Community ??

2014 was a year full of teams and volunteers. While this was an AWESOME blessing here at Beautiful Gate, it also came with a sense of loss. The loss was that of community for those who are living here longer term. In being busy, sometimes we did not seek each other out to have daily or even sometimes weekly interactions. When Bryan and I first came here, we usually had only 2-3 long term volunteers living on campus most of the time. We also had only 2 -3 volunteers living off campus at a time. Now we have 3-4 volunteers living off campus, 4 long term volunteers in one house, and 4 long term volunteers in another house and that is not even counting my family. Once again I do not say this as if it is a bad thing, just noticing the differences. Having one to two volunteers over for dinner is not as easy as it once was :)


Bryan, Tyler and I are concerned about our lack of community as volunteers so we are going to start up a bible study just for BG volunteers on Tuesday nights. We are going to try to be intentional to build community. It will be an ever changing and ever growing/decreasing community, but we are going to do our best to try to love Jesus more. We want to grow deeper in our love for the One who brought us all together to serve His precious little children. Please pray for us to do this well so we can share and carry one another's burdens. If any of you have any good suggestions for a group study, please feel free to comment on this post so that we have a few ideas. I'll be honest, I have been out of America for 4 years and may not know a lot about good Bible study material or good books that are really convicting and may help us all go deeper with God. Thanks!