June was a month off from both huddles largely in part because Jarred and I were getting married at the end of the month. With our new found group of 14+ people that were integrated into our daily lives, we had a lot of people willing to help out which meant that it wasn’t just the two of us that were busy.
Our homework for the month from Robert’s huddle was to do a personal inventory to see if being in the huddle was still something that we felt like God was telling us to do. He reminded us that he still really felt God had told him to ask each of us to be in the huddle so he was not expecting anyone to leave but allowing for us to step out if we felt we should. Jarred and I knew pretty early on that God still wanted us to be a part of the huddle.
One of the things that had started to sink in is that if we were just reading about missional communities and life shapes and not applying any of the principles to our lives, then nothing was going to change. For that reason, in the huddle we were leading, we were going to redo the shapes we had already learned once again when we got back in July so our only homework was to reread the chapters we had already read.
Largely because of the fact that we were working with the people in both of our huddles on our wedding, even though we weren’t meeting regularly, we were still seeing each other often. We were still able to do life together.
One of the many photos of our big day.
*Jarred and I were on our honeymoon at the end of the month so this story is second hand*
One of the couples in Robert’s huddle decided that the huddle was not panning out the way they had anticipated in starting out. They still really liked the idea of missional communities and huddles but were finding it hard to “do life” with the people in the huddle. They were excited about the prospect of starting a missional community in their area. Since there were many people from the church that lived near them, they could see doing life with a little more easily because they would have more access to each other.
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Rick, the husband of the couple that had started to become really good friends with my parents, had wanted to leave the huddle as well because his desire was to pray for people so he was more excited to see how a missional community could allow him to do that than trying to start one or be in a huddle for one. He didn’t feel God releasing him to leave quite then but eventually phased out.
The couple that left as well as Rick (and his wife) are now part of the group that my parents are leading that is preparing to launch a missional community. They are working on creating their rhythms and finding out what their mission-vision is as well as what people are peaceful within the church to the idea of missional communities.
As always, we would love to hear about what you are doing with missional communities in your context. Please feel free to share in a comment below. Also, if you have questions about anything we are doing, feel free to ask and we will get back to you as quickly as possible! Thanks for following along.
Love,
The Irby's
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