At Ironwood, a Raven’s Story is what we call it when God provides in miraculous or strange ways. The term comes from 1 Kings 17:3–6, where God tells Elijah to hide by the Brook Cherith. There, God provides water from the brook and commands ravens to bring him bread and meat. You can expect that he would drink the water from the brook because it makes sense, but to receive meat and bread from ravens: totally unexpected! Sometimes God brings things our way in totally unexpected ways and when he does, we refer to it as a Raven’s Story!
4 Modulars + Bathroom Modular
Over the last 6 weeks God has given us over $300,000 worth of donations for specific projects. 5 modular buildings purchased delivered and funded for remodeling! 2 will become extra-large cabins that can hold about 20 teens or 10 adults comfortably. 2 will be combined into staff housing and the last one has 10 bathrooms and will be for the Barn, our largest meeting room on property capable of sitting over 300 campers. And that is just the start!
There is also the Tac Room by the horses! A room that will be enclosed and turned into a meeting room that can fit about 100. In the summer, this meeting room will serve the horsemanship campers as well as be a classroom for leadership live and a meeting room for the operations service for summer staff. In the fall and winter months we will have our worth-it meetings with all our staff each week! The addition of this meeting room solves a lot of conflicts that we are currently having, for example, current rooms are too small or having to share a meeting room and schedule conflicts.
The Tac Room
Plans have also been started to build 8 new extra large RV sites that will include a central laundry mat, a lounge and 3-4 tiny homes. Why do we need all that you ask? This will be a spot for long-term volunteers like the SOWERs. People who volunteer for months at a time! Usually, January through April, we are maxed out on volunteers with the space that we currently have. The tiny homes will be able to serve the volunteers that do not have a camper or RV.
1 Kings 17:3-6 – Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
The Barn
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