Rush Creek Sanctuary - BTKL Education Animal Rescue

Everyone come see us.

🫏🐴 Open House at the Sanctuary! 🫏🐴

Join us on November 14th, 2026 from 2-4PM to come and see the Sanctuary, meet the professionals as well as the horses, donkeys, bison, see the Healing Barn, and the beautiful place where Veterans making their way to our Equine Therapy and Retreat Program will stay.

Family friendly - all are welcome and encouraged to come by!

See you at Rush Creek Sanctuary on 11/14! 🐴🫏

🔥 25 YEARS OF CAMPFIRES… AND A NEW CHAPTER OF HEALING 🇺🇸🐴

For 25 years, our camp has been a special place for Scouts to gather, learn, grow, sit around the fire, and make memories under the Texas sky.brooks has water , cold and electric.

Now, we are incredibly excited to open this special place to another group very close to our hearts: our veterans, their families, and nonprofit veteran organizations.

We want this camp to become a place where veterans and families can simply come out, slow down, talk, listen, heal, and reconnect.

Sometimes healing doesn't happen inside four walls.

Sometimes it happens sitting beside a campfire.

Sometimes it's a conversation with another veteran who understands.
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Sometimes it's watching the fire, listening to the horses nearby, and realizing you don't have to carry everything alone.

Our vision is to create a beautiful outdoor gathering area for campfire chats, peer-to-peer support, fellowship, family time, and healing in nature. ❤️

We are currently working to upgrade the campsite with a new fire pit, string lighting throughout the camp area, and improvements to our restroom and shower facilities. We have these items, but we need to convert them to have handicap-accessible capabilities so that our veterans and family members with mobility needs can comfortably and safely use them.

And this is where our community may be able to help. 🙏

We are looking for new or gently used building materials, solar or electric outdoor string lights, fire-pit blocks or stone, materials and fixtures needed to convert our restrooms and showers for handicap accessibility, plumbing supplies, lumber, and other materials that could help us complete these improvements.

We would be incredibly grateful for donated materials, but we would also love to hear from businesses, contractors, suppliers, plumbers, electricians, or individuals who may be able to provide materials or labor at a greatly reduced cost.

Every board, block and strand of lights can become part of something much bigger: a place where someone sits down, opens up, and begins to heal.

This camp has already spent 25 years creating memories.

Now we want its next chapter to help change lives.

🇺🇸 Healing Veterans. Saving Horses. Changing Lives. 🐴❤️

Rush Creek Sanctuary
Rescue • Recovery • Hope

Please share this with contractors, builders, suppliers, electricians, plumbers, Scout families, veteran organizations, and anyone who may want to help us create this special place.

💜🐴 Sampson & M⅛e: Healing Together, One Step at a Time 🐴💜

Every morning, Sampson and I wake up with the same goal: fight a little harder, get a little stronger, and take one more step forward.

Neither one of us chose the pain that brought us to this place, but somehow God put us on this healing journey together.

Sampson has been through so much in his life, and now I understand his struggle in a completely different way. There are days when walking hurts. There are days when progress feels painfully slow. But then I look at him, and he looks at me, and we keep going.

We are learning together that healing isn't always measured in big milestones. Sometimes it's one more step. A little less pain. A little more strength. Or simply finding the courage to get up and try again.

Every day we fight harder, and every day we get a little better.

Sampson is teaching me just as much about healing as I could ever teach him. Maybe that's one of the greatest gifts these incredible horses give us. We rescue them, but somewhere along the way, they reach into our hearts and help rescue pieces of us too. 💜

I also want to give a very special thank you to Ashley, who sponsors one of Sampson's joint medications. That medication helps give him comfort and mobility, and your kindness is truly part of his healing journey.

So Sampson and I will keep going. One day. One step. One victory at a time.

We aren't giving up on each other.

God has brought us this far, and I believe He is walking right beside us for every step still to come. 🙏🐴💜

Healing Veterans. Saving Horses. Changing Lives.

We are so exited to be working with Melissa Simmons and Fonzy's Farm Rehab and Sanctuary

She is our official quarantine prefered partner and medical needs rehab facility.
If you are looking for a facilty please check her out.She also has a few equine avalible .

We had a great turn out yesterday at Tractor Supply. Lots of people interested in adopting. Hopefully we get some visitors soon and some babies new homes. Thank you to Karen at Rush Creek Sanctuary - BTKL Education Animal Rescue for inviting us and to my brother, Thomas for helping us.

🐴💜 PEPPER & REMY UPDATE — WHAT A DIFFERENCE LOVE CAN MAKE 💜🐴

The first 2 pictuers are before and the rest after.They are in a loving forever home.

We love sharing updates with our Rush Creek Sanctuary family, especially when we can look back at where one of our rescues started and see just how far they have come.

When Pepper and Remy came to us in January, Pepper was in terrible condition. Seeing her then was heartbreaking. She needed time, proper nutrition, veterinary care, patience, and most of all, she needed to know that she was finally safe.

Today, looking at her almost brings tears to our eyes. ❤️

Pepper is healthy, beautiful, happy, and thriving. Her body has changed, but even more importantly, so has her spirit. She knows she is loved. She knows where her next meal is coming from. She can simply be a horse again, surrounded by people who care about her and her sweet Remy.

This is why we rescue.

Sometimes healing doesn't happen overnight. It happens one meal, one gentle touch, one day of safety, and one little step at a time. Then one day you look at the horse standing in front of you and can hardly believe she is the same horse who arrived months before.

Pepper, you fought for this life, sweet girl, and look at you now. 🐴❤️

Thank you to everyone who supports Rush Creek Sanctuary and makes transformations like Pepper's possible. Every donation, every volunteer hour, every prayer, and every person who shares our story becomes part of their journey.

Healing Veterans. Saving Horses. Changing Lives. 💜💚

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