Prep for Saturday

As we prepare for tomorrow, I want to invite you to come ready to abandon yourself to the discovery of "what's next" for us at the Journey. To aid us in moving forward in an accelerated fashion, I've asked Greg Russinger to join us and take on the role as our "Journey Guide."

What does "Journey Guide" mean?

Well I guess I could have used the more pedestrian term "consultant" or even one of my favorites, "coach", but I thought guide served better in that I'm looking for someone who has been down this kind of path before with other emerging leaders and who's creativity and commitment to Christ would be invaluable in our efforts.

So, come prayed up and ready to throw ourselves into the mix of what God is calling us towards.

Pastor D.

June 11th Meeting

We have a ton of people out of town for the meeting scheduled for June 11th. Since we will be spending the whole day meeting on June 20th we are going to cancel June 11th.

Thanks,
Andrea

Journey Meeting May 14, 2009

Summer Theme

Deliberate Simplicity: Less is More, so that more is better…

1. You can do more of certain things
2. You can do less of certain things.
3. You can start to do things that your not doing at all today
4. You can stop doing some things all together.

It’s not about how much more can be added, but have we gotten away from things we don’t need…

June 20th our day long planning day meeting event for leadership.
Adding some additional voices- Greg and Michele and possibly Jamie and Sarah Lenhart.
Location will be determined ASAP

Events we will promote for participation through the church along with the addition of city events different Journey leaders could take the lead on organizing and attending.

Dates of Buckman kids camp- June 29 – July 2nd promo for those who would want to help?

Buckman service day Mid- August

Bunco Game night/Mexican Common Meal- July 17th 6:30pm

River Day – August 8th Josh taking primary lead

Alpenrose picnic august 30th

June 1st- BBQ night, in Gym- brief worship, brief devo from Dennis

If you have a city event you would like to add to the list please post the basic time, date, location details on here and we will add it to the print pieces for the summer.

Thanks again to Monica and Jodi for the AMAZING meal!!

Andrea

Reminder!!

Here is the reminder for our meeting on Thursday night. It will be at Monica and Jodi's house. Dinner at 6:30pm. We will be focusing on our plan for the summer- mapping out what it will look like.

Also, this is the week our reflections are due to Dennis. You can email it directly to him!!

Thanks, and see you Thursday... Andrea

Summer Event Ideas

Hi there, just wanted to post something to add to our summer events discussion.

I was thinking that we could do more informal 'Journey Summers at the Park' (or something like that) at a park near the church. We could offer sports (for those that are interested in that), board games and food...perhaps once a month during the summer months.

These get togethers would not be dissimilar to our indoor summer events when we offered Wii, Bunko, etc., just outside.

What do you think? Or are we even starting to talk about summer events yet?

May 4, 2009 Meeting

Here are the notes from our meeting last night!!

June 20th- daylong event: we will meet at a local location. Plan to book out the whole day. We will be talking through concepts of vision and direction for the year to come.

Teaching direction for the summer….

Read through the Psalms and if you desire to participate in teaching along with Dennis connect with him and he can work to help make space for team teaching….however if you feel a pull towards one in particular Psalm or have an heart for one particular concept please let Dennis know ASAP- kind of a first come first serve situation.

Soft goal for the summer is to allow others into the mix of participation and service. Need to seek creative methods to engage those on the outside…expand our core group and expand the list of those who are serving.

May meeting will be at Monica/Jodi’s house. The agenda will be direction next 3 months….through labor day. How do we be intentional about connecting?

A discussion was had regarding pre service prayer. After some feed back it was decided that we would step back from doing fixed prayer during that time. For now we will be focusing more towards intercession and caring for current prayer requests.

Spring Meeting Dates

Here is an electronic copy of the meeting times for the next few months along with the date we are working to plan a retreat. Please notice the 4/30 meet will be at Dennis and Patsy's house and let me know ASAP about which retreat option works better for you. Thx.

No meeting Sunday April 26th

April 30th- Thursday 6:30 pm- Location: Easters Home

May 14th- Thursday 6:30 pm- location TBD

May 24th- Sunday after Journey- brief meeting if needed at church after service.

June 11th- Thursday 6:30 pm- location TBD

June 19-21- Proposed Leadership Retreat in Sunriver*
option 1- Friday night, Saturday, Sunday AM
option 2- Thursday night, Friday all day, Saturday all day


* Let Andrea know which retreat option would be better for your schedule via email i This weekend in July is the only available option until September- so we are going to do everything we can to make it work. Let me know ASAP if you are available.

The Transfer of a Treasure

I would like for everyone to take time to read 2Timothy 2 before our meeting this Thursday. Starting this month I want to work through this passage over the next several months. I'm particularly interested in how we might address Paul's directive, "And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men (and women), who will also be qualified to teach others" (2Tim. 2:2).

As you read the chapter look for the six metaphors that Paul's uses to describe what other translations call, "faithful" (NIV "reliable) men and women. That's what we are going for...how God can shape us to be faithful & reliable.

In addition we will be addressing

• Connection Groups (yes...we are looking at a new descriptive name)
• Journey visioning retreat
• Summer schedule

Don't forget to send me your reflection paper by email if possible (deaster@pdx4.org)

Pastor D.

We have seen some great ideas for names posted on the blog...but it may help to identify what we feel the purpose of our small groups should be...or what we hope it will fulfill in the life of our journey?

I know some great conversations have been happening amongst group members so give us your thoughts and ideas....

Monk Retreat Follow-Up

Here are some links and books to follow through on our retreat.

http://scdfa.org/les-freres-de-st-francis-de-la-sissies-hallelujah
You should start off by watching this and laughing until you are bent over.

http://www.annarborvineyard.org/tdh/tdh.cfm
This is a link to the "Divine Hours" by Phyllis Tickle. You can set it up to your time zone.

http://www.northumbriacommunity.org/PraytheOffice/index.html
This is the Northumbria Community in the UK. Their prayers are taken more from the Celtic tradition. The website requires a bit more navigation but it is worth it.

iTunes Podcast: Pray as you Go
This is 10-12 minute podcast that is offered everyday and includes music, scripture and guided reflection. It is run by the Jesuits in Ireland.

Books:
Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation by Ruth Haley Barton. I would suggest this as the best overall read for contemplative practices in our modern day.

Praying with the Church: Following Jesus Daily, Hourly, Today by Scot McKnight
If you want a good biblical basis and "how to" on Fixed Hour praying, this is the read.

Enjoy.