Dear friends,
I am writing this as I reflect back on our gathering this past Sunday night. It was a “family time” for thoughtful consideration of how we might morph our structured times together to continue to be more and more of a reflection of who we are as a community.
One of our shared desires continuing to shape us as a Christ-commons is that we make our connections with God, with people, and with creation an integral sustaining part of our lives… individually and collectively. The vision of our life-together has never been about Sunday nights, and we desire to try and focus on the relationships that we have, to take initiative and listen to the God promptings in our lives on a daily and weekly basis as the root of our connection time. Yet in recent months we have sensed a growing dependence coupled with a degree of unhealthy constraint on our monthly rhythm.
As we talked together on Sunday night we decided to bring freedom in our schedules and begin to bring greater focus on connecting in relational groups by altering the rhythm of our gatherings to meeting once a month. Therefore, going forward we will meet at the Friesen house on the 2nd Sunday of the month.
For the next six months we will gather once each month. After six months we will reassess.
This change, like all changes, holds great possibilities and great challenges. The possibilities of creating more space in our lives for enlarging our social networks and living responsively to the relational promptings of the Holy Spirit is huge, and the challenge of the possibility that some within our relational sphere may feel a relational crisis (of sorts) is almost inevitable.
I will be sending out invitations to join the Quest blog. So that you can easily post invitations, questions, thoughts, highlight other faith communities, events, books, resources, etc. If for some reason that email invite doesn’t get through to you please let me know.
This is a significant transition and I know that not everyone who would have liked to be in on that conversation was present, so please talk with myself or others who were there. I believe this is an opportunity for our community to live into relationships and mission with freshness and life.
Peace, dwight
