Hey everyone,
Due to the lack of a venue and the simple fact that the majority of our community will be away this Sunday, we are going to cancel the gathering.
We will be back at little nest on January 10th at 5pm for our usual potluck and discussion time as we explore John 10 together.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hey everyone,
Have a safe and fun Christmas season, and we will see all of you at choppers on the 4th of January!
Our gift will be an updated website, with hopefully a little more interaction… look for it in the new year.
Hey everyone, after a great BBQ last week (I added a few pictures to our photo group in flickr and in facebook) we are getting back together in our usual place this week (August 12).
I want also to encourage you to try and make it out over the next two weeks, there are some big announcements going to be made that we really want your participation in.
Thought I would let you know that we have finally finished the open house newsletter for December.
It has been a long time coming, but hopefully we will get back into a rhythm and begin putting these out every quarter in order to update everyone.
There are some great articles about our new interns, project 51 (more to come on this), Kristin’s gleaning trip and work with extended care and ways for our friends to support us in an exciting transition.
Please have a read…
We have been experiencing problems with our contact form page.
If you have sent a message through our form we probably didn’t receive it and we would love to hear from you through email.
Please email us at info AT theopenhouse DOT ca and replace the AT and DOT.
We look forward to hearing from you!
My new friend Jeremy who came out to Vancouver with Joe to shoot some footage of the open house for their documentary they are filming sent us some photos of Kristin, Julie, Tim and I during our interviews.
It’s nothing spectacular, but I thought some of you might be interested.
here is one photo for your viewing pleasure of Tim and Julie at Julie’s work. I hope to get some video outtakes to post as well.
Thanks to Kristin’s incredible creativity and imagination we now have a name for the open house monthly gatherings at Wise Hall. For now we will be using the incredibly literal 2nd Sunday, which obviously denotes the day of the month we regularly gather and shows that although we rarely meet on that traditional day of the week, we are not rejecting it…yes that is right the open house does actually gather on a Sunday. Of course it is in the afternoon (4:30pm), only once a month and we are not meeting in a church building, but yes we are maintaining that tradition in some sense.
So in light of all that gibberish, this is also an announcement that we are meeting this Sunday at June 10th to explore our humanity, specifically as Christians. It seems that there has been this theology floating around that our humanness is bad and that we should simply wait and hope, during our lifetime, for that day when we will be taken away from this earth and placed in heaven.
However, for some reason God created us and placed us in a time between the creation of man and the eventual re-creation of the world and we shouldn’t take that too lightly.
What does it mean for us to live between those two bookends and does our humanity have anything to do with it? Especially when for so long we have trashed our humanity and equated much of what goes on in the world as either sin or irrelevant.
So if you have a free Sunday afternoon, come on out and lets discuss a new way to be human!
