So, a while back I was told by a friend (love you Betsey) that works in the national headquarters of the United Methodist Church to join a blog called emergingumc. So, I got on, joined up, and started a discussion that grew into great relationships. And now, they have asked me to be a speaker at a new event coming up in October ‘07 to speak about Organic Gatherings and how we are living into a “missional/emerging” way of being Christian. (yeah I know they have not met me so they might not ask me to do it once they do…but hey for now, as far as I know, we are still on, ha ha ha ha) So, here is the information so far and as more comes in I will post it here on the blog… please keep this event in your prayers….Oh and Merry Christmas! ——————————————–
The dates for emergingumc: a gathering are set: October 4-6, 2007 (Thursday evening to Saturday noon). The location will be Nashville, Tennessee. Registration will be limited. We’re still working on finalizing all sorts of other details, including price. We’ll have more news about that by mid-January.
emergingumc: a gathering will be:
eminently practical– you will share and learn what’s happening where you are and identify and celebrate many ways forward– or downward, or backward, or sideways
deeply spiritual– in worship, spiritual practices, and the disciplines of Christian conferencing lived from our postmodern context
institutionally challenging– the “subtheme” of this gathering is “What we want the mainline church to know about the emerging missional church,” and we’re looking to publish the presentations you and others bring to make your voices heard
authentically missional– not “here’s ten ways to fix your church and get lots of people to come,” but “here’s how we’re discovering and learning to respond to God’s mission in the midst of the people and institutions where we are, and here are some questions we still have”
But above all, emergingumc: a gathering is your event– an opportunity for you as United Methodists who are exploring and birthing the emerging missional church among us to
share what you’re doing and learning,
build stronger networks across the connection, and
amplify your voices to strengthen and deepen the practices of the emerging missional church among United Methodists in particular and mainline denominations in the US in general
So, mark you calendars now!
And keep watching for more specifics in the weeks ahead…
i took this video of halo popping a balloon from my birthday (sorry Alicia)…and man it cracked me up….he had so much for for the VERY short time that he had it….and before i took it away from him, heh…. but anyway here it is…and you can tell he loved it….
oh and the shift key is not working right now on my computer and that is the reason the only time you see capital letter is when i turn on the caps lock and then off again…and it is killing me so i will just go one for now…
——————- speaking of halo…we had his teeth cleaned and while he was under they took off his dewclaws i guess that is what they are called….well everything went fine until we got home and he ripped out the bandages…and then this morning i looked down and his right foot was swollen to 4 times its normal size and noticed that they put the bandage on his foot too tight…and then when we called the vet they said to just take off the bandage and continue to keep giving him his antibiotics and pain medicine…and guess what they never gave us pain medicine….so poor halo went without pin meds and a swollen foot all night last night…and that was after we went back to the vet three times to get a collar that would still fit him and be long enough for him to not reach back and rip out his own stitches…anyway he is doing much better now…even though he has that plastic collar around his neck that he hates…but the bandages are off, the swelling is gone, and he seems to be a much better puppy dog now…but he has to wear that collar for 7-14 days and then we take him back t get the stitches out…and still not sure how that is going to go with us leaving next Monday to go home for Christmas…anyway… he is much better and i must now go to bed for church tomorrow….. kutps….God bless yall…
here is a picture of halo looking at me through the book case before the bandages came off almost asking me to please let him rip them off….please daddy please….. —————-
oh and on our way out the door to go to the Friday night OG Tiffany’s new purse broke and so she had to give what was supposed to be a surprise Christmas gift early…i got her with my parents a seatbelt bag purse…and very cool…and yes momma and daddy he loved it…sorry that she broke her other one and i had to give it to her early….and then i turned on my tv and it looks like the blue cannon that makes the picture look so amazing ly clear and hd…is really messed up and i have no idea how it got to be that way…..aaarrrggggg….and there is no way that we have enough money to replace the t.v. so between my dog and t.v. and wife’s purse all breaking in one evening life is still going well, and we had a great time tonight going to the nursing home with the Friday night og and then everyone came over and had Texas chili and played the wii…well the guys played the wii while the women went out to shop, heh…. and then we now have 3 wonderful people staying at our house from their ski trip…and i am very tired…..so it is off to bed and work tomorrow…..so yall have a great week and i hope to post something before Christmas…oh and did i mention that my laptop latch is broke so it will not open properly…it works ok but is not where it should be…so i will have to take that in to get fixed and they have to ship it out and then ship my laptop to my parents house for me to be able to use while i am there….oh well merry Christmas everyone and God bless ya….kutps
so the last Monday night OG I took over my Wii to Matt’s house and my Wii went over well….so well that I wanted to show yall some videos of the games played….
as you can tell Alicia’s form in boxing is amazing…
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Christian’s form and athletic abilities are out of this world….. ———————————————–
here Alicia was told by me that I wanted to see some trash talking, but in the end she took it out on me, heh heh heh….. —————————————————-
here Matt and Christian have a Wii tennis volley challenge…tons of fun…..
yall have a wonderful night take care and God bless ya KUTPs….
