Monday, February 06, 2012
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Alternative Spring Break to Cincinnati!

Why spend all that money on transportation when it could do good here in the Queen City? Join us for a week of volunteering (after dinner March 18-before dinner March 24) with the Freestore/Foodbank, Matthew 25 Ministries, The Civic Garden Center, Gabriel's Place, Building Value, and a river clean-up with WAVE. In the evenings, we'll split our time between touristy fun in Cincinnati and deeper conversations about the nature of poverty and inequality (may include a tour of underground Cincinnati...). We'll be staying at First Lutheran Church in Over the Rhine and treating the trip like a more distant service trip, so no going back to your dorm for something you forgot. The money we save by staying in town will be divided among the agencies we serve. Cost of the trip is only $25, due by February 19, 2012. We have a total of 47 spaces available, with 16 being reserved for Edge House regulars, first-come-first-served. (Your space will be reserved when we receive your $25.) Please contact Pastor Alice at pastor@edge-uc.org for more information. Checks can be sent to LCM at the Edge, 3007 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45213.

We'll have volunteer opportunities every month so you can help save the world. We have worship every week so you can remember why you're saving the world. We have discipleship groups and bible studies so you know how to save the world. We have a Google calendar so you can remember when everything is.
So you can, you know, save the world.

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Google Calendar

Discipleship Readings

Missed a week? Want to share something we read with someone else? Check the list below for PDFs of our discipleship group readings:


Week of September 26, 2010: introduction to the Formed curriculum
Week of October 3, 2010:"Moving from Solitude to Community to Ministry" by Henri Nouwen
Week of October 10, 2010: excerpt from Confessions by St. Augustine
Week of October 17, 2010: three short "Thoughts for the Day" from the BBC here, here, and here
Week of October 24, 2010: The Lanyard and The Survivor's Prayer and the YouTube video Carolyn suggested called "How To Be Alone"

Week of October 31, 2010: first section of the chapter on Simplicity from Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline and the Spending Habits guide, watch this great Taylor Mali video
Week of November 7, 2010: watch The Merchants of Cool (about 40 minutes long)
Week of November 14, 2010: second section of the chapter on Simplicity from Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline and this guided meditation
Week of November 28, 2010: third and final section of the chapter on Simplicity from Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline

Week of January 2, 2011: how was your break? how was your Simplicity discipline over break? read Kathleen Norris' chapter on study from Amazing Grace, consider  these quotations
Week of January 23, 2011: introduction from Harold Bloom's How to Read and Why

Week of February 6, 2011: this definition of vocation from Friedrich Buechner's Wishful Thinking and these two excerpts from Kathleen Norris' Quotidian Mysteries

Week of April 3, 2011: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Leguin
Week of April 10, 2011: excerpt from Love Wins by Rob Bell
Week of April 17, 2011: excerpt from The Quotidian Mysteries by Kathleen Norris
Week of April 24, 2011: for the life of me, I can't remember what we read this week--ideas?
Week of May 1, 2011: one-page essay on spiritual friendships
Week of May 8, 2011: "Listening for the Voice of God"
Week of May 15, 2011: