In June of last year God spoke this simple yet profound message to us: “You have no time to waste.” Upon hearing that, we began praying for God to help us, for we could do nothing without His supernatural help. We can’t make this vision happen—it is much too large. We are completely dependent on God and we wouldn’t have it any other way! We continue to be amazed at how quickly God is working. In just a year’s time God has already provided the money to purchase/build three ministry houses in addition to the one already on the farm. And so we want to share with you in a little more detail what life is currently like on Our Father’s Farm and also what we believe the Lord would have us do this summer.

Currently, we are training a team of seven ladies to minister in the area of inner healing. Monday and Thursdays are the days we pray for those in need of inner healing. The results have been quite remarkable. God is REALLY healing them—for real! Tuesday and Friday are what we call our “God days” because we meet together to pray, which is our lifeline. Wednesday afternoons I mentor a group of young people from the International House of Prayer who are in a class called Communities of Compassion. Each Sunday morning a group gathers in our home to worship, pray and study. Afterwards, we have lunch and a time of fellowship with lots of laughter. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful family who truly loves and esteems each other. Danny and I are some of the richest people on this planet!

Joshua Shonio works on the farm and gives leadership to our Food ministry and serves in a variety of ways. He picks up and delivers the donated groceries six days a week from Whole Foods and Price Chopper. This is our fourteenth year of providing groceries and other necessities to families in need. Shortly after moving to Holden, we heard about a lady in town who gave clothing to people in need, but she had very little food to give away. We had extra so we offered to share with her. Needless to say, she was overjoyed. Twice a week Joshua takes food to her “shop”. One day when he was delivering the food to them a lady came into the place looking for help. Among the food that Josh brought was three cans of pudding (gallon size). The lady was suddenly ecstatic and exclaimed, “How did you know?” Joshua was clueless until she turned to face him and said, “I don’t have a tooth in my mouth and was wondering what I was going to eat!” Before we even ask…God provides.

Dave Butterfield, Kevin Estabrook and Fred Shoup are currently working to finish the basements of The Father’s House (home for children in need of an adoptive family) and The Mercy House (a place of respite for women and children with serious physical or emotional needs). These guys are truly amazing—they have voluntarily chosen to work for a kingdom that cannot be seen and they do so with joyful, abandoned hearts.

I thank God for Liana Estabrook who takes care of the administrative chores plus other needs that arise. Our beautiful and devoted Sarah Butterfield is in charge of our horses and also leads worship (as does Melissa Rhea) in our church services and our ministry prayer times. Bev Butterfield does a fantastic job overseeing Heart Publishing, our book and teaching resource center. She also helps Sarah with the horses and the inner healing ministry.

We are so excited to have Dana Shonio leading and organizing our children’s church. Pamela Fry leads the intercessory group and also gives oversight to the inner healing team. Ginny Warren leads the physical healing ministry. All three of these ladies are a gift from God and have such beautiful hearts. We thank God for them.

Shea Mattox, Melissa Rhea, Barbara Shoup and Sarah Butterfield are working towards opening our preschool this fall. Barbara brings with her many years of experience teaching early childhood education. Her expert input will help make our preschool an excellent place for these precious souls. The school will serve children ages 3-5 and will be open five days a week, year round. We believe this will be one of our greatest avenues for reaching our community with the Father’s love. (We will share in more detail in an upcoming newsletter.) Please join us in prayer for this ministry and its needs.

Celeste Garcia and her team have been working diligently to plan, organize and prepare for planting a sizeable garden this spring/summer. The food will be used to help provide for our community and staff, for those in need and also as an income producer. It will be grown without the use of chemical pesticides or fertilizers. Celeste has put countless hours into the venture to make it not only productive but also inviting. We believe it will be a place where people can walk and talk with God while surrounded by life, color and beauty.

This summer we will offer a day camp for primarily children who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford to go. Melissa Rhea, Liana Estabrook and myself will be leading this outreach. We are so looking forward to this endeavor and would appreciate your prayers on our behalf. For more information or to volunteer, please email me at: harvesthome@juno.com.

Lord willing, we are planning to host a conference on the Father’s Heart for His Children here in Kansas City this summer. We will send out more information on this as the details are confirmed.

Last, but certainly not least—through an amazing series of events we have been offered a new 100 x 100 square foot steel building (including doors and windows) for $60,000, which is a great price. At first we didn’t even consider purchasing it, but it just kept coming back to us, so to speak. So we began asking God if this was something that we should do. After several weeks, I had one of those moments that best can be described as the “light bulb coming on”. I could “see” the building on the hilltop serving as our ministry center along with some housing for women and children. My first thought was, “How brilliant!” We realized that this building was the answer to our prayers—it was the Healing Ministry Center that we had dreamed of and prayed for. Because of the buildings height, we can build two stories, which will double the square footage. Instead of building individual houses, we will be able to build: The Eagle’s Nest—a home for single moms and children in crisis; The Lookout—a home for pregnant teens; The Upper Room—a training/mentoring program for interns, which will save a lot of money! God’s ways are certainly higher and better than ours and we are so grateful that we are on His team doing His will.

Danny and I are truly amazed with God—He has truly picked up the pace. It seems that we can’t finish one project without another knocking on the door. But then He told us that we didn’t have any time to waste. As you might know, we live by faith and do what we do by faith. We would ask you to pray and ask God if you are to help us purchase this building. If so, please write building in the memo of your check or you can donate online at: www.harvesthome.org under the bookstore button. As always, your gifts are tax deductible and greatly appreciated. Danny and I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you. May He cause His face to shine on you and be gracious to you. May the LORD lift up His countenance on you and give you peace.

For His Glory Alone,
Danny and Rhonda