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Feb. 27 Conversation with Mark Van Steenwyk in Seattle

 

Join us at the Mustard Seed House for an evening of conversation with Missio Dei’s communitarian Mark Van Steenwyk and follow Mustard Seed House people.
Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei (an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West Bank of Minneapolis that pursues Jesus’ way of simplicity, prayer, hospitality, and peace). Missio [...]

MSH Advent Morning and Evening Prayers

Download now this PDF including a new set of Advent responsive prayers curated by Christine Sine.
Advent Morning & Evening Prayers.
This are the prayers we are using at the Mustard Seed House - daily at 8:30 AM (PST) and 9:00 PM (PST). Download them and pray with us.

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Discernment at the Mustard Seed House

Via Godspace
Sunday night we started a series of discernment sessions with the Mustard Seed House community to work out how we can put our MSA rule of life into practice.  Over the next few months we plan to use this process to flesh out the shape of not just our community life but our personal disciplines too.  The idea [...]

thoughts about community from my 5yrs old daughter

Last month I interviewed Catie for the MSA Seed Sampler issue on Living Simply with Kids. I asked her thoughts on why she lives in community and the importance of gardening. It’s pretty insightful and very funny.
Listen here.

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New Season in the Mustard Seed House

Tonight we had our first community dinner night with Dustin and Joy, the new communitarians at Mustard Seed House. After several times together and several times of prayer and discernment, we invited Joy and Dustin to be part in this adventure of living in intentional community.
Here is the Afro-Celtic prayer we prayed as way to [...]

Mark your calendar: Living Simply with Kids Workshop

 

The Revolution Starts at Home: Living Simply with Kids
This will the the first in a series of workshops and conversations related to homegrown revolution, alternative living, sustainability, cultural awareness, social justice and other holy mischievous act of resistance and creativity.
For those of us trying to live an intentional Christian life kids can be both and [...]

Photos of the Mustard Seed House

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 [...]

Open space at MSH for those seriously seeking community

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 [...]

Thin Space: Learning from the Celtic Saints

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 [...]

The Missional Imagination: Jordoncooper.com

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 [...]

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