If you go to Swiss L'Abri as a student or as a guest, one of the places you will frequent on a daily basis is called Farel House.  It is named after one of the Reformers Guillaume Farel (1489-1565). The photograph at the beginning of this section is of Farel House.  The top floor is one big open place with a fireplace to the near right as you enter the front door and a very special organ to the far right.  This area is for church services on Sunday morning and as a meeting place/lecture hall during the week.  The floor below is where students study.  It has tape recorders for the many talks by the Schaeffers and others on many subjects.  When this writer was there in 1978 you studied half a day and worked half a day.  The study time was here.

To transfer this concept of Farel House to Cybershelter we simply changed the names with a Christian heritage-type selection of those names.  Farel was important in the Christian heritage that the Schaeffers have taught. Thus you have Farel House.  The Schaeffers have in turn been important in our Christian heritage.  Therefore you have Schaeffer House. We have kept the name of Study Center for the place where resources are available. The top floor in Farel House is multi-functional. Sometimes it is a place of worship. Other times it is a place for discussions, lectures, seminars, and cultural nights. The top floor of Schaeffer House is also multi-functional. We have given those functions room names.  Sometimes it is a place for prayer. Thus you have the Prayer Room.  Other times you may have lectures, seminars, and cultural presentations done in e-mail/internet format. Thus you have Farel Room.  The main e-mail discussion list that Cybershelter.org presently has is called Cyber Chalet.  This chalet was transfered from what is actually Chalet Les Melezes at Swiss L'Abri.  So at the present time there isn't an e-mail discussion list that mirrors what we are calling Farel Room.  But there will be :-)

(To be continued)