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What is The Ecotone Project?
In the Simplest terms, it is a love story. It is a collection of individual expressions of God’s love at work in our lives, that combine to offer a glimpse of the larger narrative of Jesus’ amazing grace, mercy, and love.
Why?
Our desire is to share the love of Jesus with whoever is interested. Our hope is that this site will be a mosaic or collage, that reveals a little of who God is.
Anyone who loves Jesus and wants to share a little of their journey. Please consider sharing part of your story with us. All submissions are greatly appreciated and helpful. Click here for more info.
What is an Ecotone?
Ecotone is defined as: a region of transition between two biological communities. After coming across this term we did some research and found that as the two communities collide, an ecotone can become a place of abundant life and abundant death. We think this imagery is a potent metaphor of the Kingdom journey. As the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of self collide in our personal relationships with Jesus, a spiritual ecotone emerges. A place of transition between brokenness and wholeness, death and life.
What is a Living Mosaic?
A mosaic is a picture that is made up of many small or even tiny pieces. Each small piece has its unique size, shape, color and so on. You might say each piece is a work of art on its own, however, when an artist combines these diverse pieces—from vibrant to dull, sharp to smooth—a picture begins to form. It is our hope for The Ecotone Project that the collection of experiences contributed by you and others like you, will be living pieces that can combine into a picture of love, mercy, grace and redemption, with Jesus as the artist.
A man named Henri Nouwen once likened community to a mosaic, and our hope is that The Ecotone Project will be a community of our experiences. Here is what Henri said: “Community is like a large mosaic. Each little piece seems so insignificant. One piece is bright red, another cold blue or dull green, another warm purple, another sharp yellow, another shining gold. Some look precious, others ordinary. Some look valuable, others worthless. Some look gaudy, others delicate. As individuals stones, we can do little with them except compare them and judge their beauty and value. When, however, all these little stones are brought together in one big mosaic portraying the face of Christ, who would ever question the importance of any one of them? If one of them, even the least spectacular one, is missing, the face is incomplete. Together in the one mosaic, each little stone is indispensable and makes a unique contribution to the glory of God. That’s community, a fellowship of little people who together make God visible in the world.”
