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The Story of God, the Story of Us
Featuring Sean Gladding  -  Thursday, September 9
8pm (doors 7:30) - At St. Paul Lutheran Church


A Book of Faith Initiative Special Event

cosponsored by InterVarsity Press and
up/rooted-west (local Emergent Village cohort)

Before the Bible was a book it was flesh and blood. Join author and storyteller Sean Gladding as he presents the story of creation, helping us hear it as Israelite exiles would have as they gathered around a fire by the rivers of Babylon in the sixth century B.C.E. The story of creation is chapter one of Sean's new book, The Story of God, the Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible (IVP 2010), which has grown out of years of telling the overarching Story of Scripture to large groups and small gatherings throughout the United States and internationally as well.

Says the author: "What I always hope people walk away with is a desire to go read the text again, with others, and for people to hear the Story that is healing, invitational and that leads to life, rather than one that creates division, wounding and isolation."

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About Sean: Sean Gladding spent several years in Houston, Texas, where he was copastor of Mercy Street, an initiative by Chapelwood United Methodist Church for "church wounded" people, as well as people in drug and alcohol recovery. He now resides in Lexington, Kentucky, at Communality, a missional community that serves as one of the host "schools for conversion" for the New Monasticism.

Lenten Small group

Karen Edwards, Natasha Montemayor, Clay and Birgit Lindgren, and Alyssa and Pete Elza
at their last small group gathering in the Lenten “Where Faith & Culture Meet” series.
(not pictured: Jerry Mendoza and Kim Hollahan)
 

 
A  great event held in June 2009

Sunday, June 14, 2009 was Canoe/Kayak Day on the Fox! - We gathered at St. Paul at 1pm in our river gear and we shuttled over to the Fox for an easy stretch of river ending in St. Charles. Thanks to Cathy and Ed Godfrey for loaning us their canoes and kayaks and providing transport.

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