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https://emergingcommunities.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/debbie-gish-interview.mp3 Church of the Sojourners 25th Anniversary Celebration Debbie Gish is a founding member of Church of the Sojourners in San Francisco’s Mission District, a community of the Shalom Mission Communities network. She works as an adoption social worker and, with her husband Dale, is parent to two daughters, Annalise and Rebecca. In our conversation, Debbie and I discuss the emergence of Sojourners as both church and community from a small collective of five young women and three older couples with children engaged in urban ministry in the mid-1980s. Debbie speaks of the community’s search for healthy balance and boundaries in their life and ministry together, which led to the development of a particular self-understanding as church that emphasizes loving one another well as the Body of Christ. This understanding manifests in a form of ministry and hospitality that Debbie describes as functioning primarily as the Inn rather than the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). In other words, whereas much emphasis tends to get placed on ministry as going out to those in need, Sojourners’ role looks more like that of the Inn to which the injured are brought to heal. Such people are often integrated into the community, become family, so that the boundary between ministers and those ministered to dissolves. Debbie also shares about her own learning process through 25 years of communal living: from an exuberant honeymoon period, to a deeper realization of community as her way of living out her discipleship to God, the joys of living through the various stages of her life in the close company of others, and a grasp of the necessity of stability and commitment to human flourishing. Finally, since Church of the Sojourners is often identified with the New Monasticism, and Debbie and other members were present when the 12 Marks of the New Monasticism were developed, we spend some time talking about the strengths and challenges in this vital, emerging community movement. As someone who appreciates contrast, I found going from spending time with Mark Scandrette to staying with Church of the Sojourners particularly illuminating (incidentally, they’re friends and neighbors). In my perception, whereas Mark emphasizes spiritual formation and building community within a highly fluid social environment, Sojourners places great value on stability and mutual commitment in the context of living together for the long haul. Not to exaggerate the contrast, since both overlap in their seeking greater intentionality as Christian disciples through caring, committed relationships. But I was struck by Debbie’s reflections on enduring commitment as the place wherein human beings grow and flourish, a truth our culture has largely forgotten, to the point where it’s difficult to even communicate this wisdom to others. Does our culture need pockets of strong counter-witness, like Sojourners, to excessive autonomy and mobility? I’m inclined to believe, yes, without diminishing the value of forms of community such as Mark’s that can accommodate mobility and flux. (Tech lesson of the day: avoid recording interviews next to a refrigerator with a high-sensitivity mic in a high-ceilinged, uncarpeted kitchen…) Into/Outro music “He Prabhu” by Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam., and John Pennington, from Compassionate and Wise.

<a href="https://emergingcommunities.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/debbie-gish-interview.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://emergingcommunities.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/debbie-gish-interview.mp3</a> <a href="https://emergingcommunities.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/sojourners.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>Church of the Sojourners 25th Anniversary Celebration Debbie Gish is a founding member of <a href="http://churchofthesojourners.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Church of the Sojourners</a> in San Francisco’s Mission District, a community of the <a href="http://www.shalomconnections.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shalom Mission Communities</a> network. She works as an adoption social worker and, with her husband Dale, is parent to two daughters, Annalise and Rebecca. In our conversation, Debbie and I discuss the emergence of Sojourners as both church and community from a small collective of five young women and three older couples with children engaged in urban ministry in the mid-1980s. Debbie speaks of the community’s search for healthy balance and boundaries in their life and ministry together, which led to the development of a particular self-understanding as church that emphasizes loving one another well as the Body of Christ. This understanding manifests in a form of ministry and hospitality that Debbie describes as functioning primarily as the Inn rather than the Good Samaritan (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A25-37&amp;version=NIV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Luke 10:25-37</a>). In other words, whereas much emphasis tends to get placed on ministry as going out to those in need, Sojourners’ role looks more like that of the Inn to which the injured are brought to heal. Such people are often integrated into the community, become family, so that the boundary between ministers and those ministered to dissolves. Debbie also shares about her own learning process through 25 years of communal living: from an exuberant honeymoon period, to a deeper realization of community as her way of living out her discipleship to God, the joys of living through the various stages of her life in the close company of others, and a grasp of the necessity of stability and commitment to human flourishing. Finally, since Church of the Sojourners is often identified with the <a href="http://www.newmonasticism.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Monasticism</a>, and Debbie and other members were present when the <a href="http://www.thesimpleway.org/about/12-marks-of-new-monasticism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">12 Marks of the New Monasticism</a> were developed, we spend some time talking about the strengths and challenges in this vital, emerging community movement. As someone who appreciates contrast, I found going from spending time with <a href="https://emerging-communities.com/2011/11/14/episode-13%e2%80%94mark-scandrette-spiritual-formation-in-the-kingdom-of-love/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Scandrette</a> to staying with Church of the Sojourners particularly illuminating (incidentally, they’re friends and neighbors). In my perception, whereas Mark emphasizes spiritual formation and building community within a highly fluid social environment, Sojourners places great value on stability and mutual commitment in the context of living together for the long haul. Not to exaggerate the contrast, since both overlap in their seeking greater intentionality as Christian disciples through caring, committed relationships. But I was struck by Debbie’s reflections on enduring commitment as the place wherein human beings grow and flourish, a truth our culture has largely forgotten, to the point where it’s difficult to even communicate this wisdom to others. Does our culture need pockets of strong counter-witness, like Sojourners, to excessive autonomy and mobility? I’m inclined to believe, yes, without diminishing the value of forms of community such as Mark’s that can accommodate mobility and flux. (Tech lesson of the day: avoid recording interviews next to a refrigerator with a high-sensitivity mic in a high-ceilinged, uncarpeted kitchen…) Into/Outro music “He Prabhu” by Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam., and John Pennington, from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Compassionate-Wise-Gregorian-Chant/dp/B000W7Y2VY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Compassionate and Wise.</a>

Episode 14—Debbie Gish: Church of the Sojourners