The Fellowship

spiritual formation + cultural engagement

Be part of God’s story of redemption and renewal in the world.

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Experience the true good life dwelling with God and your neighbors.

You were made for COMMUNITY.

We are not meant to follow Jesus alone but are formed in relationship as part of the body of Christ, where we belong to one another in embodied community. 

The Fellowship is a purposeful community of learners committed to welcoming each other as we are while also committed to each others’ spiritual growth and calling to seek the good of our neighbors.

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God’s grace, mercy, compassion and kindness towards us knows no bounds. It is through disciplines of grace and the power of the Holy Spirit that we move towards Christ-likeness and are able to show this same generosity to others.

The Fellowship teaches formational practices that encourage you to live generously towards others with your time, attention and resources because of the abundant life you have with God.

God is inviting you into his STORY.

Find deeper meaning and purpose by participating in God’s redemptive story in the here and now. Bring hope and healing to your neighbors by demonstrating the love of God through meeting needs and seeking the common good.

The Fellowship teaching is grounded in the Biblical narrative that tells the story of God’s redemptive work and purposes.

The Fellowship is an 8-month immersive experience providing an orientation for living that will form you into the image of Christ and compel you outwards to love your neighbors.

Personal Formation

  • Read a selection of texts, listen to podcasts and watch videos that will guide you in your formation and how you engage with the world (you will read approximately one book per month)

  • Meet with a mentor at least once each month for care, guidance and accountability

  • Engage in regular spiritual formation practices and guided reflection

  • Complete projects and exercises that apply what you are learning to everyday life

Community Formation

  • Gather bi-weekly with for a meal, discussion of reading and other assignments, and to process everyday life in the context of what you are learning

  • Participate in community-based learning that includes teaching from local leaders on spiritual formation and cultural engagement

  • Participate in communal worship and spiritual formation practices

  • Engage with the people and culture of Lancaster

  • Build relationships with peers, mentors, teachers, and neighbors

Be equipped for spiritual maturity and cultural engagement through study and reflection, formational practices, and purposeful relationships.

What Participants Are Saying

  • Through the people and the work in this fellowship, I've seen God work in amazing ways to challenge and grow my faith… [I’ve learned that] to be a good neighbor is to seek God's redemptive plan for my life and for the world around me. It is to care and to love those around me, to seek ways to help and engage others, even (and especially) when it is inconvenient or hard.

    In the last 3/4 months, I really have felt part of a community and encouraged to grow. I wouldn't be where I am today (spiritually) without this fellowship and this program.

    - Vivi, class of 2025

  • I am learning to accept that spiritual rhythms are best practiced when in a community, rather than privately. Having a community that meets regularly has been helpful towards keeping me accountable on the goals set towards developing a rule of life, and growing in an understanding of spiritual rhythms in community. 

    Tim, class of 2025

  • I’ve learned that God cares about all parts of life in ways that I did not think about as much before, even the mundane daily parts of our lives. He wants us to invite him into our places of work and redeem even the little things. …The GNP has challenged me to re-establish the importance of finding meaningful moments and healthy rhythms… I realize that who we are becoming is influenced by thousands of small decisions we make in our daily lives.

    - Luke, class of 2025

  • It's been wonderful to have a group of young adults who are learning about the same things, attending workshops together, eating together, and generally spending time together. …I've come to realize that sharing meals and conversation around a table should be a large part of our spiritual formation. Looking back on the rest of my life, lots of my formation has taken place around a table with other people. There's something mystically beautiful about that.

    - Carter, class of 2025

  • One thing that I think makes the Good Neighbor Project unique is that it is dedicated to the long, slow work of discipleship and does not attempt to offer a quick and definitive crash course in community engagement. As a metaphor, I picture the Good Neighbor Project as a plant nursery or greenhouse, giving us all a dedicated space to start sprouting the seeds that had been planted in us even before the program, in an environment to foster and nourish these seeds, so that we can grow into sprouts and seedlings who, by the time the program is over, are ready to be planted and grow strong in our own larger environments.

    - Laura, class of 2025

  • The Fellowship is a unique balance that comes from being not quite a full residential program, nor being an on-your-own virtual program, but being manageable for full-time employed young adults to still engage with others in their shared physical space. It has just enough structure to guide our activities together, while also allowing flexibility in how that is adapted to each of our personal lives and limitations.

  • I think the intentional inclusion of reading, spiritual formation, "class discussion", and engaging with members of the community/church body set this program apart. The lessons we were learning were demonstrated and practiced in real time in community, not in a bubble; seeing how different people offer hospitality, holding one another accountable to rhythms of prayer and scripture reading, and sharing with vulnerability.