Among young people (and older as well) around Detroit we hear people calling out for community. Their lives of independence, while perhaps freeing, also alienate. In that vacuum we seek to create local generative friendships that have "welcome" built into their very fabric.

In some cases these communities take the form of fellowship groups gathering people from an already present congregation. In other instances the emergedetroit network is a laboratory for planting and nurturing new missional communities in Detroit.

In conversation with other intentional communities around the country and world we are eager to see how living radically, locally, and with the compassion and hospitality of Christ will help build the church from its very grassroots. Look for the "Detroit Villages" house churches among the other "groups" of the emergedetroit network.

WWW

newmonasticism.org

A site describing the theological, missional, and communal thought of contemporary intentional Christian communities.

Return Flight by Robert Lupton

Book exploring the impending return to city life and how Christians might go about this in a way that alleviates the negatives of gentrification and replaces it with an orientation to the justice of God's redeemed city vision.

Community of Communities

Developing network of intentional communities across the US.