Our Mission

Our Mission

Our Current Mission is working with Highland Community Center to disciple, mentor, and reach the lost, the broken, and the seeking of Downtown Asheville.  Kyle’s specific role with the Community Center is to be the Spiritual Director.

As the Spiritual Director of Highland Community Center, Kyle’s job will include many exciting tasks. Yet, his main responsibility will be to provide spiritual direction in all forms of service, ministry, and missions started by the HCC.  This will have many different facets, but the goal is to help everyone who comes in and uses the community center to be able to explore truth, find Christ-centered community, and experience God through prayer.  In other words, his job will be both discipleship focused and missionally driven.

Discipleship is a true passion of Kyle’s.  Many have said that Christianity (especially here in the US) is very wide, but without any depth.  Along with Highland Community Center, Kyle wishes to subvert that critique by mentoring and cultivating hearts that are yearning to grow deeper in their relationship with Christ.  Along with other forms of teaching, prayer will be the main avenue through which discipleship will be accomplished.  As Spiritual Director Kyle will be in charge of forming teams of prayer, unifying city churches in prayer, creating and hosting city-wide prayer events, writing literature and devotional materials on prayer, and teaching and training the community at large on the life-transforming power of prayer.

All of this will serve the purpose of leading people into a deeper relationship with Jesus and creating an intercessory prayer community who is ready to reach a city that is hungry for a God.  We hope to fill that hunger with the knowledge of the one true God!

Being intentionally and creatively missional is also a passion of ours, and is something that will be a part of Kyle’s work with HCC.  In a place as “new age” and artsy as Asheville, traditional means of outreach have been tried and lost, and yet there is such spiritual seeking and hunger still present.  Along with the teams of prayer that are created, Kyle will be charged with creatively brainstorming ways to love and reach out to this seeking community.  Prayer will help us creatively seek God’s will and ideas for reaching the lost, but it will also be an avenue to connect people tangibly to Jesus.  HCC will have an active and open prayer room, available for anyone needing a sanctuary for the purpose of seeking rest, silence, and communion with God.  There are thousands of religious and spiritual seekers in Asheville, and Kyle’s new job will provide us and other believers with the opportunity to invite them into a space that is set apart and show them the “God of Heaven and Earth.” (Acts 17:24)

Highland Community Center

Highland Community Center is a non-profit organization committed to community transformation through mentoring and contributing to the common good of the city.

Current HCC Programs

The Prayer Gallery

Highland Acting Company

Elevate School of Life and Art

Financial Peace University

The Artists Guild

Champion- Character training for boys & girls

Garage 34-Community of Christian Artists

Local Partnerships

I Have A Dream Foundation

Manna Food Bank

Collision

WHY ASHEVILLE?

Asheville is a very unique place.  It is by far the largest mountain city in the state of North Carolina.  It has a very unique cross-section of retired folks, young artists, and hippies.  It is overall a Southern, Bible-Belt, Christian location, but it also very pagan at the same time.  In fact, Asheville is one of the most religiously diverse cities in the country.  There are temples and buildings for all types of religions; everything from earth-worship religions, to Wiccans, to other humanistic and strange types of worship.  In fact, some of these religions have national and international headquarters here in Asheville.  The young and artistic culture here in Asheville can also be at times very pagan, but people are also very open and seeking.  Many churches refuse to engage this unique and very pagan culture.  Some even refuse to go downtown at all, because it is too secular, profane, and pagan.  However, the thought of ministering to Asheville reminds me of Acts 17, when the Apostle Paul engages the culture of Athens.  He compliments their religiosity and openness to spiritual things, but desires to teach and show them the true God – the “God of heaven and earth.” (17:24) The vision for the prayer room and community center is to engage Asheville as the Apostle Paul would, being unafraid and unashamed of the gospel and providing a safe place for these spiritual seekers to learn about and meet the beautiful, holy, and only true God.

For more information about Highland Community Center visit their webpage www.highlandcommunitycenter.com, which should be up and running by January 15, 2011.