What’s new first of all that we are making an effort to try to keep the site as up-to-date as possible so that YOU know what’s happening!
Over the last month or two lots of interesting things have been happening throughout the Garioch. We are still meeting in 3 groups spread from the North to the South and are in the midst of a 3rd multiplication as the south group grows.
The summer is shaping up to be a fun, together time. Each @home group is taking responsibility for a ‘fun@garoich’ day each month between June & August. This is a great opportunity to continue to get to know each other and spend time enjoying the Scottish summer and countryside around us.
The south group met on Saturday at Kintore gala day. Even though the weather ‘clouded’ (!!) events it was still a great day. The younger members of the group entered the fancy dress competition and paraded behind the pipe band while the older amongst us stood in the rain cheering them on! It was a great opportunity to strengthen and deepen relationships within this community. Some of the north group did the same in Insch at a community event on Sunday.
Friendships are budding and we are really enjoying it. In this way, and others, we hope to impact our communities by ‘being’ and ‘doing’, spending time with people.
Last night (15th June) a ‘4 story block’ was started up. Intrigued? You should be!
Read in its entirety we get from each of the four gospels a sense of the sweep of the story every time we read. We hope to get to know the Jesus presented by each of the gospel writers – to get to know how his mission developed, his priorities, his way of doing things, his claims about himself, together. We hope to become better equipped to learn and retell the stories of Jesus.
Listening to each other read these stories aloud we hope to be engaged as countless people have been over the centuries – after all it is how the stories would have been passed on in the first place.
Each of the groups is experimenting new ways of ‘being’ what God wants us to be in the places that He has put us. We are challenged as we continue to listen for God’s leading in what we do here. Above all, our aim is to glorify God in the relationships we form where we are through treating people the way Jesus did and following the example of Jesus we see in the Bible. More than anything we are tyring to walk with Jesus and become more like Him.
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