{"id":73193,"date":"2018-08-04T12:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T16:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73193"},"modified":"2018-08-04T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T16:34:09","slug":"rg-learning-to-sustain-community-in-a-setting-characterized-by-rapid-turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73193","title":{"rendered":"(RG) Learning to sustain community in a setting characterized by rapid turnover"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Read Regent alums &amp; current L&#8217;Abri workers Ben Keyes &amp; Nickaela Fiore-Keyes on learning to sustain community in a setting characterized by rapid turnover. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dMbCmTnp5d\">https:\/\/t.co\/dMbCmTnp5d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hwoDrz4pdu\">pic.twitter.com\/hwoDrz4pdu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Regent College (@regentcollege) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/regentcollege\/status\/1025778425817165826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you give me an example of a student or worker who has been strongly shaped by community?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben:<\/strong>\u00a0At L\u2019Abri, we believe that the Christian belief should be worked out and modeled\u2014in very tangible ways. Students deserve to see us living like it\u2019s true and part of this is played out in what we call \u201cinstitutional weaknesses. \u201d An example is that we choose not to fundraise, advertise, or recruit staff. Instead, those are all items of continual prayer, and they have been huge shaping influences for people who work in L\u2019Abri. Just take the finances: the fact that we would be able to turn on the lights [demonstrates] that for years and years and years God has provided. The students who come, even for a short time, see that\u2014and they are quite moved by it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has living in community over a long period of time changed each of you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nickaela:<\/strong>\u00a0I think one thing for me is the use of time. I am so motivated by efficiency, to see results of my day. There is that place in C.S. Lewis\u2019s\u00a0<em>Screwtape Letters<\/em>\u00a0when Screwtape says, \u201cJust tell them that time is their own.\u201d I see how indignant we become when our time is \u201ctaken.\u201d For me, [it\u2019s important to find] the space to be okay with the interruptions, [to see] that our calling really is the interruptions\u2014the shaping of our lives to see that God sees us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben<\/strong>: For me (and Nickaela will laugh because I haven\u2019t changed\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0much), well, my tendency is toward conflict avoidance. One of the things living in community has taught me is, with the other workers in particular, you can\u2019t sit on things and have relationships be healthy. You have to have those difficult conversations, and then see the good things that come of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nickaela:<\/strong>\u00a0One more thing. Gregory Boyle in his book\u00a0<em>Tattoos on the Heart\u00a0<\/em>talks about, \u201cthe duty to delight.\u201d Whether that is working hard outside or cooking a meal or eating a good meal, God delights. We have a duty to delight in those things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/world.regent-college.edu\/field-notes\/ben-and-nickaela-keyes\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Regent alums &amp; current L&#8217;Abri workers Ben Keyes &amp; Nickaela Fiore-Keyes on learning to sustain community in a setting characterized by rapid turnover. https:\/\/t.co\/dMbCmTnp5d pic.twitter.com\/hwoDrz4pdu \u2014 Regent College (@regentcollege) August 4, 2018 Can you give me an example of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73193\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,174,98,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-apologetics","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73198,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73193\/revisions\/73198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}