Church Leaders Relaxation | Christian Ministry Restoration

Share The Vision

We have been called by God to set up a home, where church leaders and those in full time Christian ministry can come and stay, relax and be refreshed. We don't want to use the word retreat, as we'll be offering a home where they can come to rest, be restored and refreshed for the work that they have been called to do.

We've spent the last 5+ years working for a christian arts charity, NGM (New Generation Music). During our time at NGM, we came into contact with many church leaders (and leaders of para-church organisations) who were on the verge of being totally burnt out, often not having close friends to talk with, and it's these people that we feel called to serve. We have a vision of the house being a place of peace and laughter (we believe that laughter is a great medicine), with opportunities for them to talk and pray with us if they wish.

Why

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Share The Journey

Our call was a gradual process, looking back we can see God planting seeds over many years, both through prophetic words and experiences. Early in 2018, we received a number of challenges and prophetic words and we had got to the point where we were seeking final confirmation. At this point, no one within NGM had any idea of the journey that we were on. Then in June 2018, the interns at NGM were set a challenge to pray for the NGM senior staff and ask God for prophetic words. Micah was asked to pray for us and we received from him a written prophetic word about how God hadn't finished with us yet, that we weren't ready for retirement and that God had something fresh for us to do, something that he'd been preparing us for. He went on to say that he saw a picture of 7 camels bringing all the provision that we needed.

We shared our calling with the rest of the ngm leadership shortly afterwards, but said that we wanted to give them plenty of notice and that we also wanted to see out our commitment to the Spiritual Health Weekends that we helped to run in January/February each year, so we wouldn't leave until the end of February 2019. Since sharing the vision, God has slowly been revealing more to us, including that we should be based in the Chepstow area, being on the border of England and Wales is a significant position, close to the M4 and within 2 hours drive of London, the Midlands, the South West and mid-Wales. It provides us with easy access to our families, friends and is also close to 3 of our trustees.

Since the beginning of March, we've been living in Kidderminster with our daughter and 5 year old grandson. The first month was mainly sleeping, learning to relax and being physically and mentally restored. We commissioned a couple of friends to design a logo and website, as though we don't have a property yet or the money to purchase one, we felt that we needed to take another step forward. We're about to start the process of becoming a charity, set up a bank account etc. but we now need to get a group of people who will stand with us in prayer.

Talk Camels

The story of how God used camels to encourage us in our faith journey.

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A Pray

We feel that we need a minimum of 5-6 bedrooms, with some land and in a peaceful location. Houses of this size in the Chepstow area are around £1 million! In addition, we will need to furnish it, possibly make some alterations and also have some capital to cover the first years running costs. Which leaves us in the position of needing somewhere between £1.25 - £1.5 million! We know that's an awful lot of money, but we believe that God wouldn’t have given us the vision, if he wasn’t going to provide. We’re believing for God to provide those 7 camels, full of the provision that Micah prophesied.

A Talk Money

We have always felt that we shouldn't make a specific charge for those coming to stay with us, as we don't want anyone to be excluded on the basis of their financial circumstances. We will let individuals/churches know the cost of staying, but will ask them to make a donation based on what they can afford, so hopefully some will pay more than the actual cost and that will help to subsidise those who wouldn't normally be able to come.

So if you, or someone you know is able to provide some or all the funds we need, then do please get in touch we'd love to talk to you. We're open to God providing the funds/house in any way, so if someone would rather make a property investment and then loan the house to us for a minimum of say 10 years, we’d be open to that.

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"We feel called to set up a home where church leaders can relax and be refreshed."

- Derek & Ruth Tiffany

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