Yesterday we spent quite a lot of time picking up around the house and sorting things out. We sort of have our furniture in the living room set up – but definitely need some more pieces to fill out the space. Our friends Cara and Paul came over last night too. We played a new…
shopping… again
We shopped til we dropped… again. This time with my brother and then later my mom. Christmas shopping is officially done! We still don’t have internet or cable – and we are REALLY missing it. I’m typing out all of these entries on my computer with the hopes of entering them sometime in the future.…
spending the day with Babi
Today I got to go Christmas shopping with my Babi (Czech for Grandma). We have gone every year for the last… oh, five or so. I think this year has been especially hard now that my grandpa is gone – she seems to be quite lonely. I’m so glad to be back home and want…
domesticated
Brandon headed into Cedar Rapids to drop off his car at the shop (stupid check engine light) and bring a bunch of stuff from his dad’s house down. We are now closer to furnishing our big house! (if only we could sort through the boxes of memorabilia and clothes and books he had in storage…
shopping (from Brandon)
We shopped til we dropped with my brother Chris! Most of our Christmas shopping for my side of the family is done! We are avoiding unpacking today and instead hung out with him in Cedar Rapids.
move-in day
Today was move in day. We actually spent the night on an air mattress last night, all alone in our big huge empty house. While the movers came about noon, we had church members at the house about 8am – shoveling the sidewalk from the recent ice storm and bringing over tons of food. We’ll…
a few videos that have caught my eyes…
some of these are clips I saw, and others are videos people have directed me towards… i’m intrigued for a number of reasons…
attractional or missional? programmatic or project driven?
At emergingumc: a gathering we talked a lot about becoming, or reclaiming the idea of a missional church. There are all sorts of really neat diagrams to help visualize what this would me, but basically, in an attractional church, 80% of the church resources and offerings and what happens in the life of the church…