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Friday, January 30, 2009
Need Your Feedback
Does the recent bad weather change our plans for tomorrow? Currently we have scheduled a Training and Background check for Volunteers at 10:30 am - and a door knocking campaign at the apartment complex at 1:00 pm... should we postpone???
Friday, January 23, 2009
Prayer Meeting and Training Day
Hey gang. Just wanted everyone to know that I have sort of taken it upon myself to move the training day back one week. I have not heard from Chris and am not sure if we are ready to do background checks. Also, I need another week to finish preparing for the training day.
This means that training will be from 10:30 - 11:00 am on Jan. 31st. We will also door knock that day at 1:00 pm at CGA.
Prayer meeting is on at its normal hour tomorrow - Jan. 24th, from 10-11 am.
Hope to see you all tomorrow morning for perhaps the most important thing we could do for our friends and neighbors at CGA... pray.
This means that training will be from 10:30 - 11:00 am on Jan. 31st. We will also door knock that day at 1:00 pm at CGA.
Prayer meeting is on at its normal hour tomorrow - Jan. 24th, from 10-11 am.
Hope to see you all tomorrow morning for perhaps the most important thing we could do for our friends and neighbors at CGA... pray.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Moving Forward
Todays Prayer Meeting was wonderful! Thanks to all of you that came and participated - both your input and insight are valued.
I wanted to update everyone else on our plans for moving forward at Country Garden Apartments. After months of careful consideration, months of prayer, months of visiting, and months of brainstorming, we are finally going to put it all into practice again! And I couldn't be more excited. Not only are we movinig forward with prayer, planning and God's leading on our side - we also have the trial and error experiences and knowledge from our 2007 -2008 efforts at the complex! The timing is right, and its upon us!
Here is what we discussed this morning:
We will be hosting (in our apt. 103G) a reading group for the kids of Country Garden Apartments (limited to ages 4-10). It will begin Saturday, February 7th, from 10:00 - 11:00 am. We will begin our time with the kids by serving cereal as breakfast. Then we will have a time of sit down reading to the kids. After that we move to a time of craft, or activity or something. Eventually, we'd like to see a library of sorts that the kids could check out books from.
We will limit the # of children to 20, so that the time spent with the kids will be manageable, safe, and meaningful. We will have 3-4 adults inside the apartment during the hour along with 3-4 adults outside the apartment (and around the door). (Eventually we'd like to hand-select volunteers from the complex to help us.) Every volunteer will have to go through a background check. We will have a simple registration and check-in/out system in place. To register (the first time a child comes) a parent/guardian must come with the child to fill out an information sheet on the child. If the parent does not come with the child to register him/her we will go with the child back to the apartment and ask them to fill out the form. (There will be a waiting list, should more than 20 kids come one week. This way there will be equity in participation priveleges.)
We need a cleaning system in place, where the apartment is cleaned on a regular basis and therefore we need a good base of volunteers who are willing to do this on a monthly basis.
Tomorrow morning (Jan. 11) at church, there will be a sign-up sheet in every classroom for those who are willing to volunteer in any capacity.
January 31st we will be knocking doors and spreading the news of our new weekly event to the tenants. We will also give a flyer to the apartment manager (Kendra Throgmartin) to hand out to the tenants promoting it a couple of weeks in advance.
If you have any advice, input, questions, concerns, or prayers you would like to voice, then feel free to click on comments and have at it!
I want to remind all of you engaged in this of our mission and focus as we move forward -
"We are dedicated to partnering with our friends and neighbors at the Country Garden Apartment Complex in building authentic community."
I wanted to update everyone else on our plans for moving forward at Country Garden Apartments. After months of careful consideration, months of prayer, months of visiting, and months of brainstorming, we are finally going to put it all into practice again! And I couldn't be more excited. Not only are we movinig forward with prayer, planning and God's leading on our side - we also have the trial and error experiences and knowledge from our 2007 -2008 efforts at the complex! The timing is right, and its upon us!
Here is what we discussed this morning:
We will be hosting (in our apt. 103G) a reading group for the kids of Country Garden Apartments (limited to ages 4-10). It will begin Saturday, February 7th, from 10:00 - 11:00 am. We will begin our time with the kids by serving cereal as breakfast. Then we will have a time of sit down reading to the kids. After that we move to a time of craft, or activity or something. Eventually, we'd like to see a library of sorts that the kids could check out books from.
We will limit the # of children to 20, so that the time spent with the kids will be manageable, safe, and meaningful. We will have 3-4 adults inside the apartment during the hour along with 3-4 adults outside the apartment (and around the door). (Eventually we'd like to hand-select volunteers from the complex to help us.) Every volunteer will have to go through a background check. We will have a simple registration and check-in/out system in place. To register (the first time a child comes) a parent/guardian must come with the child to fill out an information sheet on the child. If the parent does not come with the child to register him/her we will go with the child back to the apartment and ask them to fill out the form. (There will be a waiting list, should more than 20 kids come one week. This way there will be equity in participation priveleges.)
We need a cleaning system in place, where the apartment is cleaned on a regular basis and therefore we need a good base of volunteers who are willing to do this on a monthly basis.
Tomorrow morning (Jan. 11) at church, there will be a sign-up sheet in every classroom for those who are willing to volunteer in any capacity.
January 31st we will be knocking doors and spreading the news of our new weekly event to the tenants. We will also give a flyer to the apartment manager (Kendra Throgmartin) to hand out to the tenants promoting it a couple of weeks in advance.
If you have any advice, input, questions, concerns, or prayers you would like to voice, then feel free to click on comments and have at it!
I want to remind all of you engaged in this of our mission and focus as we move forward -
"We are dedicated to partnering with our friends and neighbors at the Country Garden Apartment Complex in building authentic community."
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Let's Get Goin!
Hey Team -
Its officially time to get going! I have met with several people individually, and I think we have a starting point for revitalizing our presence and building authentic community at CGA! We will start this Saturday at 10:00 am, (meet in the BLC Lobby), we will walk over to the CGA Complex and knock doors. We will be meeting the tenants and asking them two questions: Is there anything we can do to serve them, and do they have any prayer requests that we can take with us and pray for them about. We will do this Jan. 10, Jan. 17, Jan. 24, and Jan. 31st. Then starting on the first Saturday in February (Feb. 7) we will start a reading group at noon each week (on everySaturday) We will have two teams that will meet there from 12 pm - 1 pm every week from then on. A "Networking Team" and an "Educational Team" - The educational team will meet with the kids during the reading hour, and Cathy Mulhollen (spelling?) will lead this effort. The Networking Team will knock doors, visit with people outside, build relationships, take prayer requests, make needs lists, ask tenants for help with projects, etc. Also, the networking team will schedule dinners once per month with a few tenants to get to know them.
Please, over the coming month, come to the prayer walks, prayer over what you might be interested in, get engaged, and engage others in our journey. If you have any questions, feel free to call me. (926-3329) Or simply reply to this post in the "comments" section. Thanks, have a blessed week and weekend, and I look forward to seeing all of you this Saturday at 10:00 am.
Peace -
Joe James
Its officially time to get going! I have met with several people individually, and I think we have a starting point for revitalizing our presence and building authentic community at CGA! We will start this Saturday at 10:00 am, (meet in the BLC Lobby), we will walk over to the CGA Complex and knock doors. We will be meeting the tenants and asking them two questions: Is there anything we can do to serve them, and do they have any prayer requests that we can take with us and pray for them about. We will do this Jan. 10, Jan. 17, Jan. 24, and Jan. 31st. Then starting on the first Saturday in February (Feb. 7) we will start a reading group at noon each week (on everySaturday) We will have two teams that will meet there from 12 pm - 1 pm every week from then on. A "Networking Team" and an "Educational Team" - The educational team will meet with the kids during the reading hour, and Cathy Mulhollen (spelling?) will lead this effort. The Networking Team will knock doors, visit with people outside, build relationships, take prayer requests, make needs lists, ask tenants for help with projects, etc. Also, the networking team will schedule dinners once per month with a few tenants to get to know them.
Please, over the coming month, come to the prayer walks, prayer over what you might be interested in, get engaged, and engage others in our journey. If you have any questions, feel free to call me. (926-3329) Or simply reply to this post in the "comments" section. Thanks, have a blessed week and weekend, and I look forward to seeing all of you this Saturday at 10:00 am.
Peace -
Joe James
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