About Us

The Riverbend Ranch Charity Carnival is the family project of the Eric Kjeldgaard

family. In 2007, desiring for their children to have a practical way to help those in need,

Eric and Lisa came up with the idea of the carnival to raise funds for orphans and widows

around the world. James 1:27 is the guiding verse for the carnival,

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans

and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”

Aside from raising money for worthwhile charities, the carnival desires to create a day of

Old Fashioned fun in a safe, God honoring environment.

A group of businessmen have joined together each year to match the funds raised by the carnival allowing the event to donate even more money.

In 2007, over $8000 was donated to Acres of Hope, an orphanage and relief organization working in Monrovia, Liberia.

In 2008, over $16,000 was donated to the Davis Family Educational Fund administered by Central Valley Presbyterian Church to help the newly widowed Heather Davis and her children.

The carnival wouldn’t be possible without the dedication and hard work of so many friends who give lots of time and energy to make the vision of the carnival possible!