FIERCE & LOVELY: TABLE ROCK ADVENTURE

With only 10 father/daughter duos, this experience is intentionally designed to be small and personal. We have crafted an experience that will invite you to step away from the grind and enter the holy space of offering your daughter life and love for a lifetime. 


Unlike many of our Father/Daughter trips in the past, this is not a camping, backpacking, or canoeing trip in the wilderness. While there is great joy in being out in the wilderness, and God revealing himself to us there, we’re going to see what it might look like to engage his beauty and the beauty in the Father/Daughter relationship more on a “playground” type of setting. It’s going to be fun!

On trips like these, it is often easy for us men to get caught up in the practicals and logistics and lose sight of the heart. As you prepare for this summer's trip, we encourage you to take significant time to address your own life and story as you simultaneously think about your daughter's. An experience like this is meant to augment the fathering you are already doing, acting like an exclamation point on the end of your fathering sentence. Do not lose sight of the bigger story for yourself or for her.

Fierce and Lovely: Table Rock adventure is truly a one of a kind experience. We know that this trip is unique in that we will be out in a vacation hotspot for many, having fun in public places, and have some access to the outside world. However, much like our other experiences, our intent is to curate a trip that creates times throughout the day where we are away from our devices and other distractions, so that we can enjoy the goodness, joy, and beauty that is around us, and also focus on the relationships in front of us.

There is much more to come in the months ahead. We look forward to journeying with you and your daughter this summer!

Fathering daughters can be one of the greatest gifts in a man's life. It can also be extremely challenging. Whereas raising boys calls a father to remember for himself what it was like to be a boy, dads just don't have that same experience with girls.

The process of girls becoming women is both vastly different and strangely similar. Both sons and daughters need the intense intentionality and presence of their fathers. But they need it in different ways. Far more with daughters, fathers are called to assume a different posture with their girls in order to launch them into womanhood. Rather than teaching them about what it means to be a woman, fathers create both the space and the platform to launch her into the fullness of both her beauty and her strength.

As she emerges from the little girl into the young woman, she needs your presence, your strength, your guidance and your intention. While you cannot be the one to lead her into womanhood (that is her mother’s role), God designed you to be her security, safety, and strength from which she will take wing and fly. If a daughter feels close to her father now, she will trust the father's guidance and instruction in the future. Dad's role in raising daughters ultimately is more about clearing the path for her to become rather than teaching or training her (as he might for his sons)

If you haven’t already, you will soon be receiving some material that will help you as you prepare your own heart for this trip, and to engage your daughter’s as well. Please take the time to go through this material and consider the following questions about your own story and your engagement with your daughter:

What aspects of your own heart have been well cared for?

What aspects have been wounded

When you consider fathering your daughter, what excites you? What scares you?

How would you describe your current posture towards your daughter?

The more you can begin to engage these questions now, the more impactful your time in the Back Country will be with your daughter.

The trip will begin in the Springfield/Branson area, of southwest Missouri at approximately 1:00 pm on Monday, June 15rd. It is your responsibility to arrive there at that time ready to be “ALL IN!” We have asked that each participant to plan to arrive at the location (that will be disclosed later) in a personal or rented vehicle. You are more than welcome to begin arranging carpools with other participants on the trip as you are able to if that would be helpful. Please do not plan to use ride share for this trip, as we will be carpooling to various locations throughout the week, though we plan to stay mostly in the Branson area. Participants will be asked to cover their own gasoline costs. Our experience will conclude at approximately 11 am on Friday, June 19th in Branson.

This experience is a 4-night, 5-day adventure exploring the goodness of southwest Missouri. Each day we will be finding new adventures at theme parks, having some fun at the lake, exploring the outdoors, taking in a Branson show, and so much more! We have mapped out our days, and have divided them up to maximize our time together as a group, as well as having significant time just for father-daughter engagement.

With the exception of two restaurant lunches that participants are asked to cover themselves, all meals from dinner on Monday to breakfast on Friday are included in the cost of your trip.

Please keep in mind that while this area is NOT remote, and cell reception will be mostly available, we will be putting in some guidelines for communication back to home (or work, dads), and create some boundaries for device and TV time. Our heart is to not set up rules to govern our trip, but rather to create space for intentional conversations, reflection, presence, and joy for both of you on this trip.

If you have any questions at all about the trip, please email Michael Krommendyk.

Please note: For this trip, our accommodations will be at a modern, yet modest hotel near Branson. This hotel was recognized as Top 10 "Best New Hotels" in America for 2024 by USA Today’s Reader’s Choice Awards. All that to say, you can expect all of the modern amenities of a modern hotel such as “mini fridge, luxury toiletries, quality linens and terry, and recycling bin.”
Each father/daughter pair will be in a double queen room. The hotel offers a nice outdoor pool, a common space with board games, and so much more.
We will be having some free time, so feel free to bring activities that you and your daughter both enjoy.

Here’s what you need to bring:

• A Small Backpack (day-pack)

• Indoor and Outdoor clothing for 4-5 days

• 1-2 Swimming Suites

• Sun-shielding hat (optional)

• Tennis shoes

• Refillable 1L water bottles

• Sunscreen

• Insect repellent

• Sunglasses with strap (to keep them from falling off)

• Eyeglasses/contact lenses (if needed)

• Prescription medications (if needed)

• Toothbrush, toiletry kit

• Feminine products (if needed)

• Eye-mask (for sleeping)

• Earplugs (for sleeping)

• Camera (or your phone)

• Notebook and pen/pencil

• Bible

• A sense of humor and adventure!

While our days will not be overly strenuous it's important for participants to be in decent physical condition.

Please let us know ASAP if you have any physical limitations, medical needs, or concerns.