Creative Revolution

We live in an era that has been described by sociologists as a Creative Revolution. The early part of the 21st Century can be described as an era of revolution much like the industrial revolution of the early 1900's. The industrial revolution marked a move to the cities as technology and factory labor drew masses to the urban centers of the world, resulting in overcrowding, poverty, crime, and other so called urban problems. Those who could afford it fled the cities and created the modern phenomenon of suburban life along with soccer moms and mini-vans.

We are currently encountering a return to the city and what sociologist Richard Florida calls the "Rise of the Creative Class". More and more people are active in the creative occupations, and we are not only speaking of artists, musicians and entertainers, but also doctors, lawyers, software engineers, etc. Those creative people tend to gather in large urban areas that are conducive to creativity and change, bringing along with their creativity, innovation that impacts society and ultimately creates culture. These creative centers of innovators and culture shapers include cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC/Baltimore, Raleigh North Carolina with its Triangle Research Park, Portland and Austin.

As a matter of fact, Austin has overtaken San Francisco as the most creative city in America. Here centers of government (Austin is the Capital of Texas), entertainment (Austin is nicknamed the live-music capital of the world and is second only to LA/Hollywood in movie making), High Tech (Dell Computers, Samsung, and various software companies are located in Austin as well as major gaming companies such as EA games etc.), and education (the University of Texas at Austin has nearly 60,000 students) dominate the sociological landscape and give rise to tremendous creativity and innovation.

We are dreaming of impacting our culture by reaching the culture shapers of Austin with the Life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.