A Call to New Yorkers!

~ by Samir Selmanovic

On June 26, our family moved into a two-bedroom apartment.  The girls have bunk beds in their room.  Vesna’s and my bedroom doubles as my office, our living room doubles as a guest room, and, best of all, we have a covered patio to accommodate more guests!  And that’s where you come in. 

School for our daughters begins the first week of September, so before the new routine begins, we want to connect with our old friends and meet some new ones.  So, if you are reading this blog and you live in New York City or in the vicinity, and you want to help Faith House become a wholistic community, please come to a party at our home! 

We have come a long way since the group we call “prime movers,” or Family Support Team formed, and we were blessed by receiving endorsements from a variety of advisors as they wrote and published articles on this blog to help us grapple with a multitude of issues, which all culminated in us actually coming to this city. 

But this is only just a beginning.  The next step is to build a Faith House Launch Team, a group of people that will assist us in launching this new congregation.  There are countless questions to be answered, tasks to be accomplished, and prayers to be said.  We cannot start this without you.

So please join us for the birth of this great adventure!  We would love to have you be an integral part from the very beginning.

When? Saturday, August 18, 2007, 4pm and into the evening.

Where?  Our apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (86th St. and 2nd Ave).  Please email to RSVP or if you need directions by clicking HERE .

What to bring?  Love, courage, curiosity, wisdom, and peace (dinner will be provided along with a sweet movie in the evening).

Whom to bring?  Your friends and family that would be interested to help launch this venture of faith.  (Of course, your children are welcome too!)

Just recently I heard a song on my daughter’s iPod by John Mayer titled “Waiting On the World to Change”.  The poet is troubled.  Here’s how he starts:

Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could

Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it

So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
…

Well, there’s no more waiting for us!  Faith House is an exercise in impatience!  And this month we’re going to establish the dates and the tasks that will take us to the launch date!   

Those of you who live around here but can’t make it on August 18, please contact me.  I would love to meet with you some other time.

Those of you who are far away, all around the world, and thus can’t come to our home later this month, please stay in touch.  Pray, support, and keep telling us if we are making sense, or if we are not!  We have never felt so dependent on God, and God’s people, in our whole lives.  We brace ourselves as we face the immediate unknown future. 

Comments

[Danette]

I know you have many people praying for you. May God bless you as you continue His calling for you and for all involved in Faith House :)