Chance farm five miles west of Centralia, Missouri for half its valuation, including machinery, cattle, and dairy.

Babcock was a minister with "long experience, true and tried..." Herschel Turner, a successful Missouri farmer, agreed to manage the farm which was envisioned as a major industry on campus.

Leaders of the churches were asked to visit every Adventist home in Missouri in an effort to meet the goal.

After the program, Principal Hartman took the controls of a caterpillar tractor and Missouri Conference President Hutches guided the plow.

Farm manager Herschel Turner drove a team of Missouri mules with veteran minister and Bible teacher C. M. Babcock holding another plow.

[5] The school finished a red brick administration building with space for classrooms and dedicated it to A.

On the campus, the conference added a two-room elementary school in 1972, a cafeteria and kitchen in 1973, and a church in 1975.

Through the seventies, the school supplied student employment via the SS Plastics and the Dakota Bake 'n Serve frozen dough plant.

[5] Until December 2014, the school maintained a workplace called Sunnydale-Goss Industries, where students made hospital-grade oxygen tents and wooden-handled brushes.