ABOUT
Jubilee New Haven
Jubilee New Haven is an organization in the Newhallville neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Our mission is to to cultivate holistic flourishing in New Haven through spiritual formation, community-building, and economic justice. Our vision is to bring healing and Jubilee to the broken and unjust places of our city so that all people can thrive spiritually, relationally, and economically
MISSION & HISTORY.
Jubilee New Haven is an organization with the mission of seeking spiritual, relational, and physical flourishing through worship, community, and housing.
We started as the Borden House, an intentional Christian community and 501(c)3 organization in New Haven in 2018.
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Since 2018, we have gathered for hundreds of meals and prayer time, hosted worship gatherings that draw people from around the city to encounter Jesus. As we have lived out life in the neighborhood, we've also hosted gatherings alongside neighbors, planted vegetable gardens, installed a basketball hoop for kids from the neighborhood (and enjoyed many games with them), and hosted block parties with neighbors.
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In 2020, we realized that our hope of holistic flourishing required that we attend to urgent housing needs in our community: people were struggling to afford their housing, unable to buy homes, and/or living in sub-standard conditions. We felt the call to see our relational and spiritual work to be interweaved with work around addressing housing needs in our community. The theme of Jubilee animated this vision, and the Jubilee Project was born.
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In 2023, we decided to officially change our name from Borden House to Jubilee New Haven.
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So, today, we remain committed to those three core priorities--building community, gathering people to worship Jesus, and addressing housing needs--that all flow from the love, justice, and hospitality of the gospel.
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Our dream and vision is to see holistic transformation in our community as both spiritual and practical needs are met through the love of Jesus.
Unrolling it, Jesus found the place where it is written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Luke 4:18-21
