U40 Meeting - Feb 16, 2008
Hey Folks,
Just a reminder of our next U40 meeting next Saturday, Feb 16th. We will be meeting once again on campus at Point Loma Nazarene University from 9am to 2:00pm.
In the time since we last met conversations around who we are have continued to affirm the central reasons for our continued gathering:
- We want to be participating in God’s Kingdom agenda together
- We want to be fostering missional leaders for the church
- We want to be learning, growing, exploring, dreaming and reimagining
- We want to be networking and developing partnerships, collaborations and alliances.
In our next meeting, tentative plans have us continuing our fellowship in smaller groups around several topics:
- A short description of how the language of a covenant community or an “order” is being used recently in conjunction with U40. Might this be a way to think of what we are about?
- Small group discovery around various metaphors found in scripture to refer to God’s people (ie: church, body, family, etc.) Bring your bibles.
- As we have usually done some learning around different facets of what Kingdom calls us to, I’ve asked Yucan Chiu of Ethnos Church to share a few thoughts on cultural and socioeconomic diversity as a reflection of Kingdom. My friend and CRM colleague Craig Hendrickson may be joining us from Long Beach with similar expertise.
- I’d love for us to spend time in prayer for San Diego and Tijuana.
So, get the word out. Invite other like-minded, missional friends that would be blessed to join us as we learn to represent the Kingdom together.
Date: Saturday, Feb 16th
Time: 9am - 2pm
Place: Point Loma Nazarene University at the Fermanian Business Center.
Directions: here.
U40 Annotated Campus Map: here.
Cost: $10 to cover lunch and coffee
RSVP: Please let me know if you are coming so we can coordinate food and such. geoff [at] thehsus [dot] com. Or RSVP via Facebook.
If you want to read ahead:
- My book report on “Divided by Faith.” - Written for a class, it hits a few key ideas behind this great thought-provoking book. Written in 2005 while still on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ.
Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America - On pp 201 - 214, Roxburgh diagrams a suggested structure for missional communities that we’ll look at briefly. I’d buy the book simply for the treatment of “Kingdom.”
That should do it for now.
Geoff