"Work" So Far

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"Sights" So Far

New Orleans is Sinking : }

The groups got here tonight (Sunday) and Luke and I led some get-to-know-you activities. (Followed by a vicious introduction to fire ants.) : ) I spent some time with the kids and some of the leaders and they seem great.

There are four groups (84 people in all), two from Virginia, one small one from Indiana, and one from Durham, NC (go Duke!)

Looks like it’ll be a good week!

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Luke and I had nothing to prep for today so after church we drove around looking for various places our GPS told us existed only to discover that they didn’t. One of the leaders here said that there are so many problems with GPS’s here because New Orleans is sinking, and changes the coordinates.
Seeing as Luke and I ended up in a very creepy Dexter-esque storage facility when the GPS swore we were 500 yards away at the parallel “Corporate Drive,” I’d say that sounds about right. : )

This is what real church looks like...

Today (Sunday) I went to the Bayou Blue Presbyterian Church.

The church was small, the people were few, the sanctuary was bare and insignificant, and let’s just say there were a few more notes in the songs that I’m not sure would have been found at NWPC. : )

The church wasn’t anything special. But the church—the people in it, the community that had been built there—was one of the best I’ve ever seen. They made an ordeal out of Sunday. (They made an ordeal out of God.)

First worship, then a weekly congregational Sunday dinner, followed by a time of smaller group learning in Sunday school.
This is what the church should be.

I understand that most (many?) churches are too big to feasibly have a congregational meal every week together. People are busy and budgets are tight.

Maybe it shouldn't work everywhere. But think of your own church and then think of how Jesus’ church movement was. Pretty sure He had potlucks every week too… ☺