Project i61

We help the people who are already building.

The bridge between people with a work in their hands and the resources, skills and friends that work needs.

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Project i61

Every town already has its builders. We exist so that none of them have to build alone.

Two people over a drawing on a truck tailgate
Sparks from a grinder lighting a worker's hands
Two men talking on a front porch
Old brick meeting fresh brick and new mortar
A timber footbridge over a creek at first light
The model

We don't build our own centres. We come alongside.

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Find the builders

Every town has people already doing the work. We look for them, not for markets.

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Come alongside

Skills, tools, counsel and stubborn friendship — for as long as the work needs it.

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Stay small on purpose

Small equipping stations change a town's culture. Institutions mostly change their org charts.

Adults in a circle of folding chairs under a tree
A covered dish handed across a fence
Two hands clasped over a workbench
The name

… that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord.

Isaiah 61 — rebuild the ruined places, and do it by raising up the people who live there. That is Shiloh Collective, across the field in Dawsonville.

Donated hand tools laid out on a weathered bench
An older man and a young man walking a dirt track
Modest brick storefronts on a small-town main street
An apprentice standing back to look at finished work
An open truck bed of tools at the end of the day
First connection project

Shiloh Collective, Dawsonville.

An equipping centre for young adults, built by hand inside a 2,800 square foot warehouse. i61 does not run it — we come alongside the people who do.

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Neighbours lifting a wall frame together
North Georgia country

Small, strong and local

One equipping station at a time, in the towns that already have someone building.

How we carry ourselves

Three habits, not a strategy.

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Hospitality

A stranger should feel expected.

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Gratitude

We build like people who were handed something.

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Generosity

What we help build belongs to its town.

Tools passed hand to hand on a job site
A live oak backlit at golden hour, shadow toward the camera
The family

Four works today. Room at the table for the next.

Shiloh Collective

Shiloh Collective

An equipping centre for young adults in Dawsonville, Georgia, built by hand inside a 2,800 square foot warehouse.

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American Innovation Academies

American Innovation Academies

A public charter school taking shape in Woodruff, South Carolina — trades, labs and a movement lab under one roof.

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Woodruff Church of God

Woodruff Church of God

The Woodruff congregation whose campus the academy is being built on.

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Still Water Pastor Retreat

Still Water Pastor Retreat

A quiet place in the pines for pastors and their spouses to rest.

Visit Still Water ↗

Building something in your town?

Tell us what is already in your hands.

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