Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

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Here’s a primer on these relationships and how you can foster healthy interactions with your colleagues. We were stretched thin relationally, and as a result, we were also feeling pulled apart at the seams.

If you want to get into running or are looking for a regular, motivating event, then I’d definitely recommend giving it a try. He previously spent seven years as a staff pastor of Sojourn Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and is also completing his DMin at Covenant Theological Seminary. We are starving for community, meaning, and deeper, more life-giving relationships—and Jennie gives us the road map to actually get there.Now, I’m exaggerating a bit perhaps, but we introverts would like to gently petition that “pop-in culture” not become the standard for true community. Once you’ve signed up on Eventbrite, you can create an event, customize your event details, build your ticket types, and publish to our marketplace where a global audience of event-lovers are looking for things to do. This means communicating clearly what you need from others, asking questions if you’re confused, and setting boundaries if necessary. If you and the person you share your location with both have an iPhone with iOS 15 or later, you’ll share your Live Location – so your friend or family member can see your location in real time.

You can also share your location in the Find People app on watchOS 6 or later with Apple Watch models that have GPS and cellular, and are paired with your iPhone. Or, put in simpler language, we need relationships that are safe, deep, protected, committed, and close. Jennie Allen is the founder and visionary of IF:Gathering as well as the New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head, Made for This, Anything, and Nothing to Prove. It felt like she didn't have enough actual friendship content/suggestions so every chapter was a little bit of tips and LOTS of rep

I want us to trade lonely and isolated lives that experience brief bursts of connectedness for intimately connected lives that know only brief intervals of feeling alone” (xix). We have a unique opportunity as social workers to role model cultural acceptance and humility towards others. I stopped my self-sabotaging ways, but with all the positives, my friendships did change, and many fell away. This is a great opportunity to meet likeminded people, as everyone there will be into the same kind of things as you. We are starving for community, meaning, and deeper, more life-giving relationships--and Jennie gives us the road map to actually get there.

We look for our people at the gym, our places of worship, and — perhaps most of all — at our workplaces. Find Your People will inspire you, challenge you, and encourage you toward the relationships you need and want.

Whilst this can be challenging at times, these changes give us an opportunity to think and act in a way that can truly empower the service users we support. Understanding yourself, and how you react in different scenarios, will aid your responses to feelings of self-doubt. Jennie’s vulnerability in sharing her own experiences with rejection and other relationship struggles reassures her readers that we are not alone in our loneliness, our awkwardness, our anxiety, our failures or our longings but that, actually, we’re all in this together. Since God has eternally existed in the fellowship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to be made in his image means we are irreducibly social beings. There are a mix of local meet ups and group trips further afield, so it depends on what you’re looking for – though if you’re just starting out I’d suggest not committing to something big straight away.