Bill Word's home was purchased in February 2008. Bill considered that the house was a present from the Lord so he gave it back to the Lord asking what did He want to name the house. Next Bill asked God what He wanted to reside with the house as a relevant, life presence.

     The name "Aerie" means an eagle's nest. What is an eagle's nest? An eagle's nest is a high, hidden, safe cleft in the rock, a community of spiritual ASASfollowers of Jesus who worship, pray, and impart and deploy.

The Aerie Community & Its Three Houses

     Inquiring of the Lord what He purposed to reside here, how He wants to occupy the house yeilded inspiring answers. Three ASSAApictures came to mind. In composite perspective a fourth impression came to mind.

     The scripture that brought clarity is from 1 Peter 2:5, Present yourselves as building stones for the construction of a sanctuary vibrant with life, in which you’ll serve as holy priests offering Christ-approved lives up to God.

     We are not organized yet in a legal sense, but we are formed in fellowship and purpose. In particular we have assumed a care for worship in our region as The Worship Roundtable.

The Aerie Community was born.

House 1. A Kingdom Embassy

     First came a picture of the house as A Kingdom Embassy. An embassy in the natural sense is a two function house: a safe place for the citizens of the domain it represents and a place where the affairs of State for the domain it represents are conducted. It will only take a little explanation to understand why the next scripture explains The Aerie as a Kingdom Embassy.

     Mark 11:17, Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’?...’"

     In Matthew 25 Jesus cleansed the Temple of money changers, peddlers and crooks saying that His Father's house is a house of prayer. Prayer is two way communication with God from His courtroom of Eternity. Prayer is the accesss protocol of our fellowship with Him. His business with us and ours with Him is transacted in the movements of this living relationship. If those movements constitute the conduct of the State affairs of heaven, then this house is a recognizable Kingdom Embassy.

     Everyone who enters here by the door is safe. Every Kingdom Ambassadior, regardless of Nation, Tribe, Tongue or People has access here to the territories we are responsible for in the Coastal Bend region of Texas. Many such Ambassadors assemble and seek God here.

A Kingdom Embassy was born.

House 2. A Kingdom Outpost

     Next came a picture of the house as A Kingdom Outpost. An outpost is a place where savvy and sense and sober love are provided. The picture that gave clarity was of a wagon heading west which had come to the last trading post.

     Matthew 28:19  "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
     Matthew 28:20  "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

     The trading post had goods of all kinds. It had horses, wagon axles, wheels, tongues, leather tack, horseshoes, fabrics, guns, bullets and food stuffs. But none of the merchandise was as valuable as that which was in the head of trading post's proprietor. The proprietor had savvy and sober advice if the settlers would have it.

     The trading post proprietor has been further west than the site where he built the trading post. He knows the Indians, both cannibals and friendliest who could offer further guidance. He knew where the good river crossings are and the best mountain passes. He knows the seasons; when the rivers flood, when snow blocks the mountain passes. He knows where good hunting is and where safe camping is.

     These things he learned by experience. Now he has real prizes to offer his visitors.

     In the same way God has purposed to populate The Aerie with wise and caring forerunners and to bring spiritual travels and followers through. The seasoned forerunners will offer relationship and savvy and sober love to those who stay nearby and to those who are moving on.

A Kingdom Outpost was born.

House 3. A Kingdom Conservatory of Music and Worship

     A conservatory in the Kingdom of God is unique, but similar to the other houses of The Aerie. The unique part is the function that relates to music. The similarity is the purpose to impart and imprint upon others another of the movements of worship; music as a vehicle of praise, even high praises to Father God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

     John 4:23  "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

     This Kingdom Conservator has two commissions.

• 1. To impart the movements of musical praise as a vehicle for worship.
• 1a. To interpret worship as fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus. (I John 1: 1 - 4).
• 2. To deploy or propagate musical praise as a vehicle for worship and to deploy the interpretation of worship as a lifestyle.

     Implicit in these two commissions is to give grounding in fellowship with the Father and with Jesus, the substance of worship which God seeks (see John 4:23 above.

A Kingdom Conservatory was born.