Hi everyone -
Our next meeting will be Monday November 7 -- we have a long lag this time because there's a "fifth Monday" in October and we don't meet -- but keep November 7 on your calendar. The Johnsons will be cooking! Thanks to Joel and to Nora for the food last time -- Chicken & dumplings, and Nora's pumpkin cupcakes -yum! Next time we'll be talking about Chapter 3 of John -- the encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus, where the whole question comes up about what it means to be "born again." The posible answers may surprise us! Chapter 3 in the commentary will be a good guide, but I expect our discussion will range far & wide. Since you have an extra week, I encourage you to follow the reading guide in the commentary so that you read beyond this chapter and see a little more how it fits into the whole way that this gospel tells the story. But our focus will be on 3:1-21.
The photo here is of members of our group participating in the ministry to Citygate - a program for children in Northeast DC where members of our group and the mission group from Vienna Baptist go each month to help with enrichment and support activities for grade school age children. It's an important and satisfying ministry which we are trying to support more actively. The next Citygate day will be November 12 -- meet at VBC at 9:00 to ride in together. We're back by 1:00. Email Ben Wagener for more information and to sign up.
There are also opportunities to help out at the Hypothermia Shelter week at Fairfax United Methodist church in February -- we'll talk about this at our next meeting.
Looking forward to seeing you all on November 7. Please email me if you need directions to the Johnsons kathleen.staudt@gmail.com
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