www.NazarethFarm.org
Take me home, country roads, to the place I belong… you know the rest. Down a holler in rural West Virginia, you’ll find Nazareth Farm. Founded in 1979, Nazareth Farm transforms lives through a two-fold mission: to provide home repair in our Appalachian community through service retreats. In a nutshell, high school and college-aged students come to the Farm, a week at a time, to perform service and outreach. They spend their days working (hard) alongside our staff and homeowners performing various repairs and their evenings in spiritual retreat and reflection. There are no cell phones at the Farm, the accommodations are rustic, and volunteers are invited to strip away the noise from their daily lives to be present. As the home repair projects take shape and transform the lives of our homeowners, the week transforms the lives of our volunteers. Our retreats are currently in a Covid pause, but our service continues through the five AWESOME full-time staff members that reside at the Farm year-round.
I am blessed to work part-time and remotely on development and outreach projects for Nazareth Farm. I spent one of my birthdays there installing a tin roof – on a hot summer day – and I believe it was quite possibly my best birthday ever! Their mission speaks to my heart and the people at the Farm, on the Board, and in our community continue to transform my life.
Learn more about this OWL, its amazing mission, and some of our projects on the website: www.NazarethFarm.org.
Even Grogu knows West Virginia is the place to be!