Poverello Community

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Community of young people in Poverello, living community life, social engagement with men and women from the street and daily Taizé prayers. Welcome!

Geschiedenis

Are you interested in community life? Do you have a break in your studies or work and you would like to live something different and useful?
The Poverello Youth Community is an initiative to live as a community among the poor within the organization, Poverello.

We wish to welcome young persons between the ages of 18 and 35 who would like to commit, for a time, to a life of prayer, community life, and a social engagement with the poor, to search for the ways to live together, with compassion and intention.

Poverello, in 15 locations across Belgium, welcomes the poor for meals, coffee, and in Brussels they welcome many overnight. The organization and family is related by the attempt to truly welcome the poor. In many different ways, we look to meet people where they are, without imposing ourselves.

The Poverello Youth Community work within the community of Poverello includes cleaning, serving meals, and preparing prayers. The aim of the project is to grow in our understanding of how to live the gospel in freedom.

To live this here in Poverello, it is important to carry mutual respect and trust, to be willing to create life every day, to know that in giving yourself you will receive yourself, and the willingness to deepen your faith by ways of living and prayer.

Community life will be created and sustained by sharing of prayers, meals, recreational activities, and times of intentionally working through our thoughts on our experiences. You will be accompanied on this way by people who believe in a better world and who have their roots in faith.
The heart of our life is the prayers themselves, and our central mission is to create the moments common prayers occur and an atmosphere that others can easily enter in.

A few practical points:

The Poverello Youth Community is in the Poverello location in the center of Brussels, in Les Marolles. It is maintained by approximately 100 volunteers, coming for one or two days in the week. This house is open 364 days in the year. There is one day in the Spring it is closed for a pilgrimage to Banneux, where another one of our houses is located.
We would enjoy you bringing instruments if you have them.
It is not necessary to speak French or Dutch, but you must be willing to learn an new languages. Start now. It's helpful.
As a Poverello volunteer, your food and housing are free.
Please bring your insurance information with you. It is necessary and the responsibility of each volunteer to maintain their own insurance valid in Belgium.
Bring your bicycle and helmet if you have them.
Every volunteer in the community is given one day free in the week.
There are scheduled common activities to help build community life.
There will be opportunities to see the other houses of Poverello in Belgium.



For further information please email us: [email protected]

The current website is: http://poverello.eu/

Personal witness of current Poverello Community Project member, Andy Winters, can also be found on the our timeline. There is also a statement by Poverello's main responsible, Johan, which is in Dutch. An English translation will follow soon.