A part of being known extends to engaging with those around us. We are - only in relationship. The vast network of beings in the cosmos make up the constellation of connectedness. This summer we explore rhythms of vast connections as we disrupt the familiar rhythms established within the walls of weekly Gathering spaces. We move our feet as political acts - in the polis, or cosmos - in everyday life.
WEEK BY WEEK:
CONNECTING THE DOTS
May 26th: Memorial Day weekend Brunch
June 2: Baptism and Family Covenants Sunday
June 9: Pride Brunch
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THE COSMOS
June 16: Intro + Every Kind, Ezekiel 17:22-24
June 23: Compassion According to Steadfast Love, Lamentations 3:22-33
*June 30: Mapping the Cosmos/Butler Tarkington Walk and Talk
July 7: Brunch Sunday
*July 14: All Those People, Go Talk to Them/Irvington Counseling Collective, Amos 7:7-15
July 21: From Scattered to Safe, Jeremiah 23:1-6
*Saturday, July 27: Let Them Eat/Octavia’s Visionary Campus (OVC) with Kheprw, 2 Kings 4:42-44
August 4: Brunch Sunday
August 11: Built Up in Love + Community Conversation, Ephesians 4:25-5:2
*Saturday, Aug 17th (NO Gathering the 18th): Come, Eat and Drink/The Avenue Coffeehouse, Proverbs 9:1-6
Aug 25: We Will, Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18
September 1: Brunch Sunday
DISCUSSION PROMPTS:
-Take time to consider how “you are, only in relationship”. How might the Spirit be prompting you to celebrate relationships and grow in them as you grow in being known?
-Where, or in what ways, is the Spirit prompting you/us to be more connected as a part of the vast network of beings in the cosmos?
-What is your favorite form of connecting with God? Carve out time to delight in God’s presence (with or without human companions).
-In what ways do our individual and communal rhythms need to be disrupted in order to explore our vast connections in the greater constellation of connectedness, in our broader community and world?
-How has this week’s text/conversation or experience during the Gathering challenged or encouraged you? Talk about it with someone else.
PARENT CUE:
Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints
RESOURCES:
-Walk Out Walk On (available for free on Spotify)
-Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul - Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
-We Can Do Hard Things Podcast
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