The Prayer Cabin
A large overnight prayer closet, up on the mountain.
This is a vision, not a building — yet. The prayer cabin hasn't been built, and there's no booking to make. This page simply tells you what we see when we look up the mountain, and why it's the foundation under everything else we do.
The Vision
For years — long before Arkansas, long before the rescue and the food bank took their present shape — our family has carried a picture: a small cabin, up on the mountain above our place, where a person can go and be quiet.
Not a vacation rental. Not an attraction. A place to quiet yourself and rest in the beauty of God's creation — to hear Him speak, to sense His presence, to be around His animals and His hills with nothing buzzing, ringing, or asking. We've called it, only half joking, a large overnight prayer closet: a door you can close on the noise, for a night, with the Lord.
Why It Stands at the Center
Everything at The Oaks runs on activity — feed to haul, animals to tend, travelers to welcome. But the ministry was never only about doing. It is about a place where people can be still in God's creation, and the cabin is that conviction in its purest form. The food bank feeds animals so families stay together. The rescue gives creatures a second chance. The cabin would give people the same thing: room to breathe, and a God who meets them in the quiet.
There's a fittingness to it here, too. This old farmstead once sheltered traveling preachers, and its big room served as a community church. A place of prayer on this ground isn't a new idea. It's a returning one.
In God's Timing
The cabin comes after the foundations: the ministry formed and recognized, the food bank distributing, the rescue running, the rest stop open. When the Lord provides the means and the moment, we'll build it — simply, sturdily, and open-handedly. Until then we hold the vision the way we've held it for years: prayed over, talked over, and trusted to the same God who directed every step that brought us to this mountain.
“Be still, and know that I am God.”Psalm 46:10