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Inspired by our calling, we aim:
- to increase community awareness and spread the word
- to help people to grow and learn through mutual support and care
- to be a good neighbor to people in need and to challenge injustice
- to encourage more followers
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Contact us:
3375 Edison Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: (415) 555-5555
Fax: (415) 555-5515
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:30AM to 5:30PM
About Us
3375 Edison Way,
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Session One: Our Faith Stories
Session Two: Our Images of GodSession Three: Reconciled in Jesus Christ Session Four: The Inspired & Inspiring WordDiscussing our diverse beliefs, views, use, and experience of scripture both in our histories and in our daily lives. Session Five: Making Ourselves Available to God We all carry negative messages from our culture, and all too often our churches, about who we are and what we should be. We make ourselves more available to God by bringing those images to the altar and seeking to open ourselves up to His unconditional love and transforming power of renewal. Session Six: We Learn to Hear God As a persecuted people, we often close ourselves off to God as we lives lives in fear and shame. We become proficient and accustomed to hiding parts of ourselves. It becomes increasingly difficult for us to hear and know God's unconditional love for us and disern His will for our whole and joyfilled living. We have a powerful ally and lover – Jesus Christ. If we open our wholeselves to God, our persecution both humbles and strengthens us. It “helps us to know our limits and brokenness”, and teaches us to “rely on God’s boundless strength rather than our own finite” abilities (Pepper 63-64).Session Seven: Member of the Body of Christ Many of us long to reconnect with the churches and church experiences of our youth. In this study we reflect on the feelings those "emotional ties" evoke and share our struggles to reclaim our place in the Body of Christ. Reflecting on I Corinthians 12, we strategize how to make ourselves and our gifts more fully available to the whole Body of Christ. Session Eight: Our Witness to Living in Christ In this study we will be encouraged to "come out" and live fully and authentically. God created us each with purpose, dignity, and intention. Boldy come out and use your whole authentic self, including your gender identity and affectional orientation, to witness to the amazing redemptive power, intimacy of our God, personal strength and peace, and the abundant grace that is found in our awesome God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Session Nine: Witness Inspired by the Holy Spirit The last study in the Reconciling Journey text. We are each called to share our witness, inspired by the grace of God and empowered by the gift of Holy Spirit. An intregal part of sharing our witness is sharing our wholeselves including our gender identity and sexual
orientation. When we come out we risk persecution and rejection but the opportunity, through God's amazing power and grace, to inspire,
encourage, and prompt growth and change in our world is abundant. God through Jesus Christ calls us and has specially equipped each
of us to bring justice, peace, and forgiveness to a broken world.
Each month's topics are based on Michal Anne Pepper's devotional workbook entiled Reconciling Journey.
Streamwood Group
This page was last updated: July 17, 2008
Reconciling Journey Ministries
Affirming GLBT Christians and seekers in their daily walk
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Meeting each 1st SUNDAY of the month
1500 Old Church Rd.
Streamwood, IL 60107
630-837-0190
