Here we will try to put together where we want to go to, what we believe is the simplest way to shine Gods Love to the world. Driven by that motivation, we actually would like to give what parents would give and teach, like values, life skills and the mindset of love one another. We believe that team work, taking responsibilities, and the desire of doing always what needs to be done in His name, will lead us to walk the right path.
With this vision we not only want to create a base concept with which we can share and care for others, but also where we can make others able to do the same.
We are living in a time when social interactions become more and more important. Social media makes us able to communicate with many around the world, but important social skills and needs become rare. A regular fellowship can become an institution with many functions. From sharing problems and happiness to share and get food or help with their children. A fellowship, a gathering in person, is a happening where every ones heart gets bigger.
A fellowship is probably the best way to welcome strangers to become friends, and to invite them to become a brother or sister. It is a place where trust is build and a place to find out what God has done to make everyone and this moment special. It is a place of comfort and being accepted.
Cooking Angels is the title of a ministry we plan to realize. It is a kind of tradition for the girls of our church to gather and cook together on Sundays after service. For some who don’t want to go home, don’t know something better to do, or don’t have money to buy food it is a welcome moment. But because it is only limited space in front of the room of one of the girls, it limits the amount of people to join. It always had been a lot of fun, positive energy and interactions. Everyone is sitting on the floor, side by side of each other while eating.
A proverb in Germany says ‘Love goes through the stomach’.
It is only logic to use the combination of a fellowship with cooking for welcoming and integration. But also to channel this energy of happiness and thankfulness to bless others who are in need.
A MAKERSPACE is a place where tools and material are provided for hands-on experiences, learning skills, realizing ideas.
In the US maker spaces are already known for community projects. Here in Indonesia it would allow ordinary people especially kids to have access to tools and machines to raise people with a mindset of making, creating, engineering, teaming, sharing and learning. But it also would be a perfect place for fellowship, teaching values and life skills like a family. If kids develop for example a sense for quality and precision, have experience to work for example on a lathe then they automatically have different opportunities and perspectives for their future life.
Being able to build, repair or recycle something is creating independence, freedom and confidence. Therefore a makerspace is a great educational tool.
Since I have started to build things that would provide people with their essential needs, I dreamed about and prayed for that I just had enough space to build, test and store, that I would have just the right tool, and that I would have some more budget to buy material I need instead of using whatever I have or search for it. I spend so much time by making it happen with what I have that it took a lot of momentum in doing.
A workshop with some tools, basic power tools and machines would make a lot of things more easy, fast and precise, but it cost money and care. To share such a privilege with others with a meaningful porpoise could be the solution.
Both, Cooking Angels and the Makerspace have the potential to become mobile. It makes more sense to move to the communities than to move the communities to wherever you are. That gives a much bigger range of impact, and much more possibilities for further community approaches.
It easily can become a side project of the makerspace to build modules for cooking and making who fit on an inexpensive standard pickup car.
Combining a fellowship with cooking(workshop) for one another and needed communities, and a maker space for hands-on projects. First stationary, but with further progress both cooking and maker space shall become mobile and move to different communities.