FAQ

Often ministries are developed around target groups.  However, in a downtown environment, there are many groups of people that overlap in complicated ways.  The more recognized people groups downtown are ethnically divided: Latinos, African Americans, and Caucasians (a group which is often perceived subdivided into wealthy and poor).  However, within and between these groups are myriad subcultures.  These subcultures have their own values, ideas, and relational networks.  Among these subcultures are: Appalachians, drug addicts, homeless, refugees, homosexuals, intellectuals, artists, hippies, and young professionals.  In a close, urban environment, these separate cultures interact and form a uniquely urban culture all its own.  It is impossible to isolate one of these groups as a single entity.  Anything affecting one, will inevitably affect the others in some way.  We believe that focusing on a particular “target population” defined by one of these labels is artificial.  In part, mission is about breaking down those divisions, and creating new definitions of people groups based on the new adopted family we have, centered around Christ.  Therefore, instead of targeting a socially labeled people group, we seek a more inclusive target population, geographically based, which is downtown Lexington. 

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