The Village

 

A few months ago I posted a coming soon tab on my blog and if your curiosity got the better of you clicked on the tab and saw a graphic advertising something called The Village.  At this point your head was most definitely spinning with mixed feelings towards this ambiguous title.  “Is it a new section of the blog tied into the meladramatic fictional M. Night whats-his-name’s movie The Village?” This was your most immediate thought guaranteed and I hate to disappoint the masses, but it is not a section of my blog interconnected to M. Night whats-his-name’s movie.  What it is, is infinitely more significant and awesome.  Because I have felt the outcries of the despondent blog readers to answer the question what is the Village I felt that it was finally time to do so.  

In January myself and a few other ordinary radicals will be launching a community called The Village.  We have been working on the project for the last three months and all who are inclined to participate will experience the culmination of our efforts. 

This project was started with the hopes of building community and that is why we have dubbed it the Village.  We believe truly that inside of honest community people can begin to shed the shackles of insecurity and express themselves free of judgment and worry.  Inside this type of community people can ask questions of God, spirituality, ethics, and life and not worry about being seen as petty or obtrusive.  Inside of the Village we hope to build a community that people can grow in, serve in, create in, and share in.

Within community questions that need to be asked can be asked and answered and a pursuit of authentic spirituality can begin.  This is not something easily quantified or measured but it is a goal of The Village.  We want to help foster a genuine pursuit of Jesus in the lives of the students who are apart of The Village. 

If community is fostering authentic spirituality it can begin to also cultivate missional living.  As a community we do not want to take what we experience and horde it to ourselves, because if we do we aren’t loving others or God.  Within the community of the Village we believe there be a safe place to serve and to work on behalf of the Gospel of Jesus.  We want to as literally as we can follow the way of Jesus, and to do this we need to be in the streets feeding the hungry, in the prisons visiting the lonely, we need to be with the broken showing them and sharing with them the love of Jesus. 

This is The Village; this is our purpose, our design, our mission, and our passion.  Email me for more info, but the only way to really understand The Village is to come experience it for yourself on January 6^th @ the warehouse.