Network is a hospitality house supporting our unhoused neighbors where the dignity of all people is clearly affirmed, mutual kinship is encouraged, and healing becomes possible. Aside from the bell bottoms, mullets, and mustaches Network doesn’t appear much different today than it did when good friends began gathering for prayer on the streets of the Capitol Hill neighborhood back in 1978.
Under the leadership of our founder, John Hicks, Network eventually moved off the streets and into a building. These days Network functions as a dynamic hub for spiritual formation in the way of Christ. Under the ongoing guise of a coffee house our hope is to invite those who struggle with homelessness and chronic loneliness into a beloved community. Since that loneliness thing is not confined to the materially poor, all our guests, staff, and volunteers alike show up here to experience the companionship of God through friendship as well as for an authentic outlet of active compassion.
Together we’re discovering what it means to be made in the image of God. And that we’re not nearly as alone and separate as we sometimes think.
