- This group is managed by Jeremy Kenward
- Meeting Times:
Various times, neighborhoods, places around Detroit - Meeting Location:
- For More Info Call:
313-576-7818
Detroit Villages
"It takes many villages to raise a church."
More and more people are interested in being the body of Christ for the world in a different way than some of our traditional Christian congregations. So, with a grant from the New Church Start Committee of the Detroit Annual Conference of the UMC we are looking to become a laboratory for a new grassroots effort of planting organic missional communities within the City of Detroit.
Below is a description of what these communities will be. We look forward to helping plant 2-3 of them in the City of Detroit each year for the next few years.
Detroit Villages residents are:
- Persons living Christian lives of service and who see their local neighborhoods and the people in them as the most basic cells of Christ's body the church.
- Persons interested in relocating to the City of Detroit or those already living in the city who feel called to live in a new intentional network of Christian villages.
- Persons who value diverse communities: young and old, rich and poor, multi-ethnic, as a means by which God builds us up, challenges us, and makes God's kingdom real on earth.
- Person who secure their own housing and have their own "tentmaking" jobs, but who also feel called to the work of neighborhood-based Christian discipleship and community development.
Detroit Villages residents will:
- Develop a covenantal agreement with each other and with residents of other houses for living intentionally.
- Get to know their neighbors - paying careful attention to both the needs and assets of the community.
- Practice living a Christian missional life together with house mates and neighbors.
- Join in ongoing discernment about how Detroit Villages micro-grants are distributed among village participants.
- Join in sharing the stories of your Village through the emergedetroit.org web site.
- Share each house/village's gifts and talents at a monthly "public meeting." This will be a common meal, worship service, and conversation time for all those involved in home communities ("new residents" and neighbors alike).
Please email Carl with the email tab above for more information or with questions.
