Updates: Stewardship, ARC, Healing Prayer, Geeks for Jesus, OHC Website, OH MY!

I'm still really buzzed about the ideas the Stewardship Committee came up with. I was at a dinner party with a professor from Wycliffe last night and I ran the idea by him and he saw the potential immediately. In fact, David Reed and I seemed to eye-to-eye on a lot stuff about Mission and Ministry and the future of the churches. I'm anxious to share more about this project, but it's still too young an idea to expose just yet...

Meanwhile, some of my other projects roll on. Next week we have an ARC meeting to start looking at the physical space and making plans for transforming it. we also need to start thinking about a job description: "ARC seeks Noah." I know that the grant committee is only just starting to consider applications, but there is plenty to do even before we receive word. If we don't get the grant we can still start building the ARC, only it be a lot more difficult!

The Healing Prayer service continues to delight me. We had another first-timer today. The folks that have been gathering have been wonderfully loving and generous-hearted. I'm really happy about the vibe and the way this ministry is flourishing right from the get-go. It will be fascinating to see how the Mother's Group starts rolling. After that I'll start getting the down town bible study established again.

Geeks for Jesus hasn't had a lot of movement lately. I think we need to schedule our next meeting now that we are all through Easter. If we want to pull together a conference in the fall than we need to set a date for that and start planning. Not to mention fleshing out our Wiki with useful stuff!

I've decided that during my vacation this summer I'm going to go to Holy Cross for a few months and revamp their website. We are already having some preliminary conversations about what the community would like from the new website. Personally, I'm looking forward to adding more media. Randy has been building a very impressive catalogue of photos and several of the brothers, including the Prior, have blogs. So channelling this content into the website is going to be more about setting up structures than getting the community to change much about what it is doing already. My goal is going to be establish something that makes their lives easier and connects them more to the world in the ways they wish to be connected. Candles under bushel baskets and all that...

-t