UPDATE: Metanoia, Lent, the Democratic Party, Welding Help, This Week’s Schedule, and it’s Al’s Birthday

Dear friends, 
Thanks to all of you who came out to welcome Youssef and Alicia into our community as part of their Metanoia semester with us. Inviting new people to join us always gives us a chance to hear why it is that other people joined us long ago, stayed on with us, and keep coming back.
Hearing those [...]

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SCRIPTURE STUDY – The Beatitudes, part 1

“How can the Sermon on the Mount be so fundamental and basic to Christian discipleship, yet so shockingly radical? How can it be so simple and straightforward, yet so endlessly captivating? Jesus’ invitation in the Sermon is not, at its deepest level, to follow a list of moral rules. ‘Something bigger—and indeed more startling—is at [...]

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UPDATE: January 21, 2008

Dear friends,
We hope that many of you will be able to join us this week on Thursday for a special introduction and commissioning of our two new Metanoia Semester participants, Alicia and Youssef. At the Roundtable on Thursday evening, 6pm, we will formally welcome Youssef and Alicia into the GCW house community for the next [...]

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FOOD: Winter Farmer’s Market Goodness

We know that buying directly from local farmers is a good thing – for all kinds of reasons.  But on a cold, wet morning like this one, it was still hard to get up and go. 
But, as always, I’m so glad I did.  Where else would you find homemade jelly from locally grown summer blueberries, advice [...]

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UPDATE: New Year!

Happy New Year!
After a brief hiatus from the normal routines of GCW life, we are in full swing again.  The ever-faithful Servants of Christ church of Gainesville provided a delicious meal on the first Sunday of the month, and the Just Faith group from St. Catherine’s of Jacksonville hosted the café this week.  Our [...]

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