Illuminators

This past October, First United Methodist Church in Boulder, hired two people: “Illuminators,” who live on the street.  They are Travis and Nesti.  The work of the illuminators is to identify the gifts, talents, dreams and passions of people who live on the street. 

James works with them as the “animare." (The Latin verb animare means "to give life to.") His job is to animate those gifts by connecting them with social capital, and inviting people to parties where they can fall in love with one another, and encouraging them in who they are, and going with them along the way even as roadblocks arise in the living out of those gifts.