Here’s a quick update from the crazy life of me: (Thanks Mel and V. for kickin my blog butt)
* The “autumn that is” is getting close to the autumn that was… had our first snow on the ground this morning. Drove through a blizzard yesterday on our 13 hour drive back down from northern Saskatchewan to visit Sherry’s family for canadian Thanksgiving.
* October 15th is my support raising deadline. 33% is what I need to have to even have the position of “Urban Missionary” here. Whatever I get by the 15th is what the leadership here will restrict my hours to. ie: If I raise 1/3 I will drop from my current full time to 1/3 time and need to get a part time job, if I get 1/2 my support I can work here 1/2 time etc. I’m pretty close to getting the 33% now but this week will be where it all falls together… or falls apart… which I’m not scared of… well maybe a little bit… but I know He has a plan either way.
* The first event I led for young adults was a smash! We did a cafe crawl (my version of a pub/bar crawl). I’m currently pulling together a lead team so I don’t have to do everything myself and can get a little freed up from logistics to crank up the missionality aroud here.
* Riverwood continues to buck the local trend by growing. We continue to get media attention which has been really positive… apart from them latching on to our moniker as the ugliest church in Winnipeg. We have our first “third service” this Saturday evening. This will be a challenge, and hopefully a blessing, to the young adult ministry as we have to now work our Saturday evening events around this new service.
* I’ve also (after literally years of scheming and dreaming) launched an arts group here at Riverwood called “Render”. www.riverwood.cc/render First gathering went great… lots of hunger for this kind of artistic community here. Already had an invite from a new cutting edge local gallery to explore some sort of working relationship.
* Currently reading “Exiles”, “Breaking the Missional Code”, and “Art & Fear”. Next up is a translation of the New Testament based on bible numerics.
That’s it for now…
nooc
17 of us squeezed into a circle of couches in the loft of The Park Cafe. Sherry is on the left.
