Share Jesus House

This is just a quick post to make sure that I have the things that are happening on record so that in future days I can look back and learn.
Share Jesus International have been given a house (an old farmhouse) with a bit of land and the remains of a few farm buildings. This is very exciting as they can do with it what they want. The really cool thing is the location of the house which is just outside St Just and on a hill that overlooks Land's End. There is an uniterrupted view of the lighthouse and rocks there! So we are pressing into to hear what God would have us do with the place. This is an extract from an email that I sent to Andy Frost with my own thoughts and vision for the place:

The vision that I have for the house and land is this (similar in lots of ways to the transit course on the boiler room site)

I want to see a community created there that is focussed on prayer and mission, on intimacy and power much like we have been talking about this week! Imagine 60 people living in a permanent community like we had at walk on water. I want to see the site used to make money to support the community. People would be living in a rhythm of life that is monastic, work, prayer and mission. The place could be a modern day Hernhut community with the prayer birthing missionaries from there to go to the nation and nations (like India!) I would have visiting speakers to come and bring not sessions of teaching but rather themselves for a small period of time. So Martin Scott (eg) could come down for a week and invest what he has in that community, being part of it for the time he was there. We could run specific events from there such as DP, wow, Destiny and all that small scale type stuff that fits in to our heart for prayer and mission. We could also have people who come in to the community for shorter spaces of time, either a few months to do a course like Transit (see Boiler rooms site) or just for a while to have a retreat and renewal type experience. But overall I see there should be a permanent community of people who live, work to support themselves on site, pray and go on mission from there. It will be a monastery, a base for prayer and mission. This would still leave it open for all the extra stuff like conferences, training and church weekends away. That could be another source of income and work for the guys! It will be a centre of excellence! The other really exciting thing about what I feel is the idea of recreating (in this new time) the Moravian community at hernhut. Remember what Justin said about the 24-7 movement and the Methodist Church. This place could combine those 2 and amazing things could happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited about all of this and the whole India thing. This is definitely a time of acceleration towards the things of God. My heart is for Intimacy and Power. In fact I want to do some writing now about all that so check my blog out for my thoughts as I try to describe all that I feel God is laying on my heart.

Andy then said that his friend John had invited him to come and help out at a worship event in Hernhut in October!
I am taking around a gut that financially supports SJI on Friday this week so we will see what happens!

(Also there is other stuff that I cannot record here but I write this to remind myself that it is there!)