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David and Dolores just came down from our 205 acres of arizona mountains. We have our own 6000′ mountain top, the highest for miles, with a prayer garden at the top, a huge white cross lit up 24hrs a day, and the most spectacular, pristine 360 degree view of the valleys around. The presence of God is so tangible up there that no one who goes up there comes back down the same. Most weep or laugh for hours after the experience up there alone with the Master.

Our 60 bed discipleship facility and local church is now completely funded by the Master Himself and will begin building soon.

Today (3/19/09) Dolly (Dolores) and David went up to see the first pastoral House completely built. We still have painting and carpet to do. We are glorifying the Lord!
Let him who glories, glory in the Lord! We (the 3 of us- Holy Spirit, Dave and Dolly) paid off the entire 205 acres and the house completely in cash a few months ago.

The entire facility is off the grid, using geo-thermal, wind and solar for power. Our own wells (we have four volunteer springs where water bubbles up out of the ground - HIGHLY unusual for Arizona)

We give the Lord EVERYTHING, and He gives us EVERYTHING!

What a way to live!

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we went and priced the first of many pastoral quarters to b on the mountain!

Hallelujah!!!!

We went down to the title company and paid off the property the other day to get it out of the hands of the Lady who owned the paper so we can begin to build! she would not let us rezone for the Boys home up there.

Despite the fact that the air temperature gets down as low as 12° F during the winter, and above 100° F during the summer here in the mountains of Arizona, the soil temperature 10-feet below the surface remains at a near constant 55-65° F all year.

When air is slowly drawn using a small fan through plastic pipes buried at this depth, it will be PRE-cooled during summer and PRE-heated during winter, providing natural climate control with much less energy than conventional heating and cooling.

Earth Tubes are reported not to work well in where humidity averages 90% or more, so they should work well here in the high desert mountains of Arizona.

A 220-foot long tube of 8″ diameter SDR-35 PVC pipe is assembled above a 10-foot deep trench. http://www.dpcpipe.com/sdr35.htm http://www.dpcpipe.com/airduct.htm
This trench in the picture was dug using a Takeuchi TB135 Excavator supplied by Hertz Equipment Rental.

In order to avoid the dangerous work of entering this deep trench, the tube is lowered slowly using ropes attached to metal fence posts every 4-feet along the complete length of the tubes.

A total of three 220-foot long tubes were lowered within the 10-foot deep trench, providing a total length of 660-feetof earth tubes to be studied at the center.

As the day approaches to begin building our prayer and discipleship center on the mountain, we have begun mapping out where things go. Our existing roads on the mountain were carved in during the first weeks before beginning the purchase of this mountain property, 205 acres of pristine, quiet - overlooking a dreamy valley.
Because the roads were never really used in the past, as these were basically ranch roads and not used for vehicles on any major scale

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This was our first night on the mountain.
Spent inside the Ford Explorer. We laid down the seats and slept in sleeping bags.
There was something really wonderful about claiming the mountain for Jesus and knowing that lives would be changed in this place