This is the first blog I write in "real time" pervious to now, it has been a summary of where we've been with a pretty good idea of what had happened next. If the tone changes at all, that's why.
Jarred and I weren't quite ready to start our rhythms after our brief break in July so we decided to wait until September to start figuring them out. By the end of the month, we knew we wanted to be spending more time with the Goldsteins as we transitioned to them being the spiritual parents of our MC. We also knew we wanted to see Courtney more because she had continually showed herself as a person of peace to us and we wanted to invest in her because of that.
Most of our rhythms were getting established around food. In order to see Courtney more, we decided we would start inviting her to our morning breakfasts on the morning she would be getting off of work. We had also been trying to make our meals for the week on Saturday so we are going to invite people to join us to get some cooking done and hang out time in.
We officially got the building for the deli/bakery in August so although there are no firm plans for how to get a consistent rhythm with working on that, it is very exciting and something we are looking forward to figuring out. That will be a major contributor to spending intentional time with the Goldsteins. We know we have to be careful to get covenant time in too so it's not all work, work, work.
Katy and Jon in front of the bakery.
Katy and Jon decided to start family dinners in August so our MC got back into the rhythm of dinners once every other week. At our first dinner we met together with the core people to talk about what our mission-vision might be. It was decided that we would focus on the LGBT community because that seemed to be who we were attracting.
Our second dinner we opened it up to invite people we had met at the block party. We had 6 new neighbors show up. All the people that showed up were church going people. They were excited about what we were doing and started becoming consistent (so far).
Through the new people we met at family dinners, Jarred and I found another thing to start inviting people into. We got cable which meant access to AMC which meant "Fear the Walking Dead" and "The Walking Dead". There is not a shortage of people who don't have cable but want to be current with those shows so we obliged. Each episode we have had more people come over than the last. It has been a blast.
As we look forward into September we are excited about a few things. First, there is a pilgrimage coming up of 3DM and TOM members and we can't wait to see some friends and family again. Secondly, Jarred and I signed up for the Vineyard's Residency+ to prepare for church planting. Finally, we are eager to start getting into some rhythms.
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