‘LIVING FLOW’ was birthed at the time of the 1970s Jesus Movement. Its founders were converted addicts from the Hamburg drug scene, who wanted to live like the first Christians. So they established community in a farm complex on the Lüneburg Heath.

They made contact with us in the late 1980s, having read Pilgrims of a Common Life. Their leader, Cornelius von Berenberg-Gossler, is a prophetic man. He has no time for pinktinted spirituality; it has to be ‘kingdom of God’ church, where members make their faith real by sharing their lives and goods, and by serving the poor.

However, over the years they faced many trials and common-purse living folded.

Yet after the night of sorrow came the morning of joy. Eighteen months ago, they made a new start in rented property a few miles away from the original site. Now there are 10 people of varying ages living in a covenantal common-purse community.

They have links with Uganda. They have just opened a community house in Kampala, where local members reach out to street kids. The community in Germany also imports coffee from the impoverished Bugisu region and sells it via mail order as a Fair Trade company.

In Germany, they are looking for bigger premises in the former East, where there is great spiritual and economic need.

So Living Flow is expanding. We share their vision, and they welcome our values and support.

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