this sunday.

Join us this Sunday Night from 6-8PM for the next Red Door Gathering happening at Compass Church. To sign up, get directions, and invite friends all you need to do is click the link below and through the magic of the internet it will take you to where you need to go.

Also, we are taking clothes for Tabitha’s Closet - a free store in the area that sets up a one day store for families to come and “shop” for clothing items they need. Do a little pre-Spring cleaning out of the closets and bring the clothes in bags with you this Sunday Night. Enjoy!

The Gathering

the blessing of a copier

We just received a great gift yesterday from my best friend Zach’s old company. They were closing down some offices and moving their employees into telecommuting positions and had a copier to give away. We just so happened to be the beneficiaries of this free gift. How cool. So now we have a brand new (at least to us) copier and a few reams of paper that came included - bonus!

But the story behind getting the copier is worth sharing…
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Join us for the 40 Day Journey starting this Wednesday.

All the details are over at www.the40dayjourney.com. Check it out to see what we are doing and how you can participate. Jump in at anytime but we would challenge you to track with us for all 40 days as we approach Lent with a different question this year. Instead of asking, “What can I give up?” We will be asking, “What can I give?” The journey will push you and challenge you as we try to amplify our ability to love our God, our Neighbors, and our World.

speaking of reverse…

I just came across this website today and thought it was a beautiful example of a life lived in reverse. Jess Lin has created a company, Hello Rewind, that meets a consumer need while giving others a chance to participate in the restoration of women rescued from the sex-slave trade. Not only can you get a sweeeeet custom designed laptop sleeve with a personal touch (i’m thinking about a vintage transformers tee) , you help restore life to women re:finding who they were created to be with each purchase.

• Check out Jess Lin’s blog post about the start of Hello Rewind.
• Hello Rewind supports the mission of Restore NYC.

reverse.

A little over a year ago I was in the middle of some of the biggest struggles and doubts of my life. I was searching and desiring to know what God really wanted from my life and what my life as a Christian was supposed to be about. I had spent so much time in Church, and Christian School, and Seminary and more Church that I think I was starting to forget what it was all about in the first place.

So I dove into the one place that made the most sense for me - Jesus’ Prayer. The one in Matthew 6 where he is telling his disciples what to pray for. I thought, “If this is what Jesus wanted his disciples to pray for, isn’t this what I should be about?” I spent a long time just turning the prayer over in my mind, thinking it, praying it, even living it. (As a side note, it is amazing how fast the prayer for daily bread becomes a real prayer and not a spiritual one when you actually need daily bread and are not sure where resources will come from day to day.) Anyways, back to our story… it all changed one night as I was meditating on the prayer.
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this sunday.

Join us this Sunday Night from 6-8PM for the next Red Door Gathering happening at Compass Church. To sign up, get directions, and invite friends all you need to do is click the link below and through the magic of the internet it will take you to where you need to go. Enjoy!

The Gathering

don’t limit your imagination

Sometimes we are so trapped by our perspective we fail to use our God-given imagination to dream up a possibility outside of our current circumstances. But along comes someone with a prophetic voice that says something in just the right way, or maybe the shower water hits our front temporal lobe in just the right way to create a moment. One of those times when you are like, “Of course. I can’t believe I never saw that before.” It’s the moment the Newtonian apple finally hits our head.
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i am a sinner.

i am an actor. i am a liar. i am lazy. i am a fool. i am a hypocrite. i am a searcher. i am a replacer. i am a taker. i am a receiver. i am a doubter. i worry. i cheat. i speed. i don’t care. i am unsubmissive. i think i know better. i argue. i hate. i don’t learn from my mistakes. i am unwilling to give you certain parts of me. i am a thief. i’m jealous. i’m selfish and crude. i’m rude and unkind to the ones that i love. i am full of myself and i think i’m always right. and i do not know my need for grace.

and i don’t even believe the things i just said!
have mercy on me, GOD of Jacob.
because i sin more than i am good.

http://www.igracemusic.com/hymnbook/hymns/t12.html

red door wallpaper

Enjoy these 2 brand spankin’ new Red Door wallpapers for your desktop background. These will work on any mac or pc, but generally prefer to live in a mac from what I understand! Enjoy.

the church of haiti

“So then, as we have the opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith” Galatians 6:10

As the church, we have a very focused responsibility to the church of Haiti. As you consider where to give funds for relief in Haiti I would suggest checking out Churches Helping Churches. James MacDonald and Mark Driscoll teamed up after the earthquake in Haiti to respond to the specific need to care for the churches in Haiti. They want to make sure the church of Haiti, though staggered, finds it’s legs, straightens itself and begins to pour into the physical and spiritual care of their fellow Haitians.
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