For anyone who missed it, we started off the year with a bang, hosting the community of Genesee for a backyard BBQ in September, followed by a similar party for all the Lutheran churches in our Palouse cluster the week after. Both of those events were amazing.
After catching our breath for a couple weeks, we're ready to announce some of the events for the year. We're going to break them up into various categories. Today we'll focus on small group meetings.
Getting together with a small group of friends is one of the best ways to learn about each other and explore our faith. This year we're continuing the Theology on Tap and Gospel Group meetings. Theology on Tap meets once a month, the first or second Saturday depending on what else is going on. We meet over some nice adult beverages and talk about an aspect of God, faith, or church life. Gospel Group meets on a varying schedule, announced in church and here on the website. Those folks take a look at the upcoming Gospel lessons for the next few worship services and help me design a sermon based on same. These events are open to anyone. You don't have to come every time; the group changes from month to month. You can bring friends. No particular level of expertise or belief is required.
We also have a bevy of topics for Thursday Night Study this year. We meet at 7:00 on Thursdays, beginning on November 7th. Each topic will run from 3-6 weeks. You come for that duration, learn about the subject at hand, discuss and reflect. At the end of that 3-6 week span a new topic begins. Come for the topics that interest you, skip the ones that don't. (Though in my biased opinion they're ALL interesting!)
We're starting out the year with a popular holdover from last season: Lutheran Basics. This was hands-down the best course from 2012-13. Some folks who went through it last year want to come again because we found so many interesting things! This course will begin on Thursday the 7th of November.
After that's done we'll have studies on parenting (and grandparenting!), aging, school, a more advance look at Lutheranism, and maybe even a book club or two. Some of these course may move away from Thursday nights, depending. We'll announce the schedule as we go.
This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as events and projects around church this year. Stay tuned for more!
--Pastor Dave (pastordave@geneseelutheranparish.org)
Lots of interesting events and chances to get together. I sure enjoy getting to know people better in a smaller group setting.
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