Vision and Mission

Sustainable Traditions is a call to an embodied, holistic, ‘whole-life’ Christian faith. It is a project that seeks to elevate and to model a faithful pursuit of Jesus in the context of our turbulent times. It is a counter-cultural call beyond religious-consumerism and compartmentalized beliefs to become people who embody the love and presence of our Creator/Redeemer in the localities He has placed us in. It is a call to prayer, intentional community, cooperative lifestyles, caring for the poor and marginalized, creation care and sustainable agriculture- it is a call to waste our lives on the sustainable traditions of GOD- and to abandon for dead the traditions born of men alone.

It is a call to the American exiles of a fatally wounded empire to change our allegiance from all that has captivated us- to fall before the Great Sustainer, Jesus, He who one day will reconcile all things, and ask Him for the eternal paths, the ancient way, the path through storms and shaking- to create new forms and expressions of His Coming Kingdom in this ‘present evil age’.

Our Mission:

To encourage, cultivate and support communities of practice that holistically embody a whole-life pursuit of Jesus in the context of prayer, sustainable living, social justice and intentional community.

Our Vision:

To cultivate the understanding and practice of whole-life Christian faith through:

• Educating and Informing: through the use of media (our online website/blogazine, social media, a future print publication,  future video series, and other media storytelling).
• Networking and Connecting: people through the web (our online community, online social networks) and in person (future regional gatherings/clusters, future nationwide network).
• Facilitating and Propagating: the vision with ‘working’ conferences, church and neighborhood focused initiatives (encouraging simple living, sustainable agriculture, missional living, creation care, caring for the poor…).
• Planting and Cultivating: intentional Christian communities/’villages of GOD’ of shared-life, mission and discipleship beginning in the Virginia area with the creation of a ‘holy laboratory’ rooted in the rural Bedford/Lynchburg area.