This Charismatic Renewal began to get around in the early '70s and hit Augusta, Georgia in 1970. When it did, the Spirit led several people to begin meeting in the library of a local high school. After the numbers grew past 300, they moved to the cafeteria. The meetings were often long and lasted into the night, and many of those who attended them felt that attending the prayer meetings was what they were called to by God. God had called twelve people to live a deeper call than that which he placed on others; He had called them to live together the lifestyle described in the New Testament in A

Accept responsibility for community order.

As I stated before, this call is not for everyone, and over the years several full covenant members have left the community to pursue other interests and calls that they felt led to follow. The rest of us, however, are defined as associate members, full covenant members and underway members. These terms define the degree of commitment which each individual has to the community. Associate members have a less strenuous agreement than a full covenant member, but still agree to those things in the covenant. Underway members have been invited to sign the covenant and are undergoing courses to fully understand the agreements they will comply with and to understand the lifestyle we uphold. I am currently discerning whether or not this is the call God has on my life and I am also underway. Not all the youth are called or invited to be underway. To be called to covenant community is a vocation of sorts. It is like being married in a sense because you have a covenant or agreement with other people. Full covenant members have the deepest commitment to the community, that is, each other. This includes a financial obligation of 5% to the community for upkeep of the facilities and other things of that sort.

The basics of the life we live are well portrayed by what would happen if some loved one should die. For example, when my mother died there were twenty or more people at my house within moments of the news being spread. I never will forget saying the rosary that night with as many of my closest friends as could fit in our living room. The great thing about this kind of life is that you cannot fake it for long. Either you turn away because it is too hard or it grows on you because you grow in living it.

The men, in returning from their retreat, were well aware that they needed support from their families to carry out these leadings. They asked their wives to go on a retreat to confirm what their husbands felt God had told them. The women came home with the same leading and were fully willing to support their husbands in this effort.

The largest part of our commitment is that of being in communion with one other, doing things for and with each other having fun and growing spiritually. With so many people in the community now we have separated into groups as any large group of people does. In Augusta, there are four areas, area "A," area "B," West Augusta, and Aiken. These are broken down into districts, which are made up of support groups. Several families, households and singles form up these support groups. It is at the level of the support groups that most of the fellowshiping is done. Support groups get together usually once or twice a month and do fun things like having a picnic at Lock and Dam or celebrating the birthdays of that month. They also get together to pray and worship God at times and maybe do a bible-study or something like that. This is not to say that there is nothing done as a community; the community as a whole does the same things only less often and on a larger scale. The frequency of whole community activities is often heavily influenced by the large number of people now in the community.

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