Springhaven Croft
Springhaven Croft is Dan and Jeanette’s minifarm. It is named for the springs that come up out of the ground and make the stream (beside which the alpaca are grazing) that runs through the back field and for the peace and safety they work to maintain.
It is the farm on which Jeanette spent much of her childhood, and where Fawn spent a lot of time visiting her grandparents (sometimes not so much with permission as with climbing a tree to sneak over the fence when she was supposed to be doing something else.) We have a lot of happy memories there – extended family cookouts, games of hide and seek, picking ripe food off the extensive gardens and eating it as we play. Visiting Grandpa’s cows in the fields. Massive all-family waterfights using buckets refreshed in the small ponds all over that Grandpa had made out of old bathtubs. (Believe me, you know you’ve been got when you get a bucket of cold springwater thrown on you!)
Now those field’s have Dan and Jeanette’s alpaca, and they are still great to walk in, looking in the stream to see what’s there now. (Currently, there is a large snapping turtle. There have been muskrats, fish, snakes, crawfish, herons.) Tasting the watercress that overgrows the stream. Watching the place where the water bubbles right up out of the ground.
Jeanette maintains a facebook page about the farm. Visit it at https://www.facebook.com/Springhaven-Croft-1570808803143914.
Springhaven Fellowship
Springhaven Fellowship is the name of the house church that meets in their home. It is a part of the Simple Church Network of house churches.
In Springhaven Fellowship, we study the Bible together. We meet those in our immediate environment (and some farther away, though the wonders of the internet.) We each study on our own to keep our relationship with God strong, and we study and compare notes together to keep each other strong and hold up each other’s relationships.
We are able to move quickly to meet immediate needs in our community as we become aware of them, as our resources as a small group allow. We’ve bought groceries, diapers, or medication as needed. Dan’s done car repairs; we’ve helped with home repairs, occasionally we’ve been able to help with a bill. We’ve bought clothes for a family who just had a house fire. We’ve even given people a spare room for a while, while they get back on their feet or have a necessary repair done on their home. We do community outreach projects, like annual Christmas stockings for county foster children. We are the hands of God in the world, and we try to be useful ones.
We have a facebook page also, using the name of the city we are in for visibility. You can visit that at https://www.facebook.com/SimpleChurchatHomeMountVernon.