New City Friends,
After ten years of fruitful ministry in Knoxville’s Old City, New City has entered a new season.
Since 1998, by God’s grace and with the help of an amazing army of artists, musicians, and volunteers we were able to cultivate a sense of Christian community in the heart of a struggling section of downtown among a diverse group of people. Long before the word carried much traction, our project was decidedly missional. For some time New City had prepared to relocate under a new name in the context of a new center-city initiative. In the end, and with a measure of disappointment, this move did not materialize. What has developed however is an abiding sense of a strategic calling to cast the missional vision that marked the Café.
Today, more than a decade since New City folk first walked through the Old City looking for a suitable site for the Café, our commitment is to come alongside local, regional, and national projects and help them achieve missional authenticity. What this means is that New City is now principally concerned to inspire the Church with a vision for missional living and equip God’s people to flesh out a life of faith, hope, and love as embedded witnesses within an alien Culture. Of course, an emphasis on missional Arts will remain at our core.
Significant changes to the website will be forthcoming in the weeks and months ahead as we unpack New City’s new season of equipping and encouragement. As before, we value your prayers and ideas for enriching the kingdom.
