The Farm
Building 1: The Main House
This would be the home that the farm director and his family live. This home would be a place for foster children who need temporary placement or are in PPC/Police Protective Custody. Weekly meetings and dinners would also occur here giving everyone working on the farm an opportunity to get together and communicate. This home will hopefully already be established on the farm when it is acquired. The other buildings, if not already established, will be built once the funds are there to complete the project.
Building 2: Permanency Home
This would be the home where youth that don’t have parents or are adopted by us would stay until they are eighteen and ready to go either to college or out on their own. Youth that live in this home would go to public schools during the school year. There will be a limit of six to eight beds in this home where permanent house parents will live with the youth. The main job of the parents will be to provide stable parenting and counseling for the youth. Each youth will have a case plan outlined that the house parents will use as a guideline. The home will have a kitchen where the house parents will be responsible for preparing meals for the youth.
Building 3: Temporary Home
This home will be for kids ages 7-16 who are “troubled”, “at-risk” or “runaways” and have been placed into our up to six month long but as short as one month long programs. Youth that live in this home would go to public schools during the school year. Permanent house parents will also reside in this home and perform the same functions as the permanency home. Each youth will have a case plan outlined that the house parents will use as a guideline. House parents, farm directors and youth’s parents will work together with the goal in mind of getting the child back into the home in a positive way in a reasonable amount of time.
Building 4: The Barn
The barn will perform typical barn functions. It will be used as a place of storage for farm equipment and also as a home for some of the animals. Educational activities will also take place here.
Building 5: Recreation Center and Chapel
This building would have a gym with a basketball court that would also be used as a chapel area. Many different activities could be included in the gym area such as a rock climbing wall, volleyball, and other sports activities. The gym would also be used a facility to hold community type functions as well such as where all of the parents of the kids housed on the farm come for a monthly celebration.
A refuge for the poor, a shelter from the storm, this is our God
He will wipe away your tears and return your wasted years, this is our God, Oh... this is our God. A Father to the orphan, a healer to the broken, this is our God, and he brings peace to our madness and comfort in our sadness, this is our God
this is the one we have waited for, Oh... this is our God A fountain for the thirsty, a lover for the lonely
This is our God, He brings glory to the humble and crowns for the faithful
This is our God
-By Chris Tomlin