Jay & KC Ashbaugh

Oak Rise Houseparents

Jay and KC were both born and raised in Napoleon, Ohio.  Jay lived at Fort Benning while serving in the Army, but besides that they both lived in Napoleon for their whole lives before coming to serve at the Ranch.  They have a son named Alaric who’s married to Kayla, and they live in Austin, Texas along with their dog, Leonard.  They also have a daughter named Dalayna who attends Cedarville University.

Jay was in the Army Ranger Battalion for four years after high school and then came home to work construction while taking college classes.  Before moving to the Ranch he worked as a tech on the Ohio Turnpike.  KC went to nursing school after high school and worked as an LPN for the next 23 years.

They started looking into houseparenting ten years ago, and Wears Valley Ranch kept coming on their radar.  God has prepared and equipped them over the last ten years for this season of their lives.  In 2021 they felt God nudge them to fill out the houseparent application for the Ranch.  They obeyed thinking that if God wanted them at the Ranch, He would make it happen, and He did!

Both Jay and KC love to be outside enjoying God’s creation and moving the healthy bodies God has given them—walking, running, hiking, biking.  They hope to get the boys at Oak Rise out to enjoy these things as well.  God has been teaching them patience, grace, love, understanding, mercy, and true JOY working with the kids at the Ranch. He has shown them how He can use and shape them in any way He desires if they trust Him and are obedient to His calling.

Jay and KC are so thankful that the Lord has called them to Wears Valley Ranch, and they are humbled that He is allowing them to care for His children!