{"id":215,"date":"2007-02-19T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-01-26T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:30:52","slug":"new-members-in-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"New Members in Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quotidian Grace writes about her recent experience<\/a> attending a new member’s class at another church.\u00a0 (I’m not entirely clear on whether she is changing churches or just sitting in – she’s the moderator-elect of her presbytery.)<\/p>\n

The really interesting part of her experience is the Saturday “workday” that they did.\u00a0 The new members were taken to one of the church’s outreach agencies to work for a 1\/2 day.\u00a0 They did the usual mission work – packing sack lunches, working in the Thrift Shop.\u00a0 At the end of the day they heard about other mission opportunities (and learned even more in the regular Sunday session the next day).<\/p>\n

The group even made sure that they were thanked and given pictures (electronically) of them working.<\/p>\n

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We got an overview of mission opportunities at the Lawrenceville church new member class.\u00a0 We even got to see most of the internal ones just before the classes started at the annual stewardship fair (and the new class just got to see the external ones yesterday at the annual mission fair).\u00a0 But we didn’t actually roll up our sleeves and do something.\u00a0 The new member class was a nice way to get slightly acquainted with some of the other new members, but I would have really liked the chance to get to know people in the way that only happens when you work on something together.<\/p>\n

Kudos to the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church<\/a> in Houston!