Our Casa

Are we a homeless ministry?  Are we a house church?  Are we a weekly neighborhood block party?  Are we a place to drop off the kids?

Yes sort of.  We are inspired by Christ and we hunger to be obedient to Him to the best of our ability - regardless of what this looks like to the rest of the world.  His words in Matthew 25 resound in our mind:  "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat......"

Indeed, He wears distressing disguises. 

If we find Him shivering under the bridge in the rain, we had better find a blanket.......  If we hear Him crying out for care from His bed at the nursing home, we will do our dead-level best to respond......... If He appears to be lonely and forgotten riding the metro, you bet we are going to try to strike up a conversation.

We know that following Christ leads to crucifixion (Galatians 2:20).  His yoke is easy and His burden is light - but we are also told to take up our cross and follow Him.  At times, we realize we will collapse under the weight of the cross.  At those times we when forget to rely on Him, we rely on each other - and thereby we return and rely on Him moving through our community, His body, the Church.

For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.
But woe to him who is alone when he falls,
For he has no one to help him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:10

We live in community to hold each other accountable, to motivate each other to get up and pray, to encourage one another when our spirits are overwhelmed within us and hope begins to waver, to keep the faith when our minds begin to attack us with doubt.

Here are some links to folks who have inspired us in our quest for community:

http://www.newskete.org/aboutus.html

http://www.newmonasticism.org/index.php

http://lifegivingspring.info/LGS/about/

http://www.thesimpleway.org/

http://www.edenalt.org/

Please remember us in your prayers.

What is Casa de la Fuente?

We are a group of Christians interested in living out our faith together through the nitty gritty realities of being broken human beings.  We believe in radical hospitality.  We believe in audacious grace.  We believe that we are made of earth and breathe and we believe in caring for earth and everything that has breath.  We believe in mind-blowing compassion.

We are not there.

We fall short every day...but we help each other get up.  Through the One who breathed into our nostrils...we strive to live it and pray that you will join us.

We have Family Dinner at Casa de la Fuente every Thursday at about 7pm.  Open doors.  Give a call to let us know you are coming and we'll throw another hand full of beans in the pot!  713-226-7748

Celebrate Earth Day Under the Bridge with Casa de la Fuente

Hello Friends and Neighbors,

Come build community and celebrate Earth day with your neighbors in  Houston's First Ward!

Earth Day under the Bridge
Saturday April 21, 2012
3:00 PM - evening

We are right on the bike path - so you get extra points for coming by bike

Veggie-dog cook-out * children, elders and everyone in between * art * frisbees * dogs * guitars, drums, ukuleles