Position Announcement
Applications Due April 1, 2010

Michigan Coordinator
Lutheran Volunteer Corps

Want to work at the most beautiful place on earth? Love camp? These summer jobs at Lake Louise United Methodist Camp might just be the place for you!

Food Services
Lifeguard
Maintenance

Carl

Christian Community?

Detroit Villages: What is Christian Community (in your own words)?

Lydia Wylie-Kellermann: A Christian community is a group of people who commit intentionally to one another and the broader community who are struggling together with the questions of discipleship in their current context. As they say, reading the Gospel in one hand and the newspaper in the other. We take the Gospel and ask the questions for our own lives and our current historical moment.

DV: Why is community important?

christian community is an group of people intentionally:
a. sharing resources with each other and their neighbors (food, homes, money, abilities, etc.)
b. practicing spiritual disciplines together (prayer, singing, bible study, etc)

community is important because it:
a. refines us and exposes our sin and weaknesses (similar to marriage)
b. causes us to liver simpler and be more generous with our resources
c. breaks us out of our individualistic, isolated lives and mindsets (it is just more fun to share life with folks)

This is a little outside our Detroit digs, but this church looks too interesting to pass up, plus they share some nomenclature with our Detroit Villages!

Urban Village Church is looking for a worship leader that can rock out, but who can also go full tilt "Sufjan" on the congregation at times. Job description below, and check out their church here:

Web Site: http://www.newchicagochurch.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-IL/Urban-Village-Church-Chicago/13...
Twitter: http://twitter.com/uvchurch

Carl

A friend of mine asked me to rant a bit on what kind of ministries I'm interested in when it comes to working with young adults and college students. Here's what I came up with as the kind of missional system that would hold my attention and maybe that of the broader church too!

My favorite email of the week -

"Twenty somthing married Emerging/Emergent Christian seeking church. Must be sophisticated-seeker, spirit-inspired-artist and disenchanted-cradle-Christian friendly. Welcoming of questions, a little healthy dissent and active involvement in areas normally reserved for church elders (in every sense of the word elder) a must. Would prefer it resembled a family or community more than a megachurch.

Signed
churchless in suburbia"

Brochure and application for the Detroit Annual Conference "Summer Jobs With a Mission" programs available now.

Consider signing up for a job this summer with Michigan UMC camps, mission projects, and ministry internships.

If you've ever wanted your summer to matter, these jobs are for you! If you know of friends or other young adults who might be interested, send them these links:

2010 Detroit Annual Conference Summer Jobs With a Mission Brochure

Press Release

First United Methodist Church of Ferndale
Nov. 5, 2009

Who says you have to be an early riser to have an uplifting experience on Sunday? Not Ferndale First United Methodist Church. Starting November 8, they will begin having a 12:15 p.m. “Sunday Light” service. Sunday Light a contemporary worship experience in a casual atmosphere. They’ll even provide the food and coffee to get you up and going. A light brunch will be served at 12:15 and you’ll sit at comfortable tables so you can continue to munch during the praise and worship.