It’s been almost five months since we moved to Memphis, and I’m amazed at how quickly we’ve settled into life here and how God’s blessed our family with peace, contentment and joy along the way. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve had our fair share of ups AND downs, but when I look back over the past five months, I’m filled with gratitude. I absolutely love living in Midtown, and I love our Missional Community group.
A Missional Community is a group of people (in our case, 10-25) who are united, through our belief in Jesus and desire to be more like him, around a shared desire to serve and bless a particular neighborhood or network of relationships. We strongly value living life together in community and hope to see others follow Jesus as the result of our friendship. Although we plan to eventually have a Sunday worship gathering, we find our primary identity within this community. In essence, we’re a close-knit spiritual family on mission together.
While we hang out together and keep in touch throughout the week, we also have a regular Thursday night time to meet up. Here are some of us eating dinner together at our house . . .
I’m so thankful God’s put each of these people into my life, and I’m really, really excited to see what He does in and with this group in 2012!
{If you’re interested in knowing more about Missional Communities, THIS is a great website to explore!}
(Like bird seed ornaments–for outside.:) I LOVE those burlap ornaments!
-But smile thinking of all our memories. Remembering Olivia’s 5th Birthday-on the “hottest ever-lovin day” in July! Or how we packed 11 people, 2 dogs, & 2 tables in the barn for Thanksgiving last year! And STILL had room for cupcakes!!! LOL
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