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Dwell/ing North
Posted By: Zach Hoag
For as long as Dwell has been in existence, we have consistently gathered together in homes for friendship and spiritual conversation. We've just felt, instinctively maybe, that this is how community works - not just in a building once a week, but day to day, house to house, coffee shop to coffee shop.
As our Sunday gathering has grown, God has given us a vision for dwell/ings - a collection of smaller weekly gatherings that act as both a community enhancement for folks who join us on Sundays and a missional opportunity for our friends and neighbors outside of the church. For a while, we had a Tuesday dwell/ing going on at Border's bookstore downtown, and that was fun; and there was another one on Wednesday happening at our old Sunday gathering spot, Kids Alive.
But by God's grace, things are expanding.
Starting this month, the dwell/ings number three, two of which are in Burlington, and one of which is actually up NORTH - in Milton. And there's a reason for that. The reason is because this summer a guy named Trevor decided that he would follow Jesus, that he would leave behind the old self and embrace the new self in Christ because, really, that's who he was always meant to be. He got baptized. He and his wife Sunny came into covenant. And they live, with little Gavin and Chloe, in Milton.
Because the kingdom of God is present and real and growing, Trevor was talking all about Jesus and Dwell with his friend Jac, who told her friend Harold at work who happened to be a follower of Jesus, too. Harold and his awesome wife Nicole came to Dwell and soon came into covenant. Harold and Nicole live in Milton, too.
Now, Dwell/ing North is my dwell/ing, so I'm a little partial. It's amazing. It's incredible. Each week we eat food (a lot), laugh (a lot), and chat about what we've been reading in Don Miller's latest; we pray for each other and encourage one another and talk about how to build a better story and redeem our city and redeem the world.
But the point is that whether you live in BTV or up North, you are welcome to join us in doing life together, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the way Jesus and the early church did. It's a bro-down and a sis-down that is nothing less than beautiful because it's all a part of this wonderful thing called the kingdom of God.
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