The South Jersey Village is a group for forming intentional community in the South Jersey region. We function as a meetup group at meetup.com, and come together as diverse people for the sharing of in person, intentional community. Part of our group description from our meetup page is copied below. Please visit our website and join us for an event! =)

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This is an open, progressive-minded group for those who feel cutoff or isolated in the modern world of the internet and geographic separation, and want to reconnect on a regular basis with others in intentional community, for the purposes of sharing food, story, music, conversation, play, celebration and loss, and any other element of life that can benefit from direct human interaction, which was once provided for by the village/tribe/extended family, but has become harder to hold onto in an age of geographic mobility and independent living.

This is an intrinsically and explicitly welcoming group, and is open to people of any age, economic situation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, relationship status, pattern of eating, etc...

Our events will be great for people who feel a need to connect with others in geographic proximity to themselves through a medium other than phone, facebook, email,and twitter. This can take many forms, including coming together to share a meal, a night of games, excursions to parts unknown, music, stories in the night, camping, pondering the universe over tea, roadtrips, walking, sitting together in a coffee shop, general silliness, what have you; but always in person, and with the intention to foster communal bonding in the physical place we share as a home, the South Jersey region.

Many of us are single adults living on our own, aren't affiliated with a religious community, work a non-traditional job, don't enjoy the bar scene, or have interests and hobbies outside the mainstream. We eat our meals by ourselves, spend lots of time watching television or on the internet, and see our biological families sporadically. Many of us get the sense that this isn't a natural state for human beings. We enjoy our alone time on occasion, but we feel a deep need for regular face to face interaction with other flesh and blood individuals -- That's who this meetup group is for. Let's get together around the village fire (literally or metaphorically as you like =) ) and meet up as people in a community.