September 2009 Akron/Canton Emergent Cohort Meeting

Hello everyone,

I sent the following email to our regular cohort members, but I apologize for not posting here any sooner for anyone who checks out the site. Here are the details for this Friday’s meeting:

This month’s Akron/Canton Emergent cohort will be meeting on Friday, September 25th, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. As we’ve done the past few months, we’ll be meeting at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Akron. The address is 1250 W Exchange St, Akron, OH 44313-7695. Childcare will be available again for those with kids, thanks to Gregg Howell, our host. We’ll meet again at 6:30 for a meal (please bring a dish to share) and then begin our conversation (and childcare) at 7:00 p.m. You can enter the building through the doors adjacent to the wheelchair ramp on the back side of the building.  We’ll spend our entire time (including the meal) in the youth lounge, as there is a wedding rehearsal, I believe, going on elsewhere in the building. If you can make it, please email me at robfredbuck@gmail.com to let me know you’re coming and if you can bring anything to contribute to the meal so that we can make sure we have enough food, etc. As for our topic, unless I hear from folks with other ideas, I’d like to propose the following topic possibility:

• Many of us are parents, and if you’re like me, you find your own emerging journey in the way of Jesus challenging enough. The task of teaching my son about Jesus and the Church and what it means to follow Jesus in the 21st century is one that Kirsten and I undertake with much fear and trembling, indeed. What are your thoughts about this? How does this work or not work for you, if you’re a parent, and if not, how do you interact with the children in your life when it comes to your own journey with Jesus?

So, if you will, please email me or respond in the comments to let me know:

1. If you can come…
2. What food you can bring…
3. If you have any other topic ideas…

Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t say something about H1N1. As you may know, until the vaccine is ready and folks have gotten it, “social distancing” is one of the primary deterrents to the spread of the flu, and now that school has started cases of it are mounting, as predicted. So please, if you or a family member have “flu-like illness-” coughing, sneezing, fever, body aches, and with H1N1 some reports of vomiting or diarrhea, please don’t come. We really want you to be there, but we don’t want to spread H1N1 around. I say this especially because my son is one of those “high-risk” people who could get very, very sick or even die from it. Okay, my Public Service Announcement is over, and now back to your cohort post:

I hope to see everyone this Friday!