The Mustard Seed House (MSH)

1. MSH Advent Morning and Evening Prayers
   Download now this PDF including a new set of Advent responsive prayers curated by Christine Sine. Advent Morning & Evening Prayers. This are the prayers we are using at the Mustard Seed House - daily at 8:30 AM (PST) and 9:00 PM (PST). Download them and pray with us.       
2. Disco Lives on at the Mustard Seed House
   For Catie's birthday party, we asked friends and family that gifts were not necessary, that it was just a time to celebrate Catie. But as you know there are always people who want to bring gifts, so we asked them to bring creative and homemade ones. Matthew, one of Catie's friends, made her this [...]
3. Discernement at the Mustard Seed House
   Sunday night we started a series of discernment sessions with the Mustard Seed House community to work out how we can put our MSA rule of life into practice.  Over the next few months we plan to use this process to flesh out the shape of not just our community life but our personal disciplines [...]
4. “those people”
   By Joy Elizabeth Cross   they moved down the street. they bring crime they bring garbage they lower the value of my house. "I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one [...]
5. Legal Counsel needed at Nickelsville
   The friends of Nickelsville - a homeless camp in Seattle - are in dire need of Legal Counsel and/or Representation. If you are interested to show your solidarity and support or know of someone whom might, contact Dustin Cross at 318-349-6535 or bro_cross@yahoo.com WHAT IS NICKELSVILLE? Nickelsville is a permanent homeless shantytown in Seattle WA which will [...]
6. Donations Neeeded at Nickelsville Homeless Camp in Seattle, WA
   Contact info: www.nickelsvilleseattle.org alexl@nickelsvilleseattle.org Phone: (206) 888 8051 Mailing address: Meeting Location: 1902 Second Avenue (& Stewart) Read more about it their situation at Christine's blog.       
7. Help Make the Invisible Visible
   From Christine Last night Dustin Cross who lives in the basement apartment at the Mustard Seed House came to see me. He was very agitated because he had just returned from a meeting about the Nickelsville, the camp for homeless people built at 7115 West Marginal Way SW here in Seattle. This camp is [...]
8. Welcoming the harvest
   From our garden and 3 apple trees. Harvested in just a couple hours in the afternoon.       
9. Interview with Catie, 5yrs old communitarian at MSH
   Last month I (Eliacin) interviewed Catie for the MSA Seed Sampler issue on Living Simply with Kids. I asked her thoughts on why she lives in community and the importance of gardening. It's pretty insightful and very funny.  Listen here.
10. Race and New Monasticism
    This is a post I (Eliacin) wrote for God's Politics blog as my contribution to the current conversation on Racial Reconciliation Challenge to New Monasticism initiated by Jason and Vonetta Storbakken from Radical Living Community in NYC. What I wrote may sting a bit, this kind of stuff always do. So I am expecting some heat [...]