Jennie Allen - Find Your People : Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

We know we need to do life with other people and have a supportive community around us instead of living in isolation, but we often wonder how when weve had friendships fail, weve been hurt, or we feel too busy to even make the effort. In Find Your People, my dear friend Jennie Allen shows us how to make true emotional connections with the right people so that our authentic relationships can be healthy for all.

Lysa TerKeurst , #1 New York Times bestselling author and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries

This book is a true reflection of Gods heart for us to experience authentic, vulnerable, and meaningful relationships. Through Jennies wisdom and practical advice, she shares how to overcome the common barriers that keep us from finding our people and pushes us to fight to replace loneliness with community.

Sadie Robertson Huff, author, speaker, and founder of Live Original

I cant think of a better book or message for our current moment than Find Your People. We are starving for community, meaning, and deeper, more life-giving relationshipsand Jennie gives us the road map to actually get there. This book is essential reading for our tired and lonely souls.

Jefferson Bethke, New York Times bestselling author of Take Back Your Family

Jennie Allen not only casts an incredible vision for true friendship and community, but she also leads the way by example. In an age when were tempted to believe deep and meaningful friendships are impossible, Find Your People is a timely, practical resource.

Ruth Chou Simons, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, artist, and founder of gracelaced.com

Deep community is the path to health, joy, success, connection. Find Your People will inspire you, challenge you, and encourage you toward the relationships you need and want.

Annie F. Downs, New York Times bestselling author of That Sounds Fun

Every generation must learn again for the first time that the fathomless ache we all experience is that of being aloneand that the trinitarian God of the Bible has come in Jesus to heal the ache and recommission us for the work of creating beauty and goodness in the world. For this generation Jennie Allen is the vulnerable voice we need, and with Find Your People she has provided a beacon-illuminated map that is as practical as it is inspiring. Read this and find your people. Read this and find the life you have been hungering and thirsting for. Read this and find Jesus.

Curt Thompson, md , author of The Soul of Desire and The Soul of Shame

We were never designed to journey through life alone. We need to be seen, to be known, and to belong in order to flourish. In Find Your People, Jennie Allen shows us how to build deeper, stronger relationships that point us to Jesus and help us live out our God-given purpose.

Christine Caine, speaker, author, and founder of Propel Women

Community is key to living a full and faith-filled life. Jennie Allen does a beautiful job of using her own journey to give us a vision for why we need people in our lives and, more important, how we can find those people. This book is going to challenge you to say no to the lies of the enemy and find what I call your circle of faith. Find Your People will inspire you not only to find those who will fight on your behalf but also to become a fighter for the people in your life.

Michael Todd, lead pastor of Transformation Church and New York Times bestselling author of Relationship Goals and Crazy Faith

I HAD A PANIC ATTACK LAST week. A full-fledged, couldnt-catch-my-breath, on-the-floor-of-my-closet panic attack. I havent had one in ten years.

I write these words with the rest of this book nearly finished. And yet I want to be honest with you: this is my reality today, after spending a couple years of my life living, writing, researching, and thinking about something that apparently at least three in five of us feel daily:

Loneliness.

I imagine you are here because you feel it too. That sinking feeling that you arent seen, you arent known, and you are on your own to face whatever difficult thing life is throwing at you.

I get it.

But Im convinced that feeling is rooted in a big fat liea lie that threatens to pull you and me into a dark place unless we learn how to fight back.