Because of the impending thunderstorm doom forecasted for tonight, our trek to movie night at Schenley Park has been cancelled for June 29th. An email notification has been sent out, but if you can think of any people who were considering going, but don’t check their email every 15 seconds, it would be great if you could contact them.

See everyone at our regular scheduled time on Thursday!

After surviving another grueling week of “real life,” we met up again for the second Project:Fracture meeting/gathering/whatever. Fueled once again by the culinary skills of our own Marissa, we discussed our study options for the summer.

Because of our late sign-up date, we just received our Relevant Network kit in the mail today, so we spent some time looking through the books and listening to the CDs that were included this quarter.

Books

• The Vow by Ed Gungor
• The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment by Tim Challies
• Deadly Viper by Mike Foster and Jud Wilhite
• Walking With God by John Edlredge
• The Gospel and Personal Evangelism by Mark Dever

CDs

• Leeland Opposite Way
• The Bridge Band Love
• Jared Anderson Where Faith Comes From
• After Edmund Hello

DVDs

• Everything Is Spiritual (Rob Bell)

After some discussion and a vote, we decided to start with Walking With God by John Edlredge. We’ll create an online form over the weekend so that anyone who wants to order one can do so on Monday. I’ll order the books on Tuesday and try to have them to MCC by Thursday (we’ll see how fast shipping can be!). We don’t have the budget to purchase books for everyone, so if you want a book, we’d appreciate it if you’d chip in $16 to help cover the cost of books + shipping.

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If reading a book seems overwhelming, don’t worry… there’s also an audio book on CD or for download from Amazon. But, you’ll have to pick that up on your own if you want it.

After we picked our study book, we watched the Rob Bell Everything Is Spiritual DVD from his national speaking tour. In the video, Rob discusses creation as described in Genesis 1 and its implications to science, faith, and being a human. If you’ve got an hour or so, it’s definitely worth the time. If you watched it and liked it, check out some of his other work at Nooma or at Mars Hill.

Next meeting: Thursday, June 26 @ 7:30 pm

It’s official. Project:Fracture has begun!

We had our kick-off event tonight with copious amounts of food and beverage, provided by Marissa. If you missed out on tonight’s meeting, fear not. There were leftovers, and we will bring the non-perishables to next week’s meeting.

Tonight, we played a rousing round of Apples to Apples, followed by several rounds of electronic Catch Phrase. Both of which sufficiently broke any “ice” that people may have felt. It was a great turn-out for our first meeting… we had 10 people!

For anyone who was curious about the Relevant Magazine I mentioned tonight, check out their website for more info. FYI, their weekly podcast is hilarious. I highly recommend it (especially if you think you might like random discussion involving Gary Busey and badgers).

In other news, we’re on Facebook (Thanks, Eddie)! So check us out there if that’s your kind of thing.

Next meeting: Thursday, June 19 @ 7:30 pm

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Welcome to the brand spanking new home of Project:Fracture, a new ministry of Murrysville Community Church [ view MCC site » ].

If you are in college, have started your career, or are between the ages of 19 and 30, this group is for you!

Our first (a.k.a. “the kick-off”) meeting will be:
Thursday, June 12
7:30-9:30 pm
@ MCC.

There will be various snacks of both the salty and sweet varieties, so be sure to tell your friends and head over to MCC on Thursday (and every Thursday ever after).