will use what I have experienced—my trauma, my loss, and my own continuing journey of healing—to help me minister to other women as they walk through their own. I may still be healing myself, but perhaps that is part of what allows me to sit beside someone else in her brokenness and remind her that she does not have to walk through it alone.” 🤍
