Phase One · The Living Land
Establish Serena House Farms, restore the soil, grow food, develop the orchard and food forest, serve the community, and build dependable farm revenue.
Serena House · A Way Station of Hope
Restoring hope. Rebuilding lives. Renewing futures.
Serena House is preparing to establish it's Way Station in Missouri: a peaceful place where displaced individuals and families can rest, heal, regroup, and move toward a stable, new beginning--surrounded by compassionate care, nourishing land, practical learning and incredible community.
Preparing for a responsible launch
Our foundation comes first
Good standing · Missouri registration · governance · verified giving
Nearly 3 acres
Home + farm workshop
Pond + open land
Our mission
A peaceful place to rest, rebuild, and begin again.
Sanctuary
Temporary refuge offered with dignity, compassion, and peace.
Restoration
Practical support that helps families move from crisis toward stability.
Renewal
Nourishing food, healing surroundings, useful skills, faith, and community.
The founder's heart
“We do not simply shelter people; we restore hope.”
Serena House began with a simple conviction: when the road disappears beneath someone’s feet—through fire, natural disaster, job loss, divorce, illness, or another crisis—they should not have to face the next step alone.
The Missouri vision begins responsibly: first establishing a productive farm that serves the community, builds local relationships, and creates a sustainable source of mission-aligned support. As the organization becomes ready, Serena House will add carefully governed services for displaced families.
“May all who enter leave knowing they are valued, they are capable, and they are never alone.” — The Serena House Covenant
Meet our founder
A calling shaped by lived experience.
Serena House was founded by Renee Mysliwiec, a mother, grandmother, mentor, wellness practitioner, homesteader, permaculture designer, and woman of faith. Renee understands how quickly a family’s sense of safety can disappear—and how deeply a peaceful home, nourishing food, a compassionate, listening ear, and practical guidance can help restore hope.
After establishing the original Serena House vision in Wyoming, Renee is now working with her daughter Danielle and a growing circle of family and community supporters to prepare Serena House of Missouri. Her long-term hope is to create a careful, replicable model for future Way Stations across America.
“This is more than a house. It is a promise that hope still exists, healing is possible, and every ending can become a new beginning.” — Renee Mysliwiec
The Missouri opportunity
A small homestead where service and stewardship can grow.
The current candidate is a two-bedroom home with a workshop, pond, open land, existing fruit and nut trees, two wells, and space for a thoughtful, phased farm plan. The property remains offered to Renee and Danielle at an agreed price of $99,000, but it has not yet been purchased.
≈ 3acres
2 + 1bedrooms + bath
1workshop
$99,000agreed purchase price
All photographs above show the actual candidate property. The property would be separately owned from the nonprofit, and any future nonprofit use would require a written, independently reviewed agreement. All proposed uses remain subject to purchase, due diligence, zoning, licensing, insurance, safety review, and approved operating plans.
A phased path to service
What Serena House is preparing to become
One mission, built carefully in phases so each promise is supported by people, policies, resources, and experience.
Phase One · Hope Market
Develop a responsible local outlet for produce, plants, herbs, honey, preserved foods, handcrafted goods, seeds, and educational resources as approvals allow.
Phase Two · The Academy
Offer practical community learning in permaculture gardening, preparedness, food preservation, homesteading, wellness, creativity, and self-reliance.
Phase Two · Healing & Renewal
Create peaceful outdoor spaces, mission-aligned wellness education, restorative activities, and compassionate community support.
Phase Three · The Way Station
Begin carefully governed, time-limited support for displaced families after capacity, referral standards, safeguards, insurance, staffing, and approvals are in place.
Future · Way Stations of Hope
Document what works, develop future leaders, and prepare a responsible blueprint for additional Serena House locations in other states.
Healing Center, midwifery, birth-center, emergency-shelter, lodging, and commercial activities are not represented as active Serena House services. Any such use would require separate legal authority, licensing, insurance, facility approval, qualified staffing, and written agreements.
The food forest initiative
The land will nourish the mission.
Serena House Farm is envisioned as a regenerative small farm where perennial food, herbs, pollinator habitat, beekeeping, soil restoration, and community education work together. The property already includes mature walnut and mulberry trees, raspberry plants, rich growing soil, a pond, and two wells.
Future plantings are planned to include apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, pawpaws, hazelnuts, pecans, medicinal and culinary herbs, native flowers, and layered tree guilds. Each planting will be guided by observation, soil testing, available labor, water, responsible budgets, and local growing conditions.
The property will provide:
- Fresh food and useful products for the local community
- Hands-on learning in regenerative growing and self-reliance
- Habitat for bees, butterflies, birds, and beneficial insects
- A long-term, mission-aligned source of earned farm revenue
Volunteer opportunities
Many hands can help hope take root.
Serena House is developing a thoughtful volunteer program for individuals, families, professionals, churches, civic groups, gardeners, craftspeople, and anyone who simply wants to help.
Garden and orchard teams
Come learn the way we garden using permaculture principles, while assisting us in building fruit tree guilds, hugelkultur beds, medicinal herb gardens, harvesting, preserving food, and caring for pollinator habitat.
Property preparation
Offer skilled help with painting, repairs, organizing, landscaping, accessibility planning, and preparing welcoming spaces.
Professional guidance
Attorneys, accountants, nonprofit leaders, insurance professionals, grant writers, counselors, educators, and agricultural mentors can strengthen the foundation.
Classes and mentoring
Future volunteers may share practical skills in permaculture gardening, water conservation methods, food preservation, preparedness, budgeting, employment readiness, creativity and self reliance.
Hope Market support
Help with harvesting, packaging, displays, customer service, community events, handcrafted products, and responsible market operations.
Prayer and community connections
Share Serena House with trusted people, offer letters of support, introduce potential partners, and pray for wisdom, provision, and those the mission will serve.
Volunteer sign-up is coming. Formal applications will open after Serena House adopts its volunteer policies, supervision standards, insurance requirements, and public contact method.
Our next steps
Preparing Serena House of Missouri responsibly.
The strongest version of Serena House begins with disciplined sequencing. This protects the mission, the property, future guests, donors, and the people doing the work.
- 1
Confirm Wyoming good standing
Bring the existing Serena House nonprofit corporation fully current and maintain a qualified Wyoming registered agent.
- 2
Update governance
Amend the articles for the expanded mission, adopt current bylaws and policies, and establish active, independent board oversight.
- 3
Register in Missouri
Qualify Serena House to operate in Missouri and complete any required charitable-solicitation registrations.
- 4
Seek federal recognition
Submit the appropriate IRS application for recognition under Section 501(c)(3) and state the tax status accurately while it is pending.
- 5
Open transparent giving
Publish the approved budget, receiving account, permitted uses, reporting practices, and verified giving links before accepting public contributions.
A possible future pathway
Exploring a certified TIAG Rural HUB
After Serena House establishes its independent legal, financial, safety, and operating foundation, it may explore TIAG Rural HUB certification focused on documented rural resilience, stewardship, learning, and community benefit.
No TIAG certification, endorsement, partnership, funding promise, governance role, or current professional engagement exists. Any future relationship would require a separate written agreement and would not make TIAG, Haven Permaculture, Jamon, or Rianna responsible for Serena House debts, operations, licensing, or fundraising.
You can help right now
Help us prepare the foundation.
Public contribution links will open only after Serena House confirms good standing, Missouri authority, governance, the receiving account, campaign budget, and tax-status language. Until then, supporters can share the vision, offer professional expertise, introduce community partners, provide letters of support, and join the future volunteer circle.
Trust matters
What supporters should know before giving.
Serena House was incorporated as a Wyoming public-benefit nonprofit corporation on December 18, 2020. Its current good standing and Missouri authority must be confirmed before fundraising launches.
The Trenton property is a candidate property intended for separate ownership by Renee and Danielle. Serena House Farms LLC will be a separate for-profit farm business. Any nonprofit use of the property will require a written, independently reviewed arrangement.
Serena House has an EIN but has not yet received IRS recognition under Section 501(c)(3). No contribution should be represented as tax-deductible unless and until the organization can lawfully make that statement.
This website does not collect card or bank information. Buttons open separately verified Stripe, PayPal, or Venmo pages operated by those providers.
Before launch, Serena House will publish who receives funds, the approved budget and permitted uses, processing fees, reporting practices, and the policy for unused or redirected funds.
Questions worth asking
Clear answers build lasting support.
These answers describe the current development stage. They should be updated as legal, financial, property, and program decisions become final.
Has a fundraising goal been established?
No public fundraising goal has been activated. Serena House will establish a board-approved nonprofit launch budget and publish the exact use of funds before contribution links are enabled.
Is Serena House already open?
Serena House is an existing Wyoming nonprofit corporation, but Serena House of Missouri is not yet operating as a shelter or licensed care program. The Missouri work is in its organizational and farm-establishment phase.
Are contributions tax-deductible?
Not at this time. Serena House has not yet received IRS recognition under Section 501(c)(3). The website will be updated if and when federal recognition is approved.
Who will own the property?
Renee and Danielle are exploring personal co-ownership of the property, supported by private seller financing. The farm business and nonprofit will remain separate, and any nonprofit use will be documented appropriately.
What happens if the property purchase does not close?
The nonprofit’s fundraising campaign will not be represented as purchasing the personally owned farm property. Its eventual budget will support board-approved charitable readiness and programs, with permitted uses published before launch.
How can someone help besides giving?
Once organizers publish verified contact details and a volunteer plan, supporters may be able to provide professional expertise, introductions, letters of support, materials, documented community-needs input, or carefully supervised work.
Planting seeds whose harvest may bless generations
Hope always has a home.
Explore the vision, share it with others, and help Serena House build a trustworthy foundation for generations of service.