The Heart of Heaven Homestead

Welcome to The Heart of Heaven Homestead. We are Javier and Christine, and this is the place where our faith, our family, and a much bigger dream have begun to take root.

For years, we have carried a vision of what we affectionately call our 100-acre dream: a large piece of land where we could grow food, raise animals, cultivate medicinal herbs, become more self-sufficient, and create a place where foster children could grow up surrounded by the beauty of God’s creation. A place our adult children will want to come back to. We imagined gardens and orchards, barns and pastures, herbs drying from the rafters, animals in the fields, and plenty of room for a large and growing family. A place where the community would come to visit, stay the day or a weekend, and enjoy our farm as much as we do.

Someday, we may have those 100 acres.

But somewhere along the way, we realized something important: we didn’t need 100 acres to begin living the life God was calling us to build.

It would have been easy to keep waiting—waiting for more land, more money, more time, or the perfect circumstances. Instead, we decided to start where we were, with what we already had.

And so The Heart of Heaven Homestead began.

We learned to look at our little half acre piece of land differently. Instead of focusing on everything it couldn’t hold, we began asking what we could do with it. We raised animals. We grew what we could. We learned new skills, made mistakes, changed plans, and tried again. We started fostering. Christine’s years of working with herbs became part of the homestead through LillyBelle Apothecary, where plants from God’s creation are studied and prepared with care. Stories inspired by faith, family, animals, and the lessons found in everyday life became Rooted in Truth Books and Stories. Javier’s work and craftsmanship became another part of the larger life we were building together with Silver River Construction, and his hobby became Heritage coins and collectables.

None of it appeared overnight, and we are nowhere near finished.

Our days are often less picturesque than the word homestead might suggest. There are animals that need tending, projects that need finishing, dirty diapers and lots of animal poop. Meals to make, things that break, herbs and gardens to care for, work that pays the bills, and the unmistakable sound of tiny feet running through the middle of all of it.

But that is precisely what this homestead is.

It isn’t a finished property or a picture-perfect version of country life. It is a family learning to build a life with intention.

We believe God created the earth with extraordinary abundance and gave us the responsibility to care for it wisely. We believe there is value in knowing how to grow something, preserve something, make something, repair something, and care for the animals and people entrusted to us. We believe children learn important lessons when they see where food comes from, when they get dirt on their hands, when they help care for another living thing, and when they discover that worthwhile things often require patience and work.

Most importantly, we believe a home should be a place of faith, healing, learning, belonging, and unconditional love.

The 100 acres are still part of the dream. Maybe one day you will visit this website and discover that we finally found them.

Until then, we aren’t waiting for someday.

We are building with the land beneath our feet, using what is already in our hands, learning as we go, and trusting God with what comes next.

This is The Heart of Heaven Homestead—not the finished dream, but the place where we decided to begin.