Pub Crawl this Thursday, 7pm, in Union Square
September 11, 2007
Ok, Transmissioners, now that I have your attention, I wanted to give some highlights from our meeting last week for those of us who couldn’t be there, as well as give a few announcements:
- There’s been some strong interest in starting a bi-weekly Bible study, meeting on the weeks we don’t have regular Transmission. We’re hoping to do this because a) we want to see each other more often and b) we want to study the Bible outside of worship contexts. The consensus was that we would choose a public space downtown, likely a bar, lounge or coffeshop in order to be more friendly to the Brooklyn Transmissioners. So this Thursday, 7pm, several of us will be meeting in Union Square to go lounge-hopping with the hopes of picking a location. Let’s meet by the Mohandas Gandhi statue in the traffic island at the southwest corner of Union Square Park. The yet-to-be-named Bible study will start in two weeks, on Sept 26. More info to come.
- There are several other small-scale emerging churches, house churches, hospitality houses, and radical Christian living communities forming in New York, and we’d like to put together an event at which we could all meet one another and share what we are doing. The danger of non-hierarchical, unaffiliated groups like Transmission is that they can grow disconnected with the larger community. We have set a tentative date of Thursday, November 1 and we’d like to begin inviting other groups to participate.
- We’re really like to do a retreat at some point, probably in January. I work for a Jewish Theatre Company, and twice a year we spend a weekend out of town together to cement our friendships, dream about the future of the group, and to do the things we do. I’d love to see Transmission do something similar, and at the moment we’re looking at mid-January. It would be an overnight (leave on Friday, come back on Saturday) and would be free to all. Are you interested in coming and/or helping plan the event?
Finally, the next Transmission will be at Bowie’s place on Wednesday, September 19, and I’ll be leading the ritual. We still need some folks to volunteer to provide food, and I’d love to have someone help me with the worship. Let me know if you’re interested!
Oh, and best of luck to everyone who started school this week, either as a teacher or a student (i.e. Katie, John, Paul, Elaina, Katherine, Sarah and, well, me).