HomeBuilders Fellowship

Continuing our recent thoughts on community living and building a community, a new HomeBuilders group just started this weekend. About 7-8 married couples, including ourselves, got together and fellowshipped over a potluck meal and a time of sharing.

We are/will be going through a series of studies developed by FamilyLife to help strengthen our marriage, find accountability with other married folks, and build a stronger community.

We’re pretty excited about this group. When we first got married two and half years ago, it was a difficult transition in terms of finding the right fellowship, maintaining friendships/relationships, and finding a balance between community time and marriage-enhancement time. The relationships and friendships we had before being married naturally shifted toward other married folks. But then, our married friends started disappearing, either because they went back to the U.S. or because they had babies. It’s a pretty transient community and people come, people go. It’s hard to find a consistent group of people to maintain and build relationships.

This new HomeBuilders group consists of several married couples, many of whom have been around for several years and will probably stick around for several more. We are the youngest and only couple without kids! All the other couples have at least two kids. One couple has five! They’ve all been married for at least 5-6 years, so we look forward to learning from and fellowshipping with them.