Our Mission
The Shepherd’s Tavern exists to encourage spiritual first-responders* to fulfill their calling to God’s mission by offering hospitality at our retreat center and farm; a place of rest, beauty, growth, and restoration.
*pastors, missionaries, Christian workers
our values
• Soul Care
• Hospitality to all
• Spiritual Direction and other spiritual disciplines
• Beauty in the common
• Experiential Education
• Restoration of soul and soil
HOW WE WILL SERVE
As an offering to our guests, we provide overnight accommodations in one of our cottages. We are positioned on 5 acres of a 26-acre farm where we are free to create, explore & develop. In this beautiful setting, we extend opportunities for spiritual renewal & direction, a variety of faith-based educational programs, agritourism (farm life) experiences, walking paths and trails around the property, a prayer labyrinth & way of the cross for personal or group use, meeting spaces for small groups or ministry teams & training times, and artwork to enhance the natural beauty of the farm.
Flowers, like humans, need different Environments to flourish.
Sometimes we forget that with our fellow human beings.
– A. Fryling
ABOUT
We have embraced two practices for many years: taking personal retreats of solitude and meditative reading of scripture called Lectio Divina.
The Retreat and Farm
Scenes of The Shepherd’s Tavern Retreat and Farm