November 8 meeting

HomeStar's Nov. 8 meeting has a location change, and will now be held at the Cartledges' home, beginning at 5:00 p.m.

Our discussion will center around some ideas sparked by Brian McLaren’s book Everything Must Change.

Think in advance about several questions:

1. If you could summarize the essence of most sermons you heard while growing up, what would it be?

2. Have you noticed that the typical evangelical approach to understanding the atonement sounds as if Jesus came to save us from God? Does that bother you?

3. Is it possible that we’ve missed what Jesus was talking about when he proclaimed the present and future kingdom of God?

Bring your thinking caps and perhaps your singing voices, and we’ll look forward to a good time of fellowship and learning. If it stays cool, maybe we can throw in some hot Russian tea.

The address is 3912 Inkberry Court, which you can easily Google if you don’t know the way. Feel free to email (cartledge@campbell.edu) or call (919-362-1799 or 919-418-6828) if you need specific directions.

Peace!

Next meeting November 8

We had an enjoyable time of fellowship and discussion at the Cartledges' on Oct. 4, thinking about different ways we had seen "the church in the world" in action during the previous week.

Our next meeting will be held November 8, at Janice Haywood's home. I'll send an email around with more details as the time draws nigh, and suggest a topic for discussion.

In the meantime, I hope you'll look for ways you can not only watch for, but be the presence of Christ in your world.

Tony Cartledge

Looking ahead

In the light of HomeStar's up and down attendance during the past several months, and Jan Cartledge's recent decision to resign as pastor, we publicized and held a dialogue Sept. 13 to talk about what HomeStar's future might look like.

Eight people attended, and with facilitating help from our friend Ray Beale, we talked about what has changed -- or not -- in our thoughts about HomeStar, what drew us to be part of it, and whether we still felt that appeal. There seemed to be a desire to see HomeStar continue as a nexus of fellowship and mission connection in some fashion, though not necessarily weekly.

Ray suggested that we think of the Old Testament concept of the tabernacle, a portable sanctuary that the Pentateuch says Israel carried with them from place to place. We decided that we would experiment for a while with monthly meetings that could be hosted in a home by one of the members, or held in other places.

Tony Cartledge agreed to act as volunteer facilitator/coordinator for a year. Where it will go we're not sure, but there seemed to be a real sense that a HomeStar funeral would be premature.

What's up next: we'll have a fellowship meal at Mark and Karen Burden's home on Sept. 27, where we'll eat hot dogs and hamburgers for dinner, then celebrate Jan's five-year ministry to us as pastor.

The following week, Oct. 4, the Cartledges will host us at their home. More details to come on that meeting.

In the meantime, we hope you'll stay in touch with each other through this, the HomeStar blog, or through our Facebook page.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

After a summer sabbatical, we will gather back at the Ministry Incubator on Sunday, August 16 at 5:00 p.m. Look forward to seeing each of you and hearing about your summer adventures!

Sunday, May 31, 2009

We will gather back at the Ministry Incubator. Our time will include continuing discussion from our reading of The Shack, focusing on chapters 9-11 (pages 128-169).

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Due to Memorial Day weekend and many of our members being out of town, we will not meet this Sunday, May 24. We will gather back at the Ministry Incubator on Sunday, May 31 with continuing discussion from our reading of The Shack. Our focus will be on chapters 9-11 (pages 128-169).



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Sunday, May 17, 2009

This Sunday we will continue our discussion of The Shack, focusing on chapters 7 and 8 (pages 104 - 127). Look forward to seeing you Sunday at 5:00 p.m. at the Ministry Incubator.