What is The Center for Arts, Entertainment and Community?

Who we areThe HOUSE: Center for Arts, Entertainment and Community, is intended to be a multi-purpose, creative and experimental facility including all-purpose rooms suitable for Bible studies, prayer, recreation, conferences, banquets, businesses, Community Ed. Classes, discipleship classes, multiple simultaneous worship services. As well as places for retail businesses, including a Coffee House, a Night Club, an Arts and Entertainment Center, recording studios, performance stages, meeting and conference rooms, rehearsal space, green rooms, restaurants, book store, arts and crafts galleries and co-ops, children's play and teen areas, wired & wireless internet access. The HOUSE is intended to be foremost a PLACE where all people (including Christians) can come together for spiritual, social and educational growth. The HOUSE overall structure has no comparable examples to follow other than municipal community centers which do not have a purpose of reaching people for eternity and which are legally prevented from having an evangelistic focus. Some aspects of The HOUSE have comparable examples, but none match The HOUSE as a unified whole.Christian coffee houses exist, youth centers exist, Christian bookstores and businesses, as well. There is Christian nightclub in our hometown, for example, serving the Minneapolis downtown and the North Metro bringing in headliners and national acts, using paid and volunteer staff. They encourage and promote, but are not corporately involved with compassion ministries, or as a venue for non-headline talent. Other than churches and small youth centers, there are no other venues to showcase developing Christian talent, and the Twin Cities are known worldwide for their music and arts scene. It is our intent to provide these services and much more, in The HOUSE, making it a community resource. The goal of being a Center for Arts and Entertainment of all kinds (including for Christians), while also offering a family-friendly resource as a full-service community center, is our focus. We also seek to provide business and retail space for Christian companies and entrepreneurs, given them an opportunity to partner with others who share a similar vision of and message of Jesus in everyday, practical ways.