VISION: A network of like-minded Christians who meet to encourage, celebrate, act, worship, and pray together.
New Saint Anne’s will be personal and neighborly: The barbarians have overrun the gates, and we should already know the men we find beside us in the shield wall. Ideally, we live and worship and pray together, we know each other’s children, we laugh and eat together, we patronize each other’s businesses, we see each other’s faces, and we have each other’s backs.

TACTICS

• Encourage informal social gatherings such as barbecues, block parties, psalm sings, feasts, etc.

• Form multiple reading groups that meet in person and digitally to read and discuss relevant books that spread our ideas and create a shared vocabulary and vision.

NEED

• A means of connecting and communicating. How do we find each other? Once found, how do we stay together?

VISION: Strong Christian families that serve as the backbone of a local Christendom.

TACTICS

• Cultivate a culture of family worship and Christian formation within every household.

• Call husbands and fathers to lead and love their families well.

• Call wives and mothers to serve and love their families well.

• Reinforce Christian gender roles by forming strong social bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood. These informal fraternities and sororities should be oriented toward community, edification, encouragement, charity, and service.

VISION: Churches that proclaim and practice the lordship of Christ over every aspect of life.

TACTICS

• Identify and encourage allies in churches throughout West Michigan —  even in those churches whose leadership does not yet share our vision.

• Form decentralized “bands of brothers” both in individual churches and drawn from among multiple churches.

NEED

• At least one church in each city to lead the charge locally. A visible rallying point.

VISION: An unflinching public witness for Christ in every aspect of our culture. 

TACTICS

• Tap into West Michigan’s residual conservative, Christian capital by encouraging rank-and-file Christians to “assume the center."

• Demonstrate the truth, goodness, and beauty of “normal” Christian life in a world overcome by lies, evil, ugliness, and androgyny.

• Produce new media to spread our ideas into the local community through blogs, Substacks, podcasts, etc.

NEED

• How do we best awaken the “normies” and spur them to action?

VISION: Establish New Saint Anne’s as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a local outpost of the new Christendom.

TACTICS

• A leadership board to shepherd the work of New Saint Anne’s, prioritize and coordinate action among various groups, and safeguard New Saint Anne’s vision.

• Structured New Saint Anne’s meetings to plan and report on our work.

• A Protestant statement of faith to ensure unity in the essentials and to discourage infighting about secondary matters.
  Our coalition is for Baptist, Reformed, and Charismatic; for credo- and paedobaptist; for pre-, post-, and amillennial; for abolitionists and pro-lifers (may God break the teeth of the prochoice); for covenantal and dispensational alike. 

• Longterm: Fraternities and sororities that serve as spaces and resources for camaraderie, education, activity, and encouragement. Think of British gentlemen’s clubs (e.g., The Drones Club), the Elks Club, Moose Lodge, or Knights of Columbus — but dedicated to forming local Protestant Christian communities from multiple churches. Begin only with events, but eventually add owned space (e.g., a library, a bar and restaurant, gym, mechanics' shop, shooting range, etc.) and other member benefits, supported by membership dues.

NEED

• A suitable statement of faith: broadly Protestant and as ecumenical as possible.

VISION: A formal association of like-minded churches that share New Saint Anne’s vision for a culture and a public square under the lordship of Jesus Christ. 

TACTICS

• Resource and train pastors, elders, deacons, and other church leaders to inspire their congregations with a robust and positive vision of Christian cultural engagement under the sovereignty of Jesus Christ over all of life.

• Aim to be intentionally and generously ecumenical.
  The barbarians have already broken through the gates — now is the hour for drawing swords together. We are thoroughly ecumenical within the Protestant communion, and aim to be friendly cobelligerents with Catholic and Orthodox Christians whenever possible. If you claim the name of Christ, have been baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, affirm the Apostles’ and Nicene creeds, and desire to see the Lordship of Jesus in every part of life, we will gladly and openhandedly work together.

NEED

• A single, strong church that leads the charge. A rallying point.

VISION: A community in which more Christian children receive a Christian education than receive a pagan education.

TACTICS

• Reinforce Christian education in West Michigan by working to maintain strong homeschooling communities (including networks and co-ops) and embolden established Christian schools that are financially or institutionally strong but culturally weak.

• Start new classical Christian schools and bolster the existing ones (e.g., Libertas).

• Rethink the funding model for private schooling to make Christian education affordable for all families.
  Ideally this would entail recruiting churches to use a portion of their budget to pay tuition for local Christian schools, but other options should be considered.

VISION: Christian businesses that resist cultural pressures while providing genuine goods and services for the benefit of other Christians and of the larger community.

TACTICS

• Develop a directory of local businesses that allow locals to easily support fellow Christians (especially those affiliated with New Saint Anne’s) and to begin building a local parallel economy. Stop giving your money to people who hate you.

• Business owners would ideally be affiliated with, and invested in the success of, an allied church or the New Saint Anne’s network.

• Identify new businesses or markets of strategic need and potential for Christian ownership (e.g., an alternative news source to compete with the Holland Sentinel).

VISION: Local, regional, state, and national public squares that are governed according to Christian principles.

TACTICS

• Affirm the importance of political action, and especially emphasize the benefits of local political engagement — city councils, school boards, libraries, county commissioners, etc.

• Encourage and defend the right and responsibility of Christians to engage in the public square as Christians and to pursue Christian laws, ordinances, policies, and leaders.

VISION: An unflinching public witness for Christ in every aspect of our culture. 

TACTICS

• Partner with Christian culture-shaping events, organizations, and activities. This support should include financial sponsorship, strategic coordination, and other forms of collaboration.

• Cultivate the intellectual and creative Christian life by supporting individual artists, public thinkers, speakers, and creators, and eventually by forming local guilds that provide training and fellowship for Christian artists and thinkers in multiple disciplines.

• Organize and sponsor public acts of Christianity that push the Christian faith into the public square (e.g., Public Reading of Scripture, Christ is King Festival).