Forming a New Community

GraceRiver is so exciting right now. We are forming a New Community of mission minded people who passionately live core values. Proximity is never the key to community, proximity of the heart is! One of our core values for this new community is how we deal with conflict. The culture, in conflict, blows up or backs up. People unfriend each other or "let them have it". We are committed to doing it different. We are committed to "stepping up" which means:
-we take the leadership role to resolve conflict not just let it ruminate and destroy
-we "step up" to see from a higher vantage so that we can see others stake, risk, reason for their perspective
-we choose to value the larger body even if it means it cost me personally


And here's the real deal. Families will be different all across this community. Moms and dads will deal with their own conflict in more healthy ways, kids will learn how to resolve conflict rather than just mimicking what they see, back up or blow up. And family systems will breathe health and wholeness into the families in our neighborhoods. That is spiritual influence and that is bringing the Kingdom of God to people all across this community. And that is a new community!!!