A while back we met Christa Hillstrom at groundswell and then the sunday meeting. She just sent me this email about something happening in the neighborhood through an organization she is connected to called common bond communities. Here is a recent email she sent me…… How’s it going? Hope all is well with you. I [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Transitional Housing opening in our neighborhood!!
Posted: May 26, 2010 by sethmccoy in Uncategorized2
I just got this from David Janzen one of our guest from Reba Place a few weekends ago. This is the shared commitments that shalom communities make together. What do you think of these. I even thought it may be worth relooking at our covenant together and incorporating some of this language and ideas. What [...]
In a close race between me and NOONE, I have been elected to the Hamline Midway Coalition Board. This is the Coalition’s mission statement. The Hamline Midway Coalition (HMC) — District Council 11 — is a community-based non-profit organization dedicated to making the Hamline Midway neighborhood a better place to live, learn, work, and play. [...]
This past Saturday we had a short leadership meeting after meeting with the Reba folks. Wednesday from 6-8:30pm Seth, Tim, Danny and Natalie will be having dinner at the Thomas House with some new folks interested in our community. Budget: We are collecting and gathering the amounts committed. We will let you know after the [...]
Alright folks. Here is the first pass at my job description. What do you think? Thirdway Lead Pastor
We had an encouraging and insightful visit from the leaders at Reba Place. I am grateful for the time and energy that you all took to meet with them. Special thanks to Natalie who did all of the coordinating for the team, and for the folks that gave up beds for them!! One of their [...]
A while back I read a book about how people get along. One of the things that stuck with me most what what this author said about circles of influence. As people that follow Jesus, we have a lot of interest and passion in helping people change. Whether it is inviting folks to change [...]
I just got an email from Ivy who was a guest with us this weekend. I thought I would share her response from being with us this weekend….. My Sunday with your community was delightful. You folks (I like this alternative!) were the most welcoming, friendly community I’ve visited so far. And I don’t tell [...]
Today I wanted to shoot out an idea and get a sense of what you all thought about this. Soon a few folks will be asked to form a team that will being looking at and evaluating options for our next meeting space. Then I had an idea which is either terrible or brilliant. I [...]
We started off our meeting with listening prayer, and then read through the concerns that were written down on the previous Sunday. It was good to hear the concerns, and there were a few themes that came up. There were concerns that our community would get too big too fast and loose the organic, relational [...]
