Radical Journey Bradford, England

Description

Radical Journey is a year-long experience that begins a conversation that will continue for the rest of your life. Through this conversation, you will develop spiritually and personally by integrating faith into your life through experiential cross-cultural learning and service. You will develop leadership abilities within a supportive community, exploring faith and life from an Anabaptist perspective.

The conversation will begin in the urban setting of Chicago. For a month, as you discern and live out your faith, you will live in an intentional community that practices hospitality and strives to offer and receive God's love.

From there, the conversation will continue in one of several international service assignments for 11 months. Mentors will walk alongside you as you witness God at work in the world and imagine ways you can become an example of God's love to others.

After a brief reentry period, you will integrate what you have learned into your home community, and help to encourage and challenge others in their faith journey. You will continue to imagine ways to become a part of what God is doing in the world.

Requirements

Bradford, a university town, is home to immigrants and refugees from many Middle Eastern countries.

This location offers many opportunities for service from after-school programs, volunteering with Tree House (a peace coffeehouse), choirs, and work with refugees. With such a range of racial, socio-economic, and religious diversity, participants have the opportunity to show God?s love in action in a way that crosses these seeming divides. Participants in Bradford have served in the local elementary school assisting teachers and focusing on building relationships with families as they learn to know the children.



Participants in Bradford live as a team in apartment housing in Schoolmore, an area reflecting both the challenges and strengths of urban life.