dates and date changes

April 3rd, 6:30 – 8:30 pm we will be gathering at the home of Dean and Shelbie in Orangevale (call for more information). This is an important meeting. Rather than have separate meetings for those working on various projects, we will split up into working groups focusing on (1) preparations for Pow Wow Days and (2) location discovery. Both of these are rather urgent and could use your input, ideas and eager investment. We will also get in small groups and share stories about how its going with the Five Practices in weekly Rhythm (if you don’t yet have a copy, they can be found below on this blog). So if you haven’t quite gotten into rhythm yet, you still have time. These simple activities, put into practice, will give us a common language in which to share our stories, as well as a set of shared practices to invite our friends and neighbors into. As they say in New Zealand, "Give it a go!"

We have decided to push back the dates for the next two Lakeside-Orangevale Sunday Gatherings. So April 20th will now meet on April 27th and May 18th will meet on May 25th. The reason for this is that the only two Sundays all year that Lakeside-Folsom is having a special musical guest is on those two weekends. We decided that it would be best to have our next two Sunday gatherings be on more ‘normal’ Sundays. On April 20th, Afri-Tendo will be in all the gatherings and May 18, a choir from California Baptist College will be with us. However, our new dates: April 27th and May 25th, Pastor Jim Price will be in a series entitled “When Life Seems Hopeless,” highlighting some of the encounters Jesus had with desperate people.

We will be communicating the new dates to a wider audience on the web as well as in The View this weekend.