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What is Bartimaeus Cohousing Community?
The vision of Bartimaeus Cohousing Community at Meadow Wood is to create a safe, affordable, and welcoming place where people can substantially grow into the whole, healthy, unique persons God intended. We also want to create a place where adults and families in difficult circumstances can come to be restored through sustained involvement in a strong, safe community. This “refamilying” can help them regain their strength and become whole, outreach-capable individuals.
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We do this by committing ourselves to “living in community.” By choosing to live in closer proximity with others than is normally the case in suburban housing, we are opening ourselves up to unique growth opportunities.
By choosing to live in closer proximity with others, we are opening ourselves up to unique growth opportunities.
These include making decisions together, doing gardening and yard work, eating, playing and praying together, sharing our talents with the community, and working through conflicts as they arise. We envision a place we and our guests may voluntarily and comfortably participate in community meals, prayer, music, informal conversations, visiting speakers, and other activities, while respecting our legitimate needs for privacy and solitude as well.
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Residence in this community is not intended to replace a person’s involvement in a local church, but to extend and empower that dynamic into an everyday living experience.
Residence in this community is not intended to replace a person’s involvement in a local church...
It is our hope that a diversity of Christian faith traditions will be included in the blended family we envision together. Those who are not sure of their faith are welcome. We wish to enjoy each other in the Spirit of Christ, and to learn from one another.
We are a community that supports one another through good times as well as difficult ones. We want to live out our faith in a whole life situation. We invite others into this pilgrimage of faith.
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