DWCC (Downtown Windsor Community Collaborative) is a network of citizens committed to the liveliness of our city centre.
At our core is a faith-based community seeking to live out the example and words of Jesus. That includes neighbourly love, compassion, and advocacy for those in need.
We are not experts but we can be friends willing to walk alongside, celebrate and lament together.
Doing life together is key - whether relaxing as friends through the week; whether formally for supper and spiritual formation, or at the coffee shop, movie theatre, the garden or shopping.
Downtown Windsor is a community of close to 20,000 people living in comfortable walking distance of the business district.
Our vision is that renewal leads to it being 'a great place to grow up in and a great place to grow old in. ' - a multi-generational and multi-cultural community that is safe and vibrant.
Our vision takes a vision of biblical proportion and enacts it in ours.
"Old men and old women will come back to the city, sit on benches on the streets and spin tales, move around safely with their canes— - a good city to grow old in. And boys and girls will fill the public parks, laughing and playing— - a good city to grow up in."
(The Prophet Zechariah Ch.8)
MEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE - "RIVERS EDGE" is an intentional community house of up to five men doing life together. It's intentional as a house centred around developing rhythms of prayer, hospitality, and mission. Two of the spaces are reserved for men in need of a safe place to land, catch their breath and with the help of the house move to health.
Contact Bob for more details.
WOMEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE - (Spring Launch)
Three women are doing life together while creating a welcome space for two other women in need of a safe home, and good friends to listen and care. As an intentional community, the daily rhythms of prayer, hospitality and mission are core to the house.
We believe that faith and friendship are critical to the health and well-being of the City. It's the care and accessibility of friendships in walking distance that makes lasting change. We also believe that following Jesus' example of loving your neighbour, sharing meals together, compassion for the needy, especially enacted as a community is healthy for the neighbourhood.
That takes place in our Lighthouses, a home on the street which is a safe place to gather for meals, fun, spiritual formation and a launching pad for neighbourhood activism.
Currenly there are three locations in the downtown.
For one near your home call Bob.
Community Gardens
Located in neighbourhoods across the city centre, they are gathering places for folks to enjoy one another, meet new neighbours, and take back a sense of ownership of our good health.
Neighbourhoods organize and manage their garden; each person has space to grow the produce they enjoy and need.
DWCC provides some initiative and supports the leadership in shaping their garden.
To start a neighbourhood garden contact DWCC to talk through ideas and meet others who are a bit further along in the journey.
Community Houses
Finding safe, quality, and affordable housing is difficult. Our Community Homes are a learning, living model in doing life together that benefits the neighbourhood.
Nate, Matt, and Chris at the Rivers Edge provide a safe place for men to join them and set healthy patterns, friends to talk life through, and catch their breath. Rivers Edge is a community centred in prayer, simplicity and hospitality.
This Spring we plan to launch our Women's Community House. Modeled after the River's Edge, it provides a safe place for women to re-establish solid grounding, health, and hope for the future. Three women provide the core for healing through friendship, prayer, and everyday life together.
To participate in either House please contact Bob.
Adullam Cafe & Eatery (in process)
As a Social Enterprise, the Cafe provides a venue dedicated to retraining those needing work and providing on-the-job experience with networking support for moving into the marketplace.
Located downtown, the Cafe is open six days a week from 8am to midnite. Come and enjoy the good food and conflict-free coffees, live music on Thursday nights, and Games Night on Wednesdays from 6pm to 10pm.
Adullam Cafe website in the works at www.adullamcafe.com
Moving downtown might not be an option but being a volunteer could be!
Join a Lighthouse - Contact Bob tof ind an existing Lighthouse in your neighbourhood. If you live outside the city centre, you can enter into the relationships and participate in serving with a specific home.
Support a Lighthouse - pray regularly, provide frozen meals, and join the recycling network providing for needs such as furniture and clothing.
Begin a Lighthouse - If you're already living downtown and would be willing to use your home as an avenue for caring for your neighbourhood, contact Bob to learn how to start your own Lighhouse.
DWCC is funded by individuals and churches committed to the mission and vision of the Collaborative.
* Cheques can be mailed to:
DWCC 1005 Victoria Ave Windsor N9A 4N7
and made out to "DWC Collaborative".
* To donate on a monthly basis, please email us for a
Pre-authorized Debit form.
* Visa and Mastercard donations can be made through
PayPal through Vision Ministries Canada
www.vision-ministries.org/donate
Address:
DWCC / Bob Cameron
1005 Victoria Ave
Windsor On N9A 4N7
Phone: 519-903.7629
Facebook: downtown windsor community collaborative
Blog: www.bettertogetherwindsor.blogspot.com
Email Bob Cameron at:
dwccwindsor_gmail.com
Bob Cameron:
Tel: 519-903.7629
Ancient Future Friday Nights 9pm Central United begins Jan. 27th
There are six predominant streams of discipline in the 2,000 years of Church history. We think ours today is the best, but we can lose out on the Spirit's movement in the past by limiting our experience. So for six weeks we're going to worship together at Central United and explore those traditions while listening to the Spirit and what he is saying to his Church in WIndsor.
