Our Mission
We’ll help you slow down, audit your current reality, and intentionally establish a pace and practices for deep connection. Welcome to the relational habitat you were made for.
We’re experiencing more disconnection than ever due to…
1. Left Brain Dominant Formation
We’ve mostly majored on having right thoughts about God, while neglecting deepening experiences with God.
2. Alone Together
Even when we’re around others, deep connection is often rare.
3. Shrinking the Present
Our pace of life and tech distractions are leading to further alienation.
4. Broken Images of God
77% of people have a negative emotional image of God in their right brain – believing God is angry, distant, or critical.
Eden was
meant to grow
God begins his
work to restore
God’s Eden
Project continues…
Eden was the ideal relational habitat, an abundant place where God dwelled with man. East of Eden you’re formed, malformed, and reformed in relationship. As you connect directly with God, engage in a gracious community, and attend to key practices you’ll come back to the home you were made for.
A two-night introductory retreat designed to deepen your connection with God, yourself and others
A one-year relational development journey for Ministry Leaders – surrendering to God’s love to become more mature in love.
A one-year relational development journey for Marketplace leaders – becoming more inwardly sound and outwardly focused
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Because we are loved by God, we cultivate environments conducive to deep and meaningful relationships.
“Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.”
We have been created as embodied beings with an innate capacity for relationship. Because emotion is the language of relationship, we champion the courage required to examine our emotion and the honesty and vulnerability necessary to admit what is true about ourselves in the presence of God and others. As our emotional quotient grows, our capacity for relationship deepens and enables us to create spacious environments for others to experience deeper relationships themselves. The more we have of ourselves, the more we are able to give to others, and vice versa. This relational flourishing bears witness of the reality of the kingdom of God in a relationally fractured, isolated world. We reject any desire or attempt to live out of an artificial, false self, and work hard to maintain and grow authentic environments with meaningful relationships.
Because we are loved by God, we sit in unresolved tension with others, curious about how God is at work for our good in his time and his way.
“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
Because we are settled in the joy that comes from experiencing an identity as God’s beloved with an integrous life, we are naturally able to sit with others in the unresolved tensions of their lives. We reject any attempt to fix others apart from the leading and empowerment of the Spirit. Rather, we patiently wait with others, continually pointing them to the presence and work of God in their lives. This allows us to be relationally present, instead of pushing an agenda on God and others to behave in ways we assume is right. We reject any attempt to coerce transformation or “hurry” someone along in their journey toward maturity, instead holding a posture of dependence on God in the lives of others.
