We are a growing collective of churches, missional groups, faith-based orgs, and community development associations which are rooted in the neighborhood and linked across cities. In the fall of 2008 a vision emerged from multiple  neighborhood-focused missional churches in Seattle to unite for the holistic renewal of their city while continuing to grow and multiply locally rooted church expressions. The Parish Collective is essentially a church network. For networks to exist two simple realities must be present: nodes and links. The nodes of this network are the individual neighborhood churches and the links are created in both individual and corporate relationship. Each parish church will commit to holding together four common elements that may dramatically change in expression depending on context.