Last week at our gathering one of the women asked about a church directory. She wanted to be able to get in touch with the members of her new community. Another person spoke up about wanting to have the information of someone who had been coming to events who had suffered a bereavement. It quickly was apparent that the Facebook page was just not adequate in keeping those who are here connected to one another.
I was a little surprised because I’m still very much in creation mode. We just started our first weekly gathering in May and our second at the beginning of this month. I’m still working to identify people who might be interested and inviting them in. This is one of the exciting and challenging parts of this new start work. To be long term sustainable that constant drive to invite new people, and create new gatherings must live alongside being present to the people who are already here. I’ve been devoting 100% of my time to creation, now part of that must go to curation. The danger of course is to let the pendulum swing too far and stop creation, stop inviting people in, or stop networking in my community. I get to live in the tension of finding the best ways to add new folks while making sure the folks who are part of the Sellwood Faith Community are actually part of healthy systems that connect them to one another and help further their discipleship.
I’m not sure how we’re going to do this curation work. It too is an experiment in how this funky little faith community lives out our call to follow God. We’ve talked about some options, including one day having a recipe book to share our amazing dinners. Right now we’re going to try a closed Facebook group. While our church is open to all we really don’t want to share our contact details worldwide. The Facebook page will serve as our open invitation while the closed group serves as our communication hub. gI’ll let you know how it goes.
-Eilidh
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