Sundays at 6 pm.

Here’s the video we watched on Sunday of Jeanette in Bolivia. Continue to pray for her and the volunteer work she is doing there at an orphanage for four months. If you want to contribute to the Christmas project (we are sending money to the orphanage she is working at in order for them to have gifts, etc.) please drop us a line.

This coming Saturday is The Freeway’s annual Christmas baking day. Good times.

Simply show up at the Goodyear’s place around one o’clock in the afternoon with $5, bake your favourite recipe, have a terrific time, and go home with an assortment of goodies.

Every year we judge the baked goods (I love that job) and give away prizes for the best. Hope to see you there.

Last night at our worship gathering we finished up our series on Ecclesiastes… six weeks in an excellent and thought-provoking book. Thanks to all of those who led, taught, and planned the various aspects of the gatherings for the past six weeks. This was really the first series which was planned by the recently formed spiritual formation hub. Great job, you guys! The hub works really well together… very creative group.

Here are the title images we used for each week in the Ecclesiastes series. Feel free to use them however you want. If you want a larger version or the Photoshop (editable) version drop us a line:

Our senior’s group contributed to this month’s art exhibit. Here’s a video they made of the process. Go senior’s!

“The renewal of the Church will be in progress when it is seen as a fellowship of consciously inadequate persons who gather because they are weak, and scatter to serve because their unity with one another and with Christ has made them bold.”

“According to our common proverb, a chain is not stronger than its weakest link. The aphorism may be true, when applied strictly to the realm of the mechanical, but it is absurdly untrue when applied to a social organism such as the Church of Jesus Christ. All the links were weak, yet the chain survived! Ignorant men and women, united in Christ, produced a kind of wisdom. This is clearly miraculous, but it ought not to be rejected for that reason, since miracle is intrinsic to the Gospel.”

Elton Trueblood
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It’s certainly not breaking news that we are having an increasingly detrimental impact on our environment – our planet, our home.  We all know how important it is to care for the earth by changing our lifestyles to lessen our impact.  However, finding simple ways to do this can feel overwhelming at times.

The No Impact Project is an international, environmental, nonprofit project designed to do just that: help us make changes which will lower our environmental impact and better our communities through our daily actions.

Following Colin Beavan and his family’s year-long experiment of living a zero-waste lifestyle in New York City, the No Impact Project was created. 

Online, you’ll find a week-long how-to guide to lessen your impact, and create a better environment.  You can work through the ‘how-to manual’ any week, but starting November 15 there’s going to be a focused week-long challenge.  Join with others around the world working to lessen our impact on the world!

Please use the comments section to share with us all how your challenges are going, new ideas you stumble upon, and reflections from a week  (or more?) of living with No Impact.

Individually, we really can affect environmental, political and cultural change.

We have so much stuff.  So.much.stuff.  Too much stuff?

What if … instead of accumulating more and more stuff that we might only use occasionally, we shared it?  Once-a-year-camping-trip-tents, a drill to hang one piece of art, a giant pot for a fruit canning experiment, specialized tools, bicycles, cars, time, skills, etc, etc, etc. 

We’ve created a simple way to do just that … share our stuff!  If you have anything that you’d like to lend or borrow, check out the share it board – it’s above the milk’n’sugar station at the coffee house.

Fill out a simple card & let us all know what you’d like to borrow or share with others!  Items, time, skills, etc.
 
In this simple way, we’re hopeful that this experiment will help us all share more and consume less.  Share it.