Logo
home
events
support
about
pictures
links
email

About C.O.R.


Mission and Vision

  • Nestled in the mountains of western Montana, C.O.R. Ministries is a Christian outdoor-based, non-profit organization that seeks to teach, equip, and train the current and coming generations in character and leadership development.
  • C.O.R Ministries believes that biblical ‘Character on Reserve’ is the spiritual foundation upon which obedience to God’s Word builds protective and effective walls of righteousness. A person’s character coupled with a healthy relationship with Jesus Christ will propel him or her Forward, Further, Faster in all areas of life.
  • Through safe wilderness programs such as backpacking, rock climbing, and whitewater rafting, our experienced and qualified facilitators will help you experience godly change in a healthy group setting. In addition to our wilderness programs, C.O.R. provides retreats and conferences to also teach people how to be men and women of character in their relationship with Jesus Christ, their families, their schoolwork, and their careers.


Character and Leadership Development: Why?
A conversation with Nathanael J. Bondi.



  1. Q: What type of company are you attempting to start?
    A: I am working on starting an outdoor based character and leadership development program based on Christian principles and values.

  2. Q: Why do you want to start this Christian outdoor based character and leadership development program?
    A: I believe that Christians as well as non-believers are lacking in character and leadership development.

  3. Q: Why are they lacking?
    A: They are lacking in character because character is formed through hard times and preserving through trials. We have Generation-X who learned how to get out of hard times from parents who dodged drafts and rebelled against all authority in the sixties and seventies. These parents now expect their children to simply grow up with no true guidance or direction from any higher authority- including the parents.

  4. Q: Why is this important to teaching character and leadership?
    A: Character comes from a heart of humility and discipline. When a child rebels against their own parents and do not suffer any consequences the child learns that Rebelling against authority has no significant or immediate consequences. Character and leadership deal with long term consequences and effects. If a child has not experienced short term discomfort and training which has significant long term gain, then character and leadership will be lacking in the long haul and when the tough things in life come along.

  5. Q: Why?
    A: Because a child has been trained to look for the way out that most fits them at that time and not what will be of benefit for themselves and others in the future.

  6. Q: Why is this significant?
    A: Most people have long range goals of getting married, owning a home, having children, seeing their kids go to college, long careers in a field that stimulates, challenges, and rewards them. People today have a Burger King mentality: “It’s my way, right away.” When they don’t get their own way what they experience is not pain but discomfort. What’s wrong with discomfort?

  7. Q: Why would they want to be uncomfortable if they don’t have to be?
    A: The Bible teaches that trials build perseverance and perseverance builds character. Character in turn gives us hope that God is still working in this world and that His promises are true. If a person doesn’t have discomfort then it provides no opportunity for them to learn to fight the battles that God has for them. The children on the generation that first entered the promise land had to learn to fight for themselves. Their parent’s had fought for the original cities, but God kept some of the Canaanite people in the land to teach the next generation how to fight- how to persevere, how to trust in God and to seek his ways and learn His promises and how to have a relationship with God. Then by following God, they would have life and have it more abundantly. God promised the Israelite that they would have rest and that their families, marriages, children, livestock, and crops would all be blessed if they simply followed God’s ways of doing things.

    God promised rest for their obedience- a rest that they didn’t have in 400 years under Pharaoh. In the New Testament God promised rest for those who obey Him and I John 5:3 -his “commands are not burdensome.” God’s commands are to love him with all our heart, mind, and soul, and the second command is to love others as ourselves. As we seek to know God’s heart, we will stumble upon the rest that he has for us.

  8. Q: So why do you want to start this outdoor based Christian company?
    A: God has a rest for us that can only come through knowledge of his Word and through spiritual and physical discipline. I want to see successful marriages, families, governments, schools, and churches where the love and presence of God rests on the people and the true of God is evident in their lives. Outdoor character and leadership development requires immediate changes to poor decisions and behaviors that could have discomforting, if not dangerous, consequences and effects.

    I want to see kids mentored and young adults grow and mature into older adults who can understand the Word of God and teach it to those that come behind us. If we are raised well then we will move Forward, Further, Faster.