Hesed Sanctuary is the culmination of a 20+ year journey with God. In this journey, He has been teaching us, through revelation in His Word, what His original design was for His family, His Church. Hesed Sanctuary is the vision that we believe God has given us to provide a place to experience living as the body of Christ - in His design. We are not living in the fullness of this vision yet, but we believe we are close! Hallelujah! Our Heavenly Father has been teaching and pruning us to live in oneness with Him and His Church. We believe living in oneness with God and His church, is the greatest testimony of His Good News.

History

We started getting more vivid dreams, visions and revelation about God's original design for His church, in 2011. We believe the Lord was starting to give us pictures and words as to what living as the body of Christ looks like today, in our culture. We see the body of Christ living, communing, working, playing and ministering daily, similar to what we read about in the Holy Bible. We see it as some people living sustainably together on a plot of land while others who live near in the community, come to the land to connect/commune daily. As we mature in the Lord, we share and show His love with the community around us. Fast forward to 2021, we believe we heard God say it was time to "Go On Mission". We also felt the Lord saying to go find where the church is functioning together, daily. We believe He led us to YWAM to start this journey. We quit our jobs in 2022 and joined a YWAM Discipleship Training School in Nashville, Tennessee. This was the beginning of the Lord uprooting everything. After 6 months with YWAM, including 2 months in Vietnam, we found ourselves back home in Indiana in the beginning of 2023. As we prayed, we kept hearing that we were to start working on the vision of living as the body of Christ, daily. We believe the Lord gave us the name Hesed Sanctuary. The word hesed is a Hebrew word that can be summed up as the covenant, faithfulness, grace, and loving-kindness of God. We see this is the love that God has between He and us as well as between those in His Church. We felt the word sanctuary was fitting as many of us, in the Church, are needing a place of healing, deliverance and rest before we can BE the Church as God designed. Toward the end of 2023, we felt the Lord calling us to halt the work on this vision and just seek His face. The mission was taking more of our affection than Him. During this season, we started hearing the Lord talk about YWAM again. We felt He was telling us to go serve with YWAM for a season, to learn how they live, work and play together as well and to practice the strategies He has been showing us. We also believe we heard the Lord say to sell our home in January of 2024. By the end of summer 2024, we had sold our house and moved to Adams, TN to serve on staff with YWAM. While serving with YWAM Nashville, we learned so much about ourselves, God, His Kingdom and living daily with the body of Christ. We learned some of what works well, what doesn’t work well and the in-between. One of the really fun experiences was living in a 5th wheel RV for a year. This wasn’t the initial plan, but the Lord knew what He was doing and provided us with our own home while on staff. We have said that our season on staff and the several months following, was the hardest and yet one of the most rewarding seasons of our lives. We are so thankful to our God and to the community we served and served with. While serving on staff with YWAM, we started hearing the word “Explore” toward the end of 2024. After much praying, we believe the Lord was leading us on to an adventurous season in 2025. This proved to be so true and one of the most epic seasons of our lives! In the midst of this exploration year, we began hearing of and seeing coffee ministries and connections. We believe the Lord was bringing us back to one of our earliest dreams, while dating, to open a coffee shop as a ministry. We believe He is saying to build a coffeehouse, as a catalyst to the bigger picture of Hesed Sanctuary, and call it “Hesed CoffeeHouse”.

Present...

As of the end of 2025, we have moved back to Indiana to live with our dear friends and brother and sister in Christ, Clint and Beth Myers. We shared the beginnings of the vision of the coffee house with them and, with excitement, they began helping us move forward. We are learning more and more to live by faith as we step into the uncharted waters (for us) of building a coffeehouse. If you would like to learn more about this current adventure, please click this link - Hesed CoffeeHouse.

Invitation

We'd love to invite you to join us in praying with us as we move forward in faith to see the Hesed Sanctuary vision come to a reality, starting with the Hesed CoffeeHouse. Please contact us if you feel led to regularly pray and receive our updates. Our first initiative is to raise $12,000 to build a coffee cart as our first step toward Hesed CoffeeHouse. We'd love to partner with you in any way the Lord leads.

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