The Campus Vision
Every renovation, building, and outdoor space will be evaluated by one question: does it help people minister to the Lord, live in healthy community, and be restored for faithful service?
The Existing Lodge
The existing lodge, built in 1993, includes approximately ten bedrooms and eleven bathrooms on roughly eleven acres. Its vaulted gathering spaces, stone fireplace, mountain setting, and guest capacity provide a strong foundation for the vision.
Before any major work begins, the property will undergo comprehensive due diligence and professional inspection — including structural systems, foundation, roof, HVAC, plumbing, electrical service, water and septic systems as applicable, fire and life safety, accessibility, appliances, drainage, and code requirements.
The renovation will preserve the character that makes the lodge welcoming while giving it a cohesive, durable, high-end mountain identity. The current design direction favors lighter natural wood siding and interior wood tones, balanced by a charcoal or dark bronze roof, warm metal finishes, stone, leather, natural textiles, and restrained lighting. The goal is not rustic excess, but a refined cabin environment that feels peaceful, substantial, and timeless.
Site Planning
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The heart of shared worship, conversation, and family life. The existing stone fireplace will be preserved and strengthened with a substantial reclaimed-wood mantle. Flexible seating lets the room move naturally between worship, teaching, prayer, and informal fellowship.
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Shared meals are not secondary to the ministry model. Breaking bread together creates space for stories, truth, laughter, correction, and relationship that cannot be manufactured in formal sessions. The kitchen will be renovated for both daily household use and larger hospitality.
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Bedrooms and bathrooms refreshed for comfort, privacy, durability, and ease of maintenance. Dedicated prayer rooms and quiet spaces within the lodge allow personal intercession to continue alongside communal life.
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A generous covered porch — with portions enclosed or seasonally protected where feasible — extends the usable life of the property through changing mountain weather. Room for reading, meals, counsel, and quiet conversation.
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Walking paths, contemplative seating, Scripture markers, and intentional plantings. An outdoor extension of the house of prayer, designed for sustained intercession and quiet encounter.
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Trails allow guests and intercessors to walk the land in worship and reflection. A gathering fire circle creates an informal setting for testimony, conversation, and prayer. Not attractions — extensions of the devotional life of the house.
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A covered, open-air structure for worship, prayer, teaching, and regional gatherings. The preliminary concept is approximately 40 by 60 feet, using timber and stone details that harmonize with the lodge, with optional seasonal enclosure panels.
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One building — not a collection of detached cabins — allowing the family to live on site without consuming guest capacity. Intended for the buildable left side of the property so existing parking and guest circulation are preserved.
Planning concept: Final size, placement, acoustics, utilities, accessibility, and weather protection for all new structures will be determined through survey, geotechnical review, engineering, zoning, and final architectural design. Renderings and dimensions on this page are conceptual.
On-Site Living
The family must be present to pray, welcome, cook, counsel, maintain, protect, and steward the life of the house. At the same time, separate residences will establish healthy privacy and boundaries so the main lodge remains available to guests and ministry.
The Invitation
A house like this is built in prayer long before it is built in timber and stone. If this vision stirs something in you, take it to the Lord and ask what part He would have you carry — whether that is standing with us in intercession, or helping provide what it will take to see it established.
