Comments on: first draft

By: mary beth

mary beth — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:47:55 +0000

You go!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:22:17 +0000

I love that you are open to whatever the Holy Spirit seems to be doing. That’s the key, isn’t it? And if it’s terrifying at times, well, that shows you’re in Spirit territory. (wait, that sounds like a high school pep rally, you know what I mean!) I look forward to watching this unfold.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:00:04 +0000

Have you been in touch with nanette sawyer of wicker park (or is that wickerpark?) grace yet?? Just wondering…might be helpful in the discernment process. You do have visionary/entrepreneurial tendencies IMHO. Go for it - have fun while doing so.

By: reverendmother

reverendmother — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:23:23 +0000

Just monkeyed around with it some more and sent it off. I’ll hear something in September.

By: reverendmother

reverendmother — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:17:50 +0000

Oh, I have plenty of qualms—don’t need an assessment for that…

Hmm, I’ll think about that. I wasn’t going for that in particular, just trying to list things that people might already do as hobbies and avocations that could be imagined as spiritual as well as creative exercises.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:04:29 +0000

For just a flicker of a moment, I thought that said they do a qualms assessment, and have no skills about saying “no, this isn’t for you.”

Anyway, I know nothing about churches and a few things about the arts, so that’s the only thing I can discuss here. This question is for clarification only, not judgment: The things you listed (cooking, singing, knitting, woodworking, etc.) show a distinct slant toward folk arts. Is that what you intend to convey?

By: reverendmother

reverendmother — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:58:55 +0000

Songbird, I think they do—a skills assessment, that is. What I’ve heard is that they have no qualms about saying “no, this isn’t for you.”

And good luck in Atlanta!

By: Songbird

Songbird — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:31:12 +0000

It certainly can’t hurt to go, especially if the geographical concern has been removed by the location.
I’m headed to Atlanta for ours next month, despite all the questions I have about whether it will ever really happen in my Conference, where the money will come from, whether I have the energy and the health, etc. etc. The call to do church differently may be lived in some other way. But meanwhile, I want to know more about how people are doing it when it is clearly NCD rather than re-development.
Does your denomination offer some kind of skills assessment as part of the process? We have a test and an interview, and although that felt a little silly on some levels (the test, especially), knowing how I did on it was a piece of my discernment process.
Your idea sounds intriguing, looking forward to hearing more about where it goes.

By: jledmiston

jledmiston — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:38:36 +0000

Do it. Go to the October event, which, if the people choosing the participants have any sense will immediately select you to attend. I went last year and found it exactly what I needed.

Of course, I haven’t been called to an NCD (yet.) But it’s coming. And so is yours.

And btw - you are exceedingly entrepreneurial.