Our Core Values

STONE GABLES ESTATE

Our Mission Statement


Stone Gables Estate is a biblical faith-based ministry/business. Our mission is to donate 100% of net profits to aid abandoned children worldwide.

As stewards of Stone Gables Estate, we strive to honor God in all we do in the preservation, restoration, and repurposing of Pennsylvania’s architectural treasures as we share them with the world. ALL are welcome.

Stone Gables Estate is a biblical faith-based ministry/business. Our mission is to donate 100% of net profits to aid abandoned children worldwide.

As stewards of Stone Gables Estate, we strive to honor God in all we do in the preservation, restoration, and repurposing of Pennsylvania’s architectural treasures as we share them with the world. ALL are welcome.

STONE GABLES ESTATE

Our Core Values


STONE GABLES ESTATE

Our Core Values


Family:

We value the individuals, families, staff, and guests of Ironstone Ranch and The Star Barn Village recognizing them as the building blocks of success for our business, the community, and our world. We embrace God-honoring events that seek to build the family. We respect each individual as a member of our global community, as created in the image and likeness of God, and we will not tolerate discrimination against any one person. We provide marriage-related services as ordained by God's Word, the Holy Bible, that are consistent with the written truth that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. 


Humility:

We recognize that each associate, vendor, and guest plays an integral role in the overall success of Ironstone Ranch and The Star Barn Village. 


Servant Leadership:

Every staff leader at Ironstone Ranch and The Star Barn Village is commissioned to nurture, lead, and develop the potential of those associates and valued guests which they have the opportunity to serve.

Quality:

Ironstone Ranch and The Star Barn Village strive to deliver the highest quality, result, service,

and product to our esteemed vendors and guests. We endeavor to create a memorable experience. 


Profitability:

We have both the privilege and responsibility to produce profits that are shared worldwide to impact needy children at home and abroad. "Events with a Purpose." 


Integrity:

The moral and ethical principles derived from God's heart and His Word can never be compromised in any way at Ironstone Ranch and The Star Barn Village. The value of integrity must be lived out in both personal and corporate life. 

Answers to Some of the Most-Asked Questions About Stone Gables Estate and The Star Barn Village

Answers to Some of the Most-Asked Questions About Stone Gables Estate and The Star Barn Village

  • What makes up Stone Gables Estate?

    Stone Gables Estate is over 275 acres in size and is in West Donegal Township, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is comprised of rolling woodlands, fields, ponds, and a stream. The Star Barn Village, Ironstone Ranch, Barns of Belmont, National Christmas Center, Harrisburg, Lincoln & Lancaster Railroad, Klein Chocolate family mansion, Herr’s Mill Covered Bridge, and more make up this unique Lancaster County treasure.


  • Who owns Stone Gables Estate?

    The owners, or as they like to be called, “Stewards” of Stone Gables Estate, are David and Tierney Abel. The Abel’s believe that the property belongs to God and it is their watch to ensure that it is always used to bring Him all honor, all glory, and all praise. The Abel’s have 17 children, 12 adopted from around the world. Their family represents the United Nations under one roof. The countries of Thailand, Vietnam, China, Korea, Albania, Haiti, Nigeria, Bolivia, and Korea are all represented in their family.

No public funds, no state grants or federal monies, or donations were accepted or used for the total purchase, move, and restoration of The Star Barn Village and all the historic structures at Stone Gables Estate. One hundred percent (100%) was paid for by David Abel in his efforts to preserve the beloved architectural structures in Pennsylvania.


We believe that all people have the free will right to have a set of beliefs that they have faith in and to live them out without forcing others to participate in those belief events that are in direct opposition to the core faith belief tenets of the other. Our nation's founding fathers knew that there would be differences in faith beliefs, so they wrote into the Constitution of the United States the First Amendment which fully protects the free exercise of one's faith beliefs without imposing that on another. We are a nation founded on religious freedom, not freedom from religion. We are one nation under God, not over God. We pray that here in Lancaster County, in the state of Pennsylvania, we can be a model for the country and the world, welcoming all without discrimination, and respecting the differences in each person's beliefs and the way they live them out. Supporting each other's businesses in Lancaster County, and the state of Pennsylvania, without discrimination, is a model the world needs.


We believe that all the world's 7.7 billion human beings were created in the image and likeness of God and we will not tolerate discrimination nor have we allowed it against any one person. We do not label people with titles or letters because all people are welcome to our public events, to work at our businesses, and stay at our lodging accommodations. In 43 years of business, with over 600 associates, we have never discriminated against anyone.

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