2012 in Review

2012 is almost over and what a year it has been for Kat and me. We started the year getting serious about selling our house and finding a small farm. We found out in February that our house sold and we had 30 days to move. We had been looking for some property within 60 miles of Kansas City, MO but for some reason we kept finding property farther out. We found 30 acres we liked but the deal fell through but we ended up moving to that area anyway. We moved out of our house March 19th, purchased an RV and moved to the Lake of the Ozarks March 26th. We spent several months looking for property that spoke to us but no much happening. Then one day while driving around after church we by chance drove up to Stover MO and dropped by a place with 11 acres. At first it did not look promising but Kat encouraged me to walk down the hill and we almost instantly fell in love with it. 

We moved to the property exactly 2 months after we moved out of our house in Louisburg. During the past nine months we have built a barn, a chicken coop, built three hoop houses and fenced half an acre for the goats we will purchase in the spring. We now have two kittens, two ducks, two chickens, one guinea and one Anatolian puppy. We have done more of things we did not think we could do and enjoyed our journey. 

Here is a slide of our farm set to Chris Tomlin's "Amazing Grace".
We have been so blessed to have moved to central Missouri and despite missing our family and friends we know that God wants us to be here.

As 2012 begins I want to encourage you to step out and begin to make your dream come true. If you do not know what it is I wold be glad to help you discover it and then move toward making it real.

Merry Chrsitmas

Share this with your Pastor

This message is for every pastor, missionary or wounded warrior that might have the opportunity to read it. I believe if you are reading this and you do not know who I am but my blog was shared with you by a friend then God is wanting you to read what I have written here.

 Let me share a little about who I am before I write what God wants me to. My name is Larry Clark and I own a small farm outside of Stover, MO. My wife, Kat, and I call it Restoration Farm because we believe God wants to use what we do here to restore lives, physically, emotionally, and/or spiritually. I have been ordained in the Association of Vineyard Churches and have gone through training called Vineyard Leadership Institute. I am not a professional counselor but I am a conduit of the Holy Spirit who is the one true Counselor.

What I believe God wants me to share in this post is that He already knows your secret. He loves you enough to place this message before you before your secret surfaces and you receive a more severe discipline. You see if you are a pastor, a missionary or a wounded warrior and you are chained by a life controlling habit (which almost always leads to sin) then He wants you to know He loves you and there is hope of breaking the chains.

Pride, Pornography, Greed, Self-reliance, Anger, Fear, Lust, Lying, Stealing, Gossip, Workaholic, lack of concern for your flock and other addictions are just a some of the things He already knows some of you have.

The reason for this post and for you reading it is: God already knows our sin, He loves us anyway, and He wants to forgive us, reconcile with us and restore us. The question is this: "will we respond before He has to discipline us?"

What is the next step? Find a safe place where Restoration not Judgement is the goal.

Kat and I believe Restoration Farm is such a place and we are here to serve you and we make the following promise we will do what we do best and let the Holy Spirit do the counseling.

For more information call, email or visit us.

Best regards

Larry
13269 Glencreek Drive
Stover, MO 65078
573 789 1224
lnclark1950@gmail.com

Blue Bottle Trail

We will be building several trails at Restoration Farm for our visitors to walk. This one is called the Blue Bottle Trail since we used blue bottles tomark the way.