6am30 min
Morning Prayer
Thirty minutes. Scripture, silence, and one song. Coffee is already on.
Bigfork, Montana · open every day
The lights are on at five thirty.
A house of prayer with a kitchen, on a creek in Bigfork. Live worship every day, breakfast served all day, and the door is unlocked whether or not you know why you came.
Next gathering
02:55:32
Evening Prayer · 6pm today · everyone welcome
The walk in
Everybody who comes here crosses the same twenty yards.
Some people come for the huckleberry pancakes. Some come because it is six in the morning and they could not sleep. Some come because somebody died, or somebody left, or the diagnosis came back. It is the same door and the same coffee and nobody at the counter needs to know which one you are.
We do not have a greeter with a clipboard. We have a woodstove, a long table, and a room where somebody is always singing.
The creek runs behind the house all winter
The door is unlocked from five in the morning.
Longer than the kitchen is open, on purpose. If the coffee is off, the room is still warm and the lamp is still on.
Three times a day
every day, no exceptionsWe stop what we are doing and pray.
The kitchen keeps serving. The music keeps going. If you are eating, keep eating. But at six, at noon and at six, anyone who wants to gather at the front gathers at the front.
12pm20 min
Midday Prayer
Twenty minutes on your lunch break. Come in work boots. Nobody will look.
6pm45 min
Evening Prayer
Sung worship, open prayer, and anyone who wants prayer gets prayed for.
WednesdaysFridays
Bible study on Wednesday, supper club on Friday
Wednesday we go straight through a book of the Bible at seven, with childcare in the back room. Friday the room turns into one long table for forty people and a seasonal menu. It sells out.
The kitchen
Breakfast all day, because that is when people need it.
The whole menu
The Bagel Melt
$13Everything bagel, aged white cheddar, thick tomato, griddled until the cheese goes over the edge and crisps.
The Grit Bowl
$15Stone-ground grits, poached egg, blistered tomatoes, greens, sharp cheese and a line of chili oil.
Huckleberry Pancakes
$16Buttermilk stack, wild huckleberry compote, cultured butter, real maple. The reason people drive over.
Pour Over
$7Single origin, ground to order, four minutes of somebody's attention.
Somebody hands you something hot and does not ask what you are here for.
Picked within forty miles
Coffee that stands on its own
Roasted in Whitefish, ground to order, and nobody is upcharging you for oat milk. If it comes out bitter, tell us and we will pull it again.
- Pour over
- $7
- Drip, bottomless before 9
- $4
- Drinking cocoa
- $7
- Loose leaf tea
- $5
After five
The room does not sit empty at night.
Timber trusses, an arched window twenty feet tall, candle rails and a creek out the back door. People get married in here, and people hold memorials in here, sometimes in the same week.
The Sanctuary
seats 120The tall room with the arched window and the timber trusses. Long tables, candle rails, a piano and a sound system already in it.
$650per evening
The Creek Room
seats 40The low room off the kitchen with windows onto the water. Warmer, quieter, and you can hear the creek with the door open.
$325per evening
The Whole House
seats 180Both rooms, the kitchen, the patio and the footbridge. We staff it, you host it.
$900per evening
If you need something
Ask. Nobody keeps a record.
Groceries, a tank of gas, a bill you cannot cover this month, a ride to Kalispell, a place to sit while you make a hard phone call. We keep a real list of who in the valley can help with what, and we will walk you to it.
If you have something
An hour is worth more than a cheque here.
We need drivers, dishwashers, people who can fix a furnace, people who will sit with somebody at a hospital, and people who will just show up at six and sing. Tell us what you have got.
The prayer wall
Write it down and we will actually pray for it.
Every request goes on the rail by the candles and gets prayed over at the next hour, out loud, by whoever is in the room. You can put your name on it or leave it anonymous. Nothing gets posted publicly unless you tick the box.
Come once. If it is not for you, the coffee was still good.
412 Grand Avenue, Bigfork. Park behind the building, come over the footbridge. If you would rather ask a question out loud first, the house answers its phone at any hour.
The weekly hours, by email
Straight answers
- Do I have to be religious to come to Hallelujah House?
- No. It is a cafe with excellent coffee and all-day breakfast, and the door is unlocked whether or not you know why you came. Prayer happens at 6am, noon and 6pm and lasts twenty to forty-five minutes. Nobody will ask you to join and nobody will ask you to leave.
- What time does Hallelujah House open in Bigfork?
- The kitchen opens at 5:30am Monday through Saturday, 7am on Sunday, and closes at 3pm. The sanctuary is unlocked from 5am until 9pm every day, which is longer than the kitchen is open.
- What is on the all-day breakfast menu?
- Bagel melts, eggs benedict, buttermilk biscuits and gravy, grit bowls, protein bowls, huckleberry pancakes, gourmet yogurt parfaits, and pour-over coffee, drinking cocoa and loose leaf tea. Breakfast is served from open until close with no cutoff.
- Can I rent Hallelujah House for an event?
- Yes. The Sanctuary seats 120, the Creek Room seats 40, and the whole house holds 180. Evening rentals run from 5pm and include staff. It is used for wedding receptions, showers, rehearsal dinners, memorials, concerts and company nights.
- Is there live music at Hallelujah House?
- Live sung worship happens seven days a week, at every prayer hour, plus Wednesday Bible study and the Friday supper club. It is acoustic and it is live, not a playlist.