Cohort Expanding

If the cohort were pants, and the people were a belly - then it would be time to dig a new hole through the leather belt and loosen it up a bit.

Wow, what a great gathering last night. Everyone was so excited to see one another, we had new people who were welcomed lovingly and afterwards expressed gratefulness for the life they received from being around likeminded folks.

Elise Brown gave us the low down...on her new Thursday night gathering, which many of us will be attending on Sept. 14th at 7:30pm at Advent Lutheran, corner of 93rd & Broadway.

Transmission is growing in the hearts of Bowie and Isaac, and all of us.

I got a wonderful email today from Sean Callaghan in South Africa, who is moving out here hopefully by the summer to plant in Tribeca - he follows the Cohort blog here and can't wait to come and be amongst us, and we can't wait to be there to aid in their families transition into the city. They will be a great addition to our growing community.

Sunday afternoon some churches are going to Central Park for the Save Darfur Rally and the Doctors Without Borders Refugee Camp - a big day here for Social Justice.

Diana Butler Bass will be speaking about her new book on signs of life in mainline churches at St. Bart's tonight at 7:30pm, Center for Religious Inquiry. Free. Her new book is called "Christianity For the Rest Of Us" - about new signs of life in mainline congregations (She's on the Board of Directors of Emergent Village) [update: me and Becky went, very insightful new book]

Please send in links to your blogs and church websites and we will post them permanently on the sidebar here.

Next Month: A special treat as cohort member David Ramos founder of the Latino Leadership Circle (LLC) comes and guides our dialog. Probably a number of LLC'ers will come with. Can't wait!

First Fall Meeting of the Cohort!

Hello Cohortonians!

We are back for the new fall season Tuesday, Sept. 12th at 6:30pm!
(which is the second Tuesday in the month)

We've got a great fall ahead of us, next month David Ramos, founder of the LLC is facilitating the dialog, and a host of enlightening conversations are in our future. Already you can sense a wonderful enthusiasm about the relationships we are building, and if you read the post below, you will discover things are already happening out of these friendships.

On Tuesday rather than having a specific theme, we will talk about the overall emerging church phenomenon, and leave space within that for questions from new people, along with talking about actual things that are happening in America, in England, and here in NYC and where we hope or imagine this thing will go in the future. A good general night, so come ready to talk about whatever is on your mind.

See you Tuesday night!

Origins Church Office
581 9th Ave #3B
(corner of 42nd and 9 Ave.)
above the papaya dog.
Enter next to the hotdog place on 9th ave.
look for the ORIGINS poster in the door and buzz number 3B...