About Us

Acres Of Hope America, Inc. is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian Agrarian and ural Ministry.

Our agrarian-based Ministry Mission is to establish a Working Farm Outreach and Learning Center to educate, motivate and empower the Christian faith community to take a stewardship leadership role in helping to grow sustainable living biblical families, small farm stewardship entrepreneurs, local ecologically grown community food systems, revitalized rural communities, and more knowledgeable and involved food consumers.

· Establish a Working Farm Outreach and Learning Center growing ecologically farmed local food, and producing and conducting Creation-Care, Farming and Food Stewardship Learning Programs for local Christian churches.

· To originate, develop and manage the Greater Chattanooga Local Food Network to serve as a Community Food System in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution and consumption are integrated to enhance the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Chattanooga, TN and surrounding communities in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee within a 75-100 mile radius.

· Recruit, train and support small-scale farmers to be economically viable and ecologically sound biblical agrarian stewards and entrepreneurs

· Provide “Biblical Family Sustainable Living” and “Homesteading” courses and resources

· “On Farm” youth, family and consumer group educational and hands-on farming and food production learning adventures

STATEMENT OF FAITH

WE BELIEVE that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in power and glory; that this triune God created all, upholds all, and governs all.

WE BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER, an infinite, personal Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power and love; that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men; that He hears and answers prayer; that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.

WE BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, God's only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teachings, His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal, visible return to earth.

WE BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, who came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify and empower in ministry all who believe in Christ. We believe the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that He is an abiding Helper, Teacher and Guide. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and in the exercise of all biblical gifts of the Spirit as reflected through the fruit of that same Spirit.

WE BELIEVE that all people are by nature separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all, apart from works, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.

WE BELIEVE that the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ's unconditional (agapé) love, which is greater than any differences we possess, and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians.

WE BELIEVE that all the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, fully inspired without error in the original manuscripts, and the infallible rule of faith and practice.

WE BELIEVE in the personal, visible return of Jesus Christ to the earth and the establishment of His Kingdom; the resurrection of the body; the final judgment and eternal blessing of the righteous and endless suffering for the wicked.

Acres Of Hope America Inc. is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian ministry incorporated and registered in the state of Georgia. Please Note: Acres Of Hope America operates as a nonprofit religious charitable organization but has not yet received Federal Tax Exempt Charitable (501) (C3) status.