Our move down under is the realization of a dream we've had for nearly a decade. The last several years our purpose in going has become more defined—to live in Christchurch & engage in ministry alongside what God is already doing.

In the first year, our main focus will center on two things: Running a hospitality house for a local YWAM base & Coming alongside the organic house church movement in the region. The location of New Zealand also enables us easy access to Southeast Asia, the South Pacific Islands, and Australia. Our hope is to engage in regular missional ventures in these areas and others, teaching and bringing assistance as it is needed.

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Our culture has been forward thinking in so many ways, from technology to social engineering, but too often the Christian community has failed to look ahead in the same way. Our involvement with the organic church movement is birthed out of a desire to observe cultural movement and create structures in which upcoming generations can experience God and community in meaningful and transformational ways.

Modern Church expressions are often dominated by intellectual and spiritual elitism, but the Church initiated by Christ is for the people — the "everybodies", the underdogs, and the outcasts. We desire to see this truth become self-evident and tangible and are working toward this in everything we do.

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