Gathering

So here's our New Year offering. Sarah and I are going to host a series of evening conversations on (re-)reading the Bible and all that that might mean, imply, demand, unsettle, rouse in us. Our emphasis is really on conversation, talking together about the subject at hand.

At the moment I'm anticipating eight evenings of discussion, the first being next Sunday evening, 20th January, from 8.30pm. I'm anticipating them being about every 2 weeks (and not always on Sunday evenings) for as long as we've got something more to unpack and explore.

If you're interested to this point, here's the skinny …

I've been thinking about having an en masse weekend away in Summer 2008 for anyone anywhere who's connected up with the notion of peace church somehow - a weekend for people from all over to get together and say hello to other people in other places who're similarly walking their faith journey off the beaten track. I've talked the idea with several people here in Brum and had a generally positive response, so now it's time to ask the question to others...

Fancy meeting up with other people who're connecting with peace church in some way? Up for a weekend camping in the country somewhere, playing frisbee, barbequing anything that doesn't move quick enough? Would you be interested in coming along?

A couple of years ago we here in Birmingham had a weekend away together in the Wyre Forest. It was a great weekend, but we didn't manage to do it again either last year or this.