Month: November 2008

  • Schools For Conversion

    Recently a team from our community visited our friends out in Missouri at Shepherdsfield. Shepherdsfield is another intentional Christian community from whom we’ve learned much over the years. They invited us to participate in a “School For Conversion” which is a conference sponsored by the New Monasticism movement. It was enriching spending time again with…

  • Mankind Is Our Business

    In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol the hesitant and barely chastened Scrooge, confronting the phantom that was his partner in life, tries to console the guilty and agonized ghost (and himself) with a feeble word of encouragement, “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.” Immediately, the specter roars out with terrible force,…

  • Harvest Party ’08

    This year’s Harvest Party theme was superheroes. The week before Harvest Party, we carved pumpkins to fit the superhero theme. A Gotham City skyline, an eight foot city skyscraper made from cardboard and various superhero symbols were our decorations.  The costumes were very creative as most were handmade. It was a fun night with food,…