Visioning Session

All of the communities that have participated at the quarterly gathering of communities were recently invited to send a rep(s) from there community to a NYC Community of Communities Visioning Session.

Half a dozen communities (Menno House, Harlem Girls, Whole House, Radical Living, the Bruderhof-Harlem House, and the Palma Boys) were represented at the Visioning Session, which took place Friday, June 26th at Menno House.

At the Visioning Session we discussed 1) Inter-community Networking and Fellowship, 2) Training/Teaching opportunities, and 3) Advocacy and Volunteering. The full notes from this meeting were sent to the communities. Please pray that the Spirit continues to lead this movement.

Banner House-Service Project

The NYC Community of Communities  is partnering with the Banner House community in Long Island to serve the community they live in. This is also a great opportunity to spend quality time together. Let’s make a day of it! You’re of course welcome to come late or leave early if need be. Here’s the link to the Facebook event’s page.

Schedule:

10:00 a.m. Meet at Penn Station to depart on LIRR for Long Beach (departs at 10:22)
(People coming from Brooklyn might want to get the train at Jamaica)
11:08 a.m. Arrive at Long Beach
11:30 a.m. Start community clean up service project
1:30 or so Lunch
3:00 p.m. Hang out in Long Beach
5:00 p.m. Bon Fire on the beach
8:00 p.m. Return

The first steps

The NYC Community of communities, organized by Amy Stabeno of the Harlem Girls, has gathered three times over the last year. We have fellowshipped, broken bread, prayed, and shared stories.

At the recent Spring gathering at All Angels we discussed ways to go deeper as a Community. We talked about organizing as a collective so that our presence (i.e., social witness) will be felt not just in our neighborhoods, apartment buildings and brownstone homes, but on the streets and in the subways, in the shelters and city hall, and even in the churches and places where we worship.

This site and our ONLINE CALENDAR are meant to help us as we begin to organize our efforts to find new ways to support one another as we participate in the movement of God’s Spirit!