| The ultimate and future goal of ArkHaven is to | | | | the local towns will be a critically needed ministry. |
| form “a Christian community of intentional | | | | |
| neighbors” to prepare a campus on a | | | | The name "ArkHaven" is in reference to the Ark |
| “green island of survival” for a coming | | | | of the Covenant and to Noah's Ark. Both of |
| financial depression (and some would say, the | | | | these Arks were covered with God's promise, |
| seven year tribulation?) indicated by world | | | | protection, and provision. Read the ArkHaven |
| economic trends, and prophetic voices, such as | | | | story. |
| David Wilkerson, Larry Burkett, and others. Our | | | | |
| purpose is to prepare places of equipping and | | | | “But realize this, that in the last days difficult |
| sending, not hunkering down to hide and survive. | | | | times will come.” — 2 Timothy 3:1 |
| This depression is in all probability going to happen | | | | "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but |
| BEFORE the seven year tribulation period begins. | | | | the simple keep going and suffer for it" |
| Keep in mind that our nation has suffered three | | | | —Proverbs 22:12 |
| wars on this continent, as well as a depression, a | | | | As fish are caught in a cruel net, as birds are |
| dust bowl, 9/11, and Katrina. To say any of | | | | taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil |
| these historical disasters won't or can't happen | | | | times that fall unexpectedly on them." |
| again in America is foolishness. | | | | —Ecclesiastes 9:12 |
| God is not calling all Christians into this kind of a | | | | "When the foundations are being destroyed, what |
| ministry, but God is telling all of us to prepare as | | | | can the righteous do" —Psalms 11:3 |
| He would have us prepare (physically, mentally, | | | | The Lord is certainly pressing His preparation into |
| and spiritually) for the coming economic meltdown. | | | | the hearts and minds of those who have an ear |
| A time will come in our beloved America when | | | | to hear. Are you one of them? |
| some will be called to the high calling of | | | | My vision is to form a community of "intentional |
| martyrdom, and others to the terrible task of | | | | neighbors" that will be totally self sufficient and |
| surviving so as to minister to those Christians | | | | able to operate outside the system when the |
| who were absolutely sure such things could not | | | | economy crashes. But one location will not be |
| happen to Christians in America, and to the lost | | | | nearly enough to meet the need. It would be ideal |
| who were also put to sleep by the system | | | | to be able to go into all the local communities and |
| keepers. To the point: we all must know what is | | | | set up tents that house a soup kitchen, medical |
| coming down and how God would have each of | | | | clinics, etc. |
| us be prepared for that time. Obedience entails | | | | Of course, we will want one of our tents to have |
| knowing His voice, and then obeying His | | | | ministry going on for many hours a day, praying |
| instructions. | | | | for all the needs and leading people to a salvation |
| One of the greatest mission fields of the future is | | | | knowledge of Jesus Christ. We will need to teach |
| going to be disaster relief. The church was | | | | people (from one of these tents) how to grow |
| magnificent the way it responded to the Hurricane | | | | things in their own neighborhoods so that they |
| Katrina disaster, and everyone, including the | | | | can make it through these rough times. So we |
| federal government and the secular media, took | | | | will most certainly start and finish as an |
| note of how much better the church can respond | | | | evangelistic, mercy ministry. |
| and get things done in such a situation. We can do | | | | We use such thoughts as self sufficient, frugal, |
| better than the government. We are here on this | | | | frugality, self-reliance, and sustainability to define |
| earth to be a light in darkness. After loving God, | | | | what ArkHaven is all about, but ArkHaven is |
| loving our neighbors is one of our main job | | | | Christ centered and therefore much bigger than |
| descriptions (not forgetting evangelism), and few | | | | what those words can convey. |
| things will be a greater demonstration of this than | | | | - CLICK HERE to hear Kenneth Uptegrove on |
| those who respond to help their neighbors in their | | | | archived radio talk shows he has been interviewed |
| worst times. Isaiah 58 makes our mandate clear. | | | | on about this subject. |
| Soup kitchens and medical clinics set up in tents in | | | | |