Feb Breakfast Recap

Fellow Ministers in SoTac,

Great thanks to John and his talented church member who fixed some dang good crossaint sandwiches. Yumm. In addition, the Korean coffee is always a treat. Thanks.

Originally, I'd thought I would miss the morning as my wife is due on Feb. 5th. But as of the writing of this recap, the baby is still hanging out in the warmth of the womb. Thanks for your prayers.

The Word
While stuffying our 'cakeholes' we started to share any reflections we'd had from the Word. What followed was a pretty cool sharing of insight. Kaj shared about a passage from Acts 11:27 in which despite the prediction of a severe famine, the believers in Antioch took up a collection to help out those in Judea. Rich shared about some of his digging into the Psalms with Psalm 38 during which David 'fesses up' and then really experiences God's grace. John talked a bit about the ways God motivates us, stick, carrot and ultimatley love. I talked a bit about the questions I think we all ask in in some way. Is God real? If so, does this God have power to change things? If so, does this powerful God care anything about me? Psalm 62 gave me some hope in the answer to these questions. Each one of these reflections was like a gold mine and is impossible to recap completely here.

Agendas
Next, we started to answer the question, "What is our agenda?" I confessed, as I mentioned in the previous post, that if I have an agenda it is simply for us, as Pastors in South Tacoma, to continue meeting so that we might build enough trust between one another that when God presents us with an opportunity or challenge uniquely suited for us to collectively address that we would be united enough to faithfully do so. Okay, that is perhaps worded a little better than what I said on Wednesday. Others echoed this sentiment, but added a couple of other words to their agendas such as 'comraderie,' 'mutual support,' 'reminder we aren't alone,' and 'prayer.'

Prayer
We closed our time in prayer and I want to officially offer my apologies to Jeff for cutting him off at one short prayer. I was confused and I am sorry. I promise folks will be allowed to pray more than once next time. :).

Next Breakfast
Wednesday, March 4th 8:30 at Puget Sound Christian Center

Shaloma in South Tacoma, Ken

Feb Breakfast Reminder

Fellow Ministers in So Tac,

First, the news, we have no news yet as our 3rd child has decided to remain in my wife, Erin's, womb for a bit longer. We aren't due until Thursday, so we haven't started to worry yet. That being said, I did have a death in the congregation and the memorial is on Thursday. So, you can keep us in your prayers for both of these endeavors.

Now the reminder. Our next breakfast is tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 4th at 8:30 at Green Pastures Presbyterian which is located at the corner of 66th and Junnett on the East side of South Tacoma Way. I just talked with John and he is getting all ready for us. Assuming that I will not be there, I'm sending a rough agenda for us to continue to talk about and so here it goes.
1. What interesting things are going on in your ministry or life?
2. What weeds do you notice in our community that need pulling?
3. What seeds do you notice in our community that need tending?

John asked me if I had an overall agenda for this group. It was a good question to which i answered yes and no. I don't have a specific agenda for this group to accomplish, but i do have a hope that we will come to a place of mutual trust amongst one another that when God reveals to us what he would like us to do together, that we would have enough unity to engage that work. So, in short, my agenda is for us to build trust between one another with the hopes that it will lead to a greater amount of God's shalom being reflected in South Tacoma. That's my hope. Perhaps that would be a good question to pose to the rest of the group. Do you have an agenda or hope for this group?

Grace and Peace, Ken