As Uranda continued in his work, he came to believe that it was necessary to purchase a property and establish a Spiritual Center so that the work he was doing could establish deep roots. In 1945, while working out of a headquarters office in Loveland, Colorado, he found a dryland farm on the outskirts of town.
The Board of Emissaries of Divine Light purchased the original Sunrise Ranch property for $6,000 in December of 1945. Just several years after the purchase of the property, the federal government built an irrigation canal through the property, bringing precious water from the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. This was an important factor in letting agriculture flourish in our valley.
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