I got great news from Daniel Rappe that foolswork College Station was planning on their first gathering to be in the next week. Actual date and location are still in question but they are committed and have assembled a great launch team! Go Guys!!!!!
If you want to know more about foolswork at Texas A&M email Daniel at daniel@foolswork.org There is a website comming as soon as we have a few more details and that will be located at tamu.foolswork.org.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Houston Mosaic's Top Ten List proposal....
I'm still working on the wordsmithing but feel free to comment and add you notes.....
10. Conteplation - We need to seek our place of rest and rejuvenation in our hectic whirlwind lives we lead. This place is different for each one of us and we value this practice.
9. Art - We believe that Art touches out souls and if we are to gather as a community to worship we need the arts to be a light post along the path. Art open us to ideas and concepts that without which are unobtainable. Art is welcome in the community of Mosaic.
8. Music - If the really smart physicist are right, and they seem to make sense, there exist a relationship between the vibrations of the universe and the very existence of us. We choose to believe these vibrations can be interpreted as music and if we are to connect with our world and the creator of that world we need to express it through music. Besides David used music to comfort the ailments of King Saul.
7. Communion - We strive to be in communion with each other and as worship and celebration of the unique relationship we are involved in with the Creator through His Son’s sacrifice.
6. Hope - We gather and do together because we have hope. Hope is a thing that few people can grasp and even fewer understand fully. We live in the hope that God is who He says He is and we are not Him!
5. Love - What would happen if we truly loved others simply because. What if we were intentional in our communication, both verbal and non-verbal, in such a manner that others stopped us on the street to ask us what was different about us?
4. Faith - We desire to show other what we believe though our actions words and deeds. This is not an exercise but a lifestyle.
3. Houston - We feel this is our city and our place where we needed
2. Family - All of the people that we consider to be family in our lives. You might want to be forewarned we kinda adopt a Hispanic/Latino approach to family.... Once your in it is almost impossible to get out. (Maybe we got that from the Godfather movies :)
1. Relationships between each other and our Creator
10. Conteplation - We need to seek our place of rest and rejuvenation in our hectic whirlwind lives we lead. This place is different for each one of us and we value this practice.
9. Art - We believe that Art touches out souls and if we are to gather as a community to worship we need the arts to be a light post along the path. Art open us to ideas and concepts that without which are unobtainable. Art is welcome in the community of Mosaic.
8. Music - If the really smart physicist are right, and they seem to make sense, there exist a relationship between the vibrations of the universe and the very existence of us. We choose to believe these vibrations can be interpreted as music and if we are to connect with our world and the creator of that world we need to express it through music. Besides David used music to comfort the ailments of King Saul.
7. Communion - We strive to be in communion with each other and as worship and celebration of the unique relationship we are involved in with the Creator through His Son’s sacrifice.
6. Hope - We gather and do together because we have hope. Hope is a thing that few people can grasp and even fewer understand fully. We live in the hope that God is who He says He is and we are not Him!
5. Love - What would happen if we truly loved others simply because. What if we were intentional in our communication, both verbal and non-verbal, in such a manner that others stopped us on the street to ask us what was different about us?
4. Faith - We desire to show other what we believe though our actions words and deeds. This is not an exercise but a lifestyle.
3. Houston - We feel this is our city and our place where we needed
2. Family - All of the people that we consider to be family in our lives. You might want to be forewarned we kinda adopt a Hispanic/Latino approach to family.... Once your in it is almost impossible to get out. (Maybe we got that from the Godfather movies :)
1. Relationships between each other and our Creator
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The First Sunday
Let me say one thing I am as rejuvenated as I am exhausted!!!!!!
We had a great morning at the Alief YMCA. Rickie Bradshaw shared his heart on his mission and dream for the Alief area - December cried. I would have cried but I did my crying on Friday we Rickie and I spoke on the phone....
There were fourteen people willing to take a risk and get something started!!!!!! Including a very little one that was precious and was very funny. She would mimic my hand movements as I was talking.
Thank you to all who came and will hopefull make this a home for us and the friends that we have yet to meet. So what do you say - same time next week - same bat channel?
We had a great morning at the Alief YMCA. Rickie Bradshaw shared his heart on his mission and dream for the Alief area - December cried. I would have cried but I did my crying on Friday we Rickie and I spoke on the phone....
There were fourteen people willing to take a risk and get something started!!!!!! Including a very little one that was precious and was very funny. She would mimic my hand movements as I was talking.
Thank you to all who came and will hopefull make this a home for us and the friends that we have yet to meet. So what do you say - same time next week - same bat channel?
Friday, January 30, 2009
The dream for Mosaic Houston
Weekly Gatherings: Mosaic Houston
Arrive and you are guided to a parking space at a community building. There are tents and what appears to be vendors set up all over the place. Kids are bouncing on moonwalks and music is playing from a DJ. As you approach the festival you discover the tents are opportunities for you become more involved in your community, mission opportunities, and much more. As the service draws near, the activity in the main gathering room becomes apparent on screens and on the sound system. A comedy troupe (or magician, or musician, or video or or or... insert your imagination here) is onstage cutting up with the gathering audience. The tents begin to close up and you move into the gathering space and find the light mood of people talking and laughing and gathering as a community. As the comedians draw their time to an end the worship team starts the service in song and a whirlwind of music, drama, spoken word, prayer and more engage you and suddenly someone invites you to kneel with them and deal with the thing God has raised up in your heart. The music is back and you go back out to the world to be salt and light - recharged and rejuvenated.
Arrive and you are guided to a parking space at a community building. There are tents and what appears to be vendors set up all over the place. Kids are bouncing on moonwalks and music is playing from a DJ. As you approach the festival you discover the tents are opportunities for you become more involved in your community, mission opportunities, and much more. As the service draws near, the activity in the main gathering room becomes apparent on screens and on the sound system. A comedy troupe (or magician, or musician, or video or or or... insert your imagination here) is onstage cutting up with the gathering audience. The tents begin to close up and you move into the gathering space and find the light mood of people talking and laughing and gathering as a community. As the comedians draw their time to an end the worship team starts the service in song and a whirlwind of music, drama, spoken word, prayer and more engage you and suddenly someone invites you to kneel with them and deal with the thing God has raised up in your heart. The music is back and you go back out to the world to be salt and light - recharged and rejuvenated.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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