What is community?

This is a question that comes up quite often here at KBC and in church situations I have been around. I'm not talking what area of town do you live in or how do you get together with you neighborhood, but rather who do you share your ideas, heart and feeligs with, and who do you get on with (British way of saying you enjoy their company) on a consisent basis. One of the goals of our time here is to experience Christian community, to somewhat understand how it is formed, to further understand how to foster community with others around us. We were put in charge of a community outreach group at KBC, basically there are 5 groups of 8 people, ours like the others is made up of a group of people that usually would not hang out or get on with each other much. I had hardly talked to some of them before our first time praying together. With that being said we knew that we had to get to know each other before any serious opening up, ministry and working together would really take place consistently. So we had them all over on Thursday night for fajitas (my can Rebecca cook) and we had the best time. We played a game or two that got everyone out of their comfort zone (for those of you who have played our games, you probably know what I mean:), we laughed, we ate some pudding, we laughed, we prayed, we laughed and talked and at about 10:45 they slowly, somewhat wishing they didn't have to leave, they left. We didn't expect this type of evening, but now that our COG has gotten off to a good start hopefully this will be another example of God bringing together a 'motley crue' to accomplish His mission, not unlike the 12 disciples or the first leaders in the church of Acts. Our outreach will probably be something to do with children, possibly art or music related, with a slant on the creative, I along with the group are quite tickled by the possibilities. So I started this post with the question of what is community and hopefully I and you are understanding it more, it is the way that Christ lived with his followers, open, vulnerable, on the cutting edge, taking up each others concerns, watching out for each other, and being friends. Do enjoy the pictures of our new community group, if they are not here yet, look back in a few hours and they should be up. Take care and God bless
earl