Investigative journalism begins with the famous 5 W’s. 

So Does Our Mission Statement.

 

 

WHO?  HavenRest Farm is part of a larger Christian organization, Pisgah Home Movement, Inc.

We are a non-profit religious corporation, registered in, and recognized by The State of Tennessee, USA.

 

WHEN?  In 1896, a medical doctor from Denver, Colorado, founded Pisgah Home Movement. His name was Finis E. Yoakum, and his original headquarters was known as Pisgah Home, located on Echo Street, in Highland Park, the first suburb of Los Angeles, California. About 1922, the parent organization was moved to the mountains in San Bernardino County, California. After a devastating fire in 1943, the organization moved for the final time to the Sequatchie Valley, in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, our current home.

 

WHAT?  A greater vision for HavenRest Farm was visited upon members of the Board of Directors in the winter of 1993, at a special prayer and board meeting at the farm. The name A Haven of Rest was created (And later shortened to HavenRest); the farm/retreat was re-dedicated to serve God's ever-evolving purpose and master plan.

 

WHERE?  HavenRest Farm is located about 2 miles southeast of Pikeville, Tennessee, at 326 Cooper Lane (Intersecting State Highway 30 E). The farm encompasses nearly 450 acres of pasture-land, crop-land, and forest. This is the famous Sequatchie Valley, utilized by forces of both the Union and Confederacy, in American Civil War history.

 

WHY?  In our dedication to the Lord, we hope only to fulfill His will, and reap His divine pleasure. 
   In so-doing we seek:
      Primarily to act as a physical sanctuary for meditation, inner healing, counsel, relaxation, and spiritual renewal for Christians, and their families. At HavenRest Farm the retreatants will experience an environment similar to how most Americans lived their entire lives a century ago, far from the cities' lights, pollution and congestion--out in the country, in the atmosphere of a working farm. There is NO formal activity structuring imposed. Our farm/retreat guests may decide exactly what their individual pace should be.

 

      Secondarily, we serve as a rural retreat location for Christian groups needing a place to do church planning, business seminars, conferences, charity events, and for the younger, or rugged, outdoors-minded Christian individuals, a great camp-out site with lots of hiking trails.

 

“Come Away” to HavenRest Farm; be alone with God, in His nature.

 

 

 

The Directors of Pisgah Home Movement / HavenRest Farm