I want to point my readers to the work of a brother in East Belfast (Glenn of crookedshore fame). Glenn's project really takes seriously Jeremiah's call to the exiled Israelites to "seek the peace and the welfare of the city" (Jer. 29:7). I encourage you:

(1) To read thoroughly through two sites (http://www.skainos.org and www.ebm.org.uk),

(2) To share the story with your communities of what Glenn and his sisters and brothers are doing to manifest the kingdom where they are, and

(3) To initiate dialogue in your churches and communities about how you can be working in your cities to build the kind of shalom and seek the kind of welfare in which God's intentions for his creation are manifested.

Not only that, I'd like to hear your opinions on alternative, but complementary, strategies to projects like Skainos. What other kinds of things should we be up to?

Finally, I'd love to receive emails or comments from any group that is up to similar stuff. If you have a website, send me a link and I'll post it up here. If you have a vision, share it with me. The more we can see what we're doing all over the world, the broader our vision of God's kingdom will become, and the more encouraged we will be to work toward it.