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So, we should have a Gal328 forum party for Lectureships, eh? If anyone else needs a place to stay, you're always welcome to crash at my apartment on campus. Oh, and if you want to experiene the "ACU Difference" from a student perspective, I'll be happy to spend some time with folks that weekend. Jen, I'm looking forward to your class. Spent a week in Stamford, CT a couple weeks ago and it was great to re-group with a gender-inclusive church. Merry Christmas!
Teresa
:::posted by TKP on 12/25/2004 12:29:00 PM
Julie,
while we are talking plans, any chance you will be attending Stream in the Desert this year the 1st weekend of April?
To Everyone else: how many will be attending Lectureship and Stream this year?
Merry Christmas Everyone!
:::posted by Wiley on 12/24/2004 01:27:01 AM
Hi Julie!
Lectureship will be Feb. 20-23. Linda and I will be staying with my twin daughters almost across the street from the campus. I'm not sure where Shannon will be staying yet. You can count on that cup of coffee!!! Maybe we can all get together at one time for a gal328 coffee break or possibly we can all meet up Sunday evening at Moody (if we can find each other in the crowd!). I just hope it warms up by February!!!!
I've already worked out my class schedule (includes Jennifer's classes!) You can get the class schedule on the ACU web site or pick up one of the programs. Guess they're out on the campus also.
Have a wonderfull Christmas!
:::posted by Wiley on 12/24/2004 01:12:55 AM
Hi friends, Merry Christmas! 2005 is going to be awesome!
When is Lectureship in Abilene? I live here and I haven't heard. Anyone who would like can stay with us...we have plenty of room and are fairly close to campus. We have offered to many but no one has said anything solid about coming...if it is lots of you...we'll just have camp Danley. And Wiley, I am going to hold you to that cup of coffee you mentioned before...I don't drink coffee but it is the conversation that I was looking forward to.
grace, Julie
:::posted by julie on 12/23/2004 11:49:36 PM
Katie,
Haven't heard of it so I can't help out there. However, I don't watch enough TV to know what commercials are showing these days !
Figured I wish you and Lance the same. Have a woderfully joyfull time with your family as we remember the birth that changed the world.
Shannon says hi and merry Christmas! She's sitting across the room from me. She also wants to know (as do I!) if you and Lance might be coming to Lectureship in Feb (we just got the Lectureship program in the mail and have been planning classes already!!!).
:::posted by Wiley on 12/23/2004 11:37:37 PM
Anybody seen the holiday advertising for a new perfume called "Provocative Woman"? Lance slyly comments that it would make a perfect Christmas present for me... though I don't think I'm the kind of provocateur the marketing people had in mind.
Happy Christmas to you all, friends. May the light of this bright season -- Jesus, the Light of the World -- make his presence known in your life and in the world.
peace -- Katie
:::posted by Katie on 12/22/2004 01:11:06 PM
Another first to report: last weekend while Lance and I were visiting family in Kentucky, Malissa Endsley of the Bronx Christian Fellowship preached for the West Islip congregation. I got to hear it on tape and she did a terrific job. Sounded like she'd been doing this forever.
Malissa and her teammates are church planters in the Bronx; she lives in an apartment and hosts a house church there. Her work with neighborhood children and adults includes literacy training, homework help, benevolence, counseling, and plenty of hospitality. She leads worship in her home, bringing the light of Jesus Christ into a neighborhood that has known a lot of darkness. And many more things I don't know anything about! So maybe her sermon at West Islip wasn't a first for her... except for the pulpit and the tape recorder and all the trappings of a non-house church.
In any case, our congregation was blessed to hear her voice on the first Sunday of Advent, the season of waiting for the coming of the Christ into the world. She spoke about God's love for the cities of this world, and about beating our weapons into gardening tools for the sake of those cities. Thanks, Malissa, for the Word well-spoken.
peace -- Katie
:::posted by Katie on 12/02/2004 09:42:19 AM
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