Equifest of Kansas 2024

SPECIAL GUESTS

RON McDANIEL Ron McDaniel and his wife Nancy live in NW Arkansas, where they have three kids and four grandkids. They were also foster parents, hav ing fostered teenagers for 5 years. They have horses, dogs, and just enough cattle to be in constant debt to the bank. Ron works in the Equine division for

BRAYLEY FRAZIER Brayley Frazier, crowned Miss Rodeo Kansas 2024, was born and raised in Garden City, Kansas. Brayley was deeply involved in FFA live stock and horse judging, and FCCLA

during high school. A rodeo competitor for 15+ years, Brayley was honored to assume roles as National High School Rodeo Association event director for poles and calf roping at the state level. Brayley looks forward to repre senting Kansas in the next year and meeting new faces along the rodeo trail. Meet Brayley at EquiFest! She'll be serving as Rodeo Royalty throughout the event.

Merck Health Company and day works for area ranches. As a testament to his cowboying skills, the cow boss at Adams Cattle Company said, “Hiring Ron was like losing two good men.” Ron and Nancy actively support their church as well as the Remount Foundation, a therapeutic facility that helps our men and women returning from com bat. They also support the CALL which is an organization in Arkansas dedicated to not only raising awareness about the need for families to take in foster children but is run by members who are foster parents themselves. Ron is truly grateful to have made his living working in the Animal Health Industry. Reciting poetry has taken him all over America, from Florida to Alaska. In 2015, he competed in the National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo (NCPR) and won the Humorous-Rising Star division. He went back to the NCPR and won the Humorous-Silver Buckle division and the Reciter Serious-Silver Buckle division. He enjoys anything that keeps him horseback, being with his family, and writ ing about himself in 3rd person. Thursday w 1:00 w 4H Stage w Coffee Talk-The Importance of Rider Fitness for Life, with Sally Batton, Julie Goodnight and Ifa Simmonds Friday w 11:45 w 4H Stage w Coffee Talk-Riding Oppor tunities, with Sally Batton, IEA's Jennifer Eaton, IHSA Coaches Shanda Mattix & Ann White Friday w 1:45 w 4H Stage w Introducing the Red Hawk Family & Native American Traditions Saturday w 1:30 w 4H Stage w Coffee Talk-Personal Approach to Liberty, with Guy McLean & Patrick Sullivan

STEVE STAFFORD Pastor Steve Stafford is the founding Pastor at Risen Ranch Cowboy Church, which became a church plant in March of 2006, in Carthage Missouri. He has served in ministry in the Cowboy culture for the past 30 years. First with Cowboys for Christ and then in Rodeo Cowboy

Ministries traveling over the Midwest, preaching at rodeos, horse shows, country fairs, clinics, ranches, big and small churches, trail rides, or wherever he was invited. He became a church planter in 2006, with the intent of starting Cowboy churches wherever he could. He has helped in some way start cowboy churches in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Illinois, Hawaii, and Oklahoma. He was inducted into the Better Horses Hall of Fame in 2014, honoring a lifetime of serving the horse & livestock industry in ministry. He is a contributing writer for Better Horses Magazine , is on the Better Horses Radio Show weekly, and a contribu tor for Better Horses Television .

Cowboy Church Sunday Morning Service w 9:15 w 4H Building

Join us for a complimentary pancake breakfast at 7:45am Hear updates from Kansas Horse Council at 8:15am

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