Community Group & Personal Days

We had our first community group of the fall tonight. It was great to be back together again. We "multiplied" our group this fall. That means that we asked some people in our group (in this case, Jason & Jaime Miller and Patrick & Lindsey Kelley) to lead a new group. We also encouraged all of the people in our group to choose either our group or theirs. The idea is that because our group is so big, we multiply out a new group and it grows into a healthy group, which makes more room for new people to experience authentic community between the two groups. It can be difficult sometimes for people to choose which group to attend because by choosing one group it feels like you are saying no to the other group. In the end, it always turns out to be a really good thing.

Anyway, our group went really well tonight and I'm excited about a new season of community group. We will miss our friends in the new group, but we will see them on Sunday nights at worship and our two groups will gather for fun events occasionally.

Tomorrow, our family is trying something new. Elise is going to take the morning for some personal time. I'll take care of the kids while she has the freedom to go somewhere to read, pray, reflect, whatever. Then next week, we'll trade and I'll have a morning for personal time while Elise watches the kiddos. We made the decision to try this while we were in Colorado on Sabbatical. When we were there, we each had an entire day each week to ourselves. I'll report back some time later about how it goes.