The Love Of Christ Compels Us...

That is the title of our current sermon series. We are on week 3 of the series. This Sunday Dallas will talk about what our response is, or what it is exactly that the Love of Christ Compels us to do. There is sure to be good discussion during our gathering on this topic. The picture below gives you a snapshot into the discussion that several of us had this week as we planned the upcoming Journey gathering. For more pictures you can check out the Journey Flickr page HERE.

The Journey Family Tree...

We Journey folks seem to like combining tradition with innovation, if you will. For example; we like to sing hymns but our band will create new electronic tracks for those hymns. We have couches next to pews. We combine traditional liturgy with whatever we think up. You get the point, we value both tradition and innovation. It seems to work well to create a unique gathering. The latest in this combination is our new milestone wall. Rhealyn, one of our leaders, painted a large tree on the wall in the entryway where will be displaying our Milestones.

Milestones are given to the Journey Community by someone in the community who has had a "milestone" in their life. They usually take the form of a piece of art. Some have given Journey a milestone if they have had a life change that causes them to move away from the Community. Some people have created a milestone for an important event or spiritual transformation in their life. There really are no rules for giving the Journey Community a milestone.

Now we have a "Family Tree" wall to display the milestones on...