August 14th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, Prayer, friends, mustard seed house
Today is a sad day at the Mustard Seed House. Our friends, family and fellow communitarians Anneke and Peter Geel are embarking in a new journey today which is taking them away (only physically) from us.
They have been a great influence in shaping the life and rhythms of the Mustard Seed House. We will miss [...]
August 6th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Children, Community, Family, alternative, creativity, faith, friends, gardening, hospitality, incarnational, kids, kingdom, mustard seed house
This is a reflection written by our fellow sister, friend and communitarian at the Mustard Seed House, Anneke Geel.
Reflection: A year at the Mustard Seed House
By Anneke Geel
When Peter and I and moved into the Mustard Seed House, we didn’t know whether it would be for 15 months or several years. As it [...]
July 19th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, alternative, creativity, faith, hospitality, incarnational, kingdom, liberated space, mustard seed house, new monasticism
The Mustard Seed House (MSH) is an intentional Christian Community in Seattle. I am very fortunate to be one of the original core families and conspirators in this liberated space in which we try to embody God’s Kingdom value as a new kind of family.
Here are some photos of some of our gatherings, activities and [...]
June 11th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, Praxis, alternative, christianity, faith, friends, hospitality, kingdom, life, monasticism, multicultural, mustard seed associates, mustard seed house, new monasticism, rule of life
Peter and Anneke Geel will be leaving the Mustard Seed House in August. Peter has been accepted into the doctoral program at Georgetown University and for some reason they aren’t very keen on commuting to Washington DC each week. We are looking for a couple who are interested in joining our small community here in [...]
June 8th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, celebration, friends, mustard seed house
In August Anneke and Peter Geel who live in the basement apartment at the Mustard Seed House will be heading to Georgetown University where Peter will be working on a PhD. Peter’s interest is in Christian/ Islamic relations and so Sunday afternoon we celebrated this new step in their lives with a Middle Eastern [...]
May 19th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Uncategorized, alternative, celtic christianity, christianity, mustard seed house, new monasticism
My Friend Jason from our sister community the Radical Living Community (In NYC) sent me their new newsletter - Agape Times.
In this issue we…
Stop by the local food co-op
Visit the Bruderhof in Harlem
Hear from Eliacin of the Mustard Seed House in Seattle
Share images of hope from Kenya
Explore the relationship between guerilla theater and the prophetic [...]
May 15th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Emerging, Spirituality, alternative, celtic, celtic christianity, celtic spirituality, christianity, creation, creativity, events, mustard seed associates, mustard seed house
Thin Space Learning from the Celtic Saints: a day long learning/sharing experience hosted by Mustard Seed Associates and the Mustard Seed House.
When? June 7
Where? Mustard Seed House, Seattle WA
Register online
The rediscovery of Celtic Christianity has been a delightful revelation for many followers of Christ in recent years. Many Christians are intrigued by this rich tradition and [...]
May 13th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Uncategorized, alternative, blogger, blogs, celtic christianity, celtic spirituality, church, missional, missional church, mustard seed house
I’ve been following Jordon Cooper’s blog for years. He is one of the pioneer bloggers in the whole genx/pomo/emerging church convesation. Today he mentioned the Mustard Seed House (MSH) as one example of what it might look to have a missional imagination by growing communities instead of planting churches. He also mentioned other sisters communities like [...]
April 27th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Emerging, MSA, Web/Tech, blogger, blogs, church, conversation, education, eliacin, events, friends, missional, missions, mustard seed associates, mustard seed house, relationships, social media
Last Thursday around 20 people crammed in our living room for a conversation about Social Media & Mission. I expected a group mostly of geeky guys (maybe gal or two) but to my delight it ended up been a very diverse gathering, with people as old as 70, about half of the participants were [...]
March 12th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, MSA, celtic christianity, celtic spirituality, christianity, creativity, kingdom, monasticism, monastics orders, mustard seed associates, mustard seed house, new monasticism, rule of life
The MSA team has just been on a 2 day retreat. It was wonderful to get away to relax, refresh and to refocus our lives. The main purpose of the retreat was to brainstorm about developing an MSA rule of life. Here are some of our thoughts on where we are at in the [...]
