Objectives

• Embody a vibrant Kingdom vision for a local community and for out-of-town supporters of *cino's work.
• Serve the local community with imagination, food, hospitality, storytelling and art.
• Create space for service, reconciliation and the practical application of scholarship and theology.
• Serve as a regional point of connection for good work and partner with existing community organizations to support and enhance one another's efforts.
• Engage college-age students and post-college learners in the study of historic and contemporary Christian disciplines and home economics.

Possibilities

• An off-campus program for college students that would integrate study with service and community development, possibly exploring the potential of a communal "rule of life" combined with community engagement.
• *cino conferences and workshops on various topics.
• Housing units for a combination of permanent and temporary residents, along with common gathering spaces like a dining room and library.
• Space for vocational retreats for artists, educators and others, as well as room to host groups from churches and other institutions for discipleship training, leadership retreats, service-learning projects and more.
• Arts education and other creative and vocational programs for at-risk youth and low-income neighbors, modeled on the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh.
• Space for education on growing food in urban and suburban contexts, which could serve the local community as well as out-of-town visitors with practical workshops and research.
• A Mennonite Voluntary Service corps with volunteers living together in community and serving local community organizations.