Who wants Vaishnava Community this Year? - Who is willing to work for it?

I am being given a 3-storey building and wanted to know if there are serious people who want to work to start Vaishanava community this year! I will not take this on myself and so I thought to tell this group and see if there are enough people to pull it off. Thank you - Kindly respond here first and then also E-mail here as well. I will not take the building unless there is support. It is multi-zoned and in a great part of town - perfect place to house 10+ people in private housing and 10-20 dormatory style and will support varies cottage industries/businesses to bring in 10-20k per month for maintience, stiepends, or other projects, etc.

It is in North/Central Missouri. It will need alot of attention. I will try to raise the money for it, but it is such a huge project (from clean-up to re-building, to the generation of business, etc.) I cannot do it alone. Anyone who helps long-term will eventually get the right to on some level "own" one of the apartments as agreed by guidlines. I am very much into giving a place to live to involved and dedicated people for the rest of their natural lives so that they have security in life in old age in a loving, supporting community!

The building was made in 1914 as a high school. It has a huge gynasisum on lower floor, many, many classrooms that would be converted into living apartments with one bathroom per two single apartments on the second floor, and something bigger for any married folks which very welcome - this is a non-hindu Vaishanava community. no dressing up in Indian clothes and otherwise "strange behavior". A big theatre on the 3rd floor with a few huge rooms for a temple room! There will be theatre and concert presentations for the us and the public (it is a University town and some pretty hip people in it). It will house some gift shops on the ground floor and an 'arts movie theatre' somewhere to bring in funds. Plus a wellness center for massage, colonics, floatation tanks, and other things as people come in with their individual skills!

I hope this helps! When a country/forest center gets started then sadhus can live where they want with an eye to keeping everything running smoothly.

I have a house here to offer free room and board for sincere people who want to come from 2 weeks to 6 months to offer seva to start this oppertunity of creating a Vaishanava community that can be a place for all of us to live and stay anytime we want and do group sadhana, etc. I have a limited amount of time to get this together or the building will go to someone else.

Kindly respond soon!

Here are some pics:

I am being given a 3-storey building and wanted to know if there are serious people who want to work to start Vaishanava community this year! I will not take this on myself and so I thought to tell this group and see if there are enough people to pull it off. Thank you - Kindly respond here first and then also E-mail here as well. I will not take the building unless there is support. It is multi-zoned and in a great part of town - perfect place to house 10+ people in private housing and 10-20 dormatory style and will support varies cottage industries/businesses to bring in 10-20k per month for maintience, stiepends, or other projects, etc.

It is in North/Central Missouri. It will need alot of attention. I will try to raise the money for it, but it is such a huge project (from clean-up to re-building, to the generation of business, etc.) I cannot do it alone. Anyone who helps long-term will eventually get the right to on some level "own" one of the apartments as agreed by guidlines. I am very much into giving a place to live to involved and dedicated people for the rest of their natural lives so that they have security in life in old age in a loving, supporting community!

The building was made in 1914 as a high school. It has a huge gynasisum on lower floor, many, many classrooms that would be converted into living apartments with one bathroom per two single apartments on the second floor, and something bigger for any married folks which very welcome - this is a non-hindu Vaishanava community. no dressing up in Indian clothes and otherwise "strange behavior". A big theatre on the 3rd floor with a few huge rooms for a temple room! There will be theatre and concert presentations for the us and the public (it is a University town and some pretty hip people in it). It will house some gift shops on the ground floor and an 'arts movie theatre' somewhere to bring in funds. Plus a wellness center for massage, colonics, floatation tanks, and other things as people come in with their individual skills!

I hope this helps! When a country/forest center gets started then sadhus can live where they want with an eye to keeping everything running smoothly.

I have a house here to offer free room and board for sincere people who want to come from 2 weeks to 6 months to offer seva to start this oppertunity of creating a Vaishanava community that can be a place for all of us to live and stay anytime we want and do group sadhana, etc. I have a limited amount of time to get this together or the building will go to someone else.

Kindly respond soon!

Here are some pics:

It takes up the whole block and has 35-40K square feet! It is huge!

Nows the time to think about it, lets friends know about it! Its a great chance to have a base to do wonderful things in the world and yet needs "a few good people". Ask me questions, get involved...show some support and lets see if it is enough to manifest a wonderful center and other projects that will come from that!

We need people to help clean and fix-up the place and $ to fix the roof! If you can give one or both of these things - kindly respond ASAP!

I live as nearby as anyone, but I like to wear traditional clothes sometimes, so I guess I'm out

Which town in Missouri?

Actually, what kind of a "community" are you suggesting it be? I am not familiar with the concept.

Funny Satyabhama! Thank you for your response. you can wear traditional clothes of any kind really - from India, Nepal, Japan or Holland - the idea is that we connect with people and the community in a helpful unassuming way. Not as weirdos in a cult.
The town is 1& 1/2 hours north of Columbia, MO. It is a University town.

A community of spiritual practioners - part of the work on a cultural level will be Ecology and community service in some way - providing space for the kids with a dance/concert hall, etc. Some of the programs created will be an outgrowth of who is there and what they want to do. A Sanskrit School will be there and things written above.

Oh, that is a really neat idea. Yeah, I am familiar with Columbia- I have been there a couple of times.

Then don't come dressing like a native Dutchman..........

so come in the German "Black Forest-costume"...