Saturday, October 11, 2008 ~ 5-10pm
~ Chelsea
(Again, click on the image for a larger view)
Monday, September 15, 2008
Another one for the calendar!
Come check it out! Sounds like a fun community event.... and I am going to have a "booth" there for my photography (along with nearly 120 other visual artists), so please come out and hang out with us if you can!! :)
Monday, September 8, 2008
This one's for the girls.....
HI Fresh Grounds Ladies (and anyone else that you might want to forward this to)!! Here is a little invite to the jewelry party I am having at my house. Ruby is a friend of mine from our days living in Berlin (she and her hubby were there with the same company John works for). She is an amazing jewelry designer and I love her stuff so much. Her prices are awesome and her creativity is really great. She is trying to get her business going here in a new town (and new country for her - she is from South Africa) and I would love to support her (I know all too well how difficult it is starting a creative business from scratch in a new town!). She will be setting up in my house displaying all of her pieces and there will be snacks/finger foods and drinks available. Come just to hang out and "window shop" or come ready to get some serious holiday shopping taken care of for the women in your life! Or come just to freshen up your own jewelry collection. Regardless, it will be a fun time. You can just come and go as you please on Saturday afternoon, November 1. Invite your friends, relatives, neighbors.. I just need a head-count by about October 28 so we can have enough food and drinks for all! Email me if you have any questions! I have attached some pictures of Ruby's stuff - these are just some of my fave's and a tiny sampling of her variety. I think you can click on the picture for a larger view.
~ Chelsea
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
What if church were like the Colbert Report?
Bring Back the Young Adults and 20-Somethings (The Holy Hiatus)
What if church were like the Colbert Report?
Posted on: 06/08/2008
by John Carlisle
Imagine a typical Sunday morning in the house of four single, unrelated roommates in their 20s. All four grew up in Christian homes, attending church every Sunday with their families. All four graduated from college and have respectable jobs that keep them busy 45-50 hours per week, Monday through Friday. On this morning, the four find themselves doing quite different things. Dizzied and stumbling around, one of them wakes up and begins to nurse a hangover after a night of binge partying. Another leaves to go to his second job, in retail, because his 9-to-5 isn’t quite enough for him to pay off his college debt and pay the rent. The third begins thumbing on an Xbox controller, zoning into a virtual world. The fourth – only the fourth – gets dressed and leaves to go to church. Almost everyone in ministry will agree that there’s something wrong with this picture.
This troubling vignette illustrates a problem that churches have been trying to reverse for decades. LifeWay Research found that of Christians between the ages of 23 and 30, 70 percent “drop out” of going to church for at least a year between the ages of 18-22. A sizable number spend more than a year away. Common reasons for the temporary, if not permanent, departure from the Church include lifestyle changes and frequent moving; pastoral disdain or disagreement; and political, ideological and theological disagreement with church positions.
Justin Anderson, lead pastor at Praxis Church in Tempe, Ariz., makes a startlingly sharp claim: “Overall, the Church is declining and my guess would be that the decline crosses age groups.” Anderson says that most churches have failed to provide the relevancy in the Gospel to keep people, regardless of age, connected to it. But an emphasis on people in their 20s exists at Praxis Church. It’s a church plant of the rapidly growing Acts 29 Network, a group of churches that puts 20-somethings at the crux of their evangelism because they’re the toughest group to reach, says Jonathan Herron, lead pastor at Catalyst Church in Kent, Ohio. Herron and other Acts 29 pastors figure if they can reach this group, they can reach anyone – which leads to a logical conclusion that the 20-somethings are the toughest to reel in. ..........
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE.
Would love to get some feedback and conversation about this article! Feel free to get the conversation going in the comments section. Also, Justin Anderson, who was quoted in the last paragraph copied above, is the speaker at the next Men's Fuel Breakfast on September 13.
~ Steve W.
What if church were like the Colbert Report?
Posted on: 06/08/2008
by John Carlisle
Imagine a typical Sunday morning in the house of four single, unrelated roommates in their 20s. All four grew up in Christian homes, attending church every Sunday with their families. All four graduated from college and have respectable jobs that keep them busy 45-50 hours per week, Monday through Friday. On this morning, the four find themselves doing quite different things. Dizzied and stumbling around, one of them wakes up and begins to nurse a hangover after a night of binge partying. Another leaves to go to his second job, in retail, because his 9-to-5 isn’t quite enough for him to pay off his college debt and pay the rent. The third begins thumbing on an Xbox controller, zoning into a virtual world. The fourth – only the fourth – gets dressed and leaves to go to church. Almost everyone in ministry will agree that there’s something wrong with this picture.
This troubling vignette illustrates a problem that churches have been trying to reverse for decades. LifeWay Research found that of Christians between the ages of 23 and 30, 70 percent “drop out” of going to church for at least a year between the ages of 18-22. A sizable number spend more than a year away. Common reasons for the temporary, if not permanent, departure from the Church include lifestyle changes and frequent moving; pastoral disdain or disagreement; and political, ideological and theological disagreement with church positions.
Justin Anderson, lead pastor at Praxis Church in Tempe, Ariz., makes a startlingly sharp claim: “Overall, the Church is declining and my guess would be that the decline crosses age groups.” Anderson says that most churches have failed to provide the relevancy in the Gospel to keep people, regardless of age, connected to it. But an emphasis on people in their 20s exists at Praxis Church. It’s a church plant of the rapidly growing Acts 29 Network, a group of churches that puts 20-somethings at the crux of their evangelism because they’re the toughest group to reach, says Jonathan Herron, lead pastor at Catalyst Church in Kent, Ohio. Herron and other Acts 29 pastors figure if they can reach this group, they can reach anyone – which leads to a logical conclusion that the 20-somethings are the toughest to reel in. ..........
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE.
Would love to get some feedback and conversation about this article! Feel free to get the conversation going in the comments section. Also, Justin Anderson, who was quoted in the last paragraph copied above, is the speaker at the next Men's Fuel Breakfast on September 13.
~ Steve W.
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