Emergent Village Central Valley North Cohort

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1. Emerging/Emergence/Emergent Village
   You are invited to attend the New Emergent Village Cohort forming for the Stockton/Manteca/Modesto, CA area!
   
   
   Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008
   
   7:00 -9:00 PM
   
   Kelley Brothers Brewing Company, Manteca, CA
   112 E Yosemite Ave
   
   We will be discussing love and judgment: How do we truly love others in a world of judgment?
   
   Please bring your thoughts and ideas.
   
   Have you ever been judged?
   Is Holy living in conflict with true acceptance?
   What is non judgmental thinking and how do I practice it?
   Does judgment get in the way of love?
   
   
   Emergent Village is a growing, generative friendship among missional people seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. What binds the cohorts together is a common desire to be in robust and respectful conversation about things that matter.
   
   This is a place to gather in the Stockton/Manteca/Modesto, CA area to discuss, share thoughts and ask questions about spirituality, faith, religion, culture, art, and church.
   This is a time where missional, monastic, emergent conversations intersect and converge.
   
   For more information please contact Scott Hoffman hoffman_s@hotmail.com.
   
   
   www.emergentvillage.com
   www.the-next-wave.org
   www.reimagine.org
   www.theooze.com
   
2. New Emerging Cohort
   

   You are invited to attend the New Emergent Village Cohort forming for the Stockton/Manteca/Modesto, CA area!
   
   
   Tuesday, November 18, 2008
   
   7:00 -9:00 Kelley Brothers Brewing Company, Manteca, CA
   112 E Yosemite Ave
   

   
   We will be discussing segments from Mark Scandrette's book Soul Graffitti, including community formation, simple living and imagining a life together.
   

   
   
   Emergent Village is a growing, generative friendship among missional people seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. What binds the cohorts together is a common desire to be in robust and respectful conversation about things that matter.
   
   This is a place to gather in the Stockton/Manteca/Modesto, CA area to discuss, share thoughts and ask questions about spirituality, faith, religion, culture, art, and church.
   This is a time where missional, monastic, emergent conversations intersect and converge. We can begin to think and converse about the Missio Dei, community, participation, and the Gospel of the Kingdom. For more information please contact Scott Hoffman hoffman_s@hotmail.com.
   
   
   www.emergentvillage.com
   www.the-next-wave.org
   www.reimagine.org
   www.theooze.com

   
3. Yoga
   I attend Life Yoga in Manteca and I love it.
   
   www.lifeyogamanteca.com
   
4. Why is it that most Christians don't look very different from others?
   Why is it that most Christians don't look very different from others? Yet, at that same time how many of those Christians are truly Christian? I am a poor excuse of a Christian. I am weak, and mean. I put others down and think I'm better. I waste my time and food and money. I don't even heal people. I can barely muster a phrase of encouragement. I indulge in entertainment. What's on next? Plus when I say that I am a Christian most people will associate me with a particular religion that of the Western American mega loser Church. However I myself don't necessarily ascribe to all the tenets of Christian religion. I am faith filled yet not full of faith, I am spiritual, yet not religious. I don't believe in the mainstream thought that has held faith hostage and captive for so long. I am filled with God's love for creation and humankind. I feel so close to finding a new path. My journey as led me to question. Yet to never doubt God's existence or the life of Christ. How much God loves others and me. But if there is so much love why are things this way? For me and my previous thinking: it's time to give it up and throw it out and begin again, and stop thinking that Christians will save the world because they can't. And stop thinking that Christians are so right. So we are getting ready to act yet not sure exactly what. It so helps to know people that truly love, care, believe in friendship, share in creation and creativity, that seek to put others first, that want to change themselves before they change the world, that will give unto the least of these. Whether these people have faith, it doesn't matter now. Just to be together, to learn together, to explore.