A lot of stuff going on...

Call me crazy, but it seems to me like the beginning of summer is usually a time to slow down a little bit, rest, take some time off - but this year there is so much going on! I want to make sure everyone is up-to-date with it all. Here goes:

Most important things first: Rachel Semanek emailed me that her father is doing much better and that she and Matt truly appreciate all of the prayers and support during his surgery.

Now, onto things upcoming. Don't forget to check out the Young Adults Calendar and the weekly email for this information as well.

1. Brian McLaren - author of A New Kind of Christian and the new book The Secret Message of Jesus is speaking at Ecclesia this Friday night at 7:00. I know some of you are really interested in attending so here are the details. First of all, it is free. We will meet at the church at about 6:00 this Friday and drive over together. If you want to make it on your own, the address is:

Ecclesia (Taft Street Coffee House)
2115 Taft Street
Houston, Texas 77006
713.622.1846

More information about McLaren and his books can be found at the link to the right. If you want to go this Friday, call me (832-247-0124) or email me (ryankirksey@yahoo.com).

2. Brunch at the Gibson's house - This Sunday, June 4, Dave and Karen Gibson have invited all of us over to their house for brunch. We will start at about 10:15-10:30 right after first service. The menu will be eggs, bacon, waffles, cinnamon rolls, bagels, coffee, milk, juice, and anything else that we decide will be good comfort breakfast food. (Suggestions are welcome)
Directions:
Turn right leaving the church parking lot on to Bay Area Blvd.
Turn right at the second light, Friendswood Link road. Stay on Friendswood Link . After stopping go straight at the stop sign The street turns into Signal Hill.
Turn left on Lighthouse View.
Turn left on Rolling Fog.
Turn right on Serenity Cove Circle. Their address is 16923 Serenity Cove Circle (at the end of the block in the cul de sac). 281-648-0062

IMPORTANT: Please RSVP to Karen at kagibson30@yahoo.com so they can know how many to plan for. If you don't know right now, come anyway as we will have plenty of food.

3. Rob Bell - The author of Velvet Elvis and star of the Nooma videos will be speaking in Houston on Wednesday, July 12 as part of the Everything is Spiritual Tour. There will be a group of us going that night and tickets are $12.50. Doors open at 7:00 and the show begins at 8:00, so we will probably leave from the church at about 6:45. He is speaking at Numbers on Westheimer.

More information about this can be found at www.Nooma.com. If you plan to go, please let me know by Sunday, June 18 so we can get tickets ahead of time.

4. Wednesday night programs - As most of you know, Summer has different programming for Wednesday night events. In a week or two, Soul Survivor will start up again with dinner at the building for everyone at 6:00 PM and then a combined service at 7:00. One Wednesday night, our group will volunteer to help with the meal and the clean up afterwards.

I also received a message from Matt Semanek saying that the Wellspring will be dismissed until August and will resume then, perhaps with a different format and a few changes. Suggestions are welcome for this praise/devotional time (aliveinchrist1010@hotmail.com).


Beyond these things, a ton more is being planned for the next three months. There are parties, baseball games, worship times, and - of course - weddings.

As you can tell, so much goes on, that is almost too much for one person to manage. I am currently looking for someone to help out and be a "social coordinator" of sorts. Primarily, it would be a job of reasearching and planning all of these things that we do, figuring out new and creative things for the group to participate in, keeping the calendar up-to-date, etc. Pretty much you would have free reign to plan and suggest things for us to do, as well as looking at everything our group suggests. Let me know if you are interested - (ryankirksey@yahoo.com).

RK