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books!

kristinajura — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:04:03 -0500

Let's use this thread to post titles and any commentary/discussion on books that we've mentioned during our small group sessions. \:D/

Congrats!

DDDeGroot — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:17:21 -0400

Kyle and Teresa! Enjoy little Molly...Hope all is well...

Living Room Group Leadership Meeting

DDDeGroot — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:11:14 -0400

Hi All,

Just an update on the leadership meeting Jorie and I attended with other Group Leaders this past Sunday evening,

-We discussed the possibility of Dave, Bud, or William Vanderbilt joining us for a Q&A of all of the topics we have struggled with...seems likely for this fall.

-The Teams are trying to get more than one "Living Room" at church, there was discussion of 4 such rooms being created upstairs, of course this relies on funding.

-They are looking at new leaders for this fall in case any of you are interested in multiplying our group. My recommendation for our group is that we stay together however, So Jorie and I will not be recommending anyone from our group to leadership. We feel strongly the second year of the groups is when we begin to trust each other and the real conversations/explorations start occuring.

-The church currently has 17 groups! We all wanted to thank you all for helping make that vision a reality last fall.

-The Leadership teams are working on a more stable solution for Child Care. This is something we can discuss as the fall gets closer.

-This Fall we will welcome any new additions to our group at one time in September. We do want to cap our group at 15 however, anything bigger than this and we will not be able to form the relationships a successful group needs to create. At this point, there are 3 people who have been recommended to join our group!

Hope you all are enjoying your summer (And Jorie will be contacting you all soon about finalizing our Summer plans!)

-Derek

Summer BBQ Anyone?

AndreiPop — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:18:29 -0400

I figured I'd jump start this one since we talked about it during our last group meeting. What days or weekends would work for you guys?

Just throwing out a date, how does June 5th or June 12th sound?

Are we missing God's beauty?

AndreiPop — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:24:48 -0400

Kristina sent me this article the other day. I couldn't help thinking about it since then.

http://blog.longnow.org/2011/05/17/do-you-have-a-moment-for-pure-genius/

Are we often so distracted, hurried, or busy that we void our lives of the beauty right before our eyes?

Joplin, Missouri Tornado

AndreiPop — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:25:24 -0400

I think these folks could use our prayers as well. This happened this morning. Looks like a death count of at least 100.

http://www.digitalburg.com/artman2/publish/Top_Story_74/At_least_89_killed_in_Joplin_tornado_Sunday.shtml
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/joplin-mo-incredible-devastation-photos_2011-05-23

A lot of people got first hand video footage of what happened this time. Here's one I came across:

Lets keep the families and people affected in our prayers.

May 21st anyone?

AndreiPop — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:08:25 -0400

http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/proof/proof.html

I have a sneaky suspicion the world isn't ending in two days...

Summer Reading

DDDeGroot — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:24:35 -0400

As many of you vacation and read in the Summer- Here's a few books I have read this year that are worth picking up, that have a Christian premise.

-"11" by Len Sweet - 11 Essential Christian relationships, biblically based with examples, to a healthy, christian, and happy life.

-"Weird" by Craig Groeschel -Great Book biblically based on how if you want to follow Jesus you need to act strangely by our cultural standards

-"Simple Church" by Thom Rainer -Keep the churches ministries to five or so, and stop doing frantic million ministry church. Applies to our lives too.

-"Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family" by Patrick Lencioni -Lencioni shares fact based books by using a fictional fable... quick, fun reads.

-"Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo -Great true story about a pastor and his child's journey to heaven and back

-"The Search to belong" by Joe Meyers- Organic Community Discussion, about how churches do small groups- Dry read but great information.

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