The Montgomery Family: Nate, Drew, Amelia, Lucy, Melanie & Steve
Our journey as a family started in campus ministry at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA. In ministry to college students, we offered ourselves, our home and our pursuit of God, as the tools to connect others with God and what He is doing in the world. After 13 years of sharing life with students in a variety of ways (person to person, in the classroom, on a ropes course, through fraternity parties, etc...), we moved to a farm. Rooted in a belief that God created all humans in His image and we experience that by caring for this world as He does, our farm invites everyone to explore, discover, and understand more about themselves, others, God, and His creation.
We believe that life is a laboratory for meeting God, knowing the redemption of Jesus, and learning to be led by the constant and present voice of the Holy Spirit. We also believe that the fast-paced world around us avoids and therefore forgets how to recognize God in this life. Farming, because it is "rooted" in the creation of food, caring for the land, and doing so in a hands-on manner, enables us to see beyond the blur of our fast world and into a land where animals "talk", winter changes to spring, grass grows on bare soil, and God's people are renewed. We aren't in the farmer development business. Our work is to inspire, enable, and encourage people through seeing with their eyes, hearing with their ears, understanding with their hearts, and choosing to make changes when God meets them, Jesus heals them, and the Spirit leads them further into His world.
We believe that life is a laboratory for meeting God, knowing the redemption of Jesus, and learning to be led by the constant and present voice of the Holy Spirit. We also believe that the fast-paced world around us avoids and therefore forgets how to recognize God in this life. Farming, because it is "rooted" in the creation of food, caring for the land, and doing so in a hands-on manner, enables us to see beyond the blur of our fast world and into a land where animals "talk", winter changes to spring, grass grows on bare soil, and God's people are renewed. We aren't in the farmer development business. Our work is to inspire, enable, and encourage people through seeing with their eyes, hearing with their ears, understanding with their hearts, and choosing to make changes when God meets them, Jesus heals them, and the Spirit leads them further into His world.