Elizabeth Phillips
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And I was like, well, he's probably heard of Kanakuk.
And Tim was like, no, he hadn't heard about it.
So it's the large.
Yeah.
Well, they do offer a Catholic mass for the very small group of Catholics.
That go to Kanakuk.
But this camp has been around 100 years, and it's been under the White family's leadership since the 1950s.
In the 70s, that became Joe White and his wife, Debbie Jo White.
And it's an evangelical sports camp.
Ton of Christian celebrities have gone there, sent their kids there, performed there.
It was the place in the 90s.
You were considered kind of upper class.
And it's expensive.
I mean, thousands of dollars to go there for a week.
attracted kids from all over the country.
They claim all 50 states and several countries abroad to Taney County, Missouri, southwest Missouri, every summer, driving about 25,000 families to that part of the state.
You fly into Springfield if you fly, but it's in the greater Branson area.
Yeah.
Have you ever been to Branson?
It's like a Christian Las Vegas.