Life together
Nobody here works for themselves.
We replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. It is not a slogan. It is the arrangement.
The arrangement
Out there, you were expected to be self-sufficient. You were expected to earn your shelter, earn your food, earn your medicine, and to do all of it alone, and to call that dignity. We think that is a cold way to ask a person to live.
Here, nothing is earned, because nothing is withheld. Your house is not a reward. Your meals are not a benefit. They are simply yours, from your first morning, because you are one of us now.
What is yours is ours. What is ours is yours.
Colleagues tell us the first half is easier than the second. It takes most people about a year to stop apologising for taking things.
What is asked of you
You will be asked to give what you can. You will find, in time, that you can give considerably more than you thought — this is the ordinary experience of colleagues here and it is one of the great pleasures of the place.
No one is asked to carry anything alone. No one is permitted to.
Belonging
There is very little use for the word mine in Providence. Colleagues arrive using it constantly and lose the habit without noticing. We are told this is disorientating for the first month and restful ever after.
You will not be lonely here. We can promise that without qualification, which is more than most employers can say, and more than most families.
Everyone you love is welcome to see it. Visitors →