Saturday, December 6th: Parade of Lights

Join re:create as we head downtown for the annual parade of lights. For those of you who haven't been before, it is a Christmas parade where all of the floats and bands are decked out in Christmas lights. We plan on meeting at the Mineral Light Rail Station around 4:30 p.m. to head downtown. We'll watch the parade and then grab a bite to eat downtown (dinner, coffee, dessert...all three?). Depending on the weather, you might want to dress warm. I was down there a few years ago and it was FREEZING (standing on cold cement + zero degree weather + a friend from Texas not used to the weather = very cold, but we still had fun).

Sunday Novemer 30th

Join us for lunch following church (since we have to tear down say somewhere around 11:30-11:45 a.m.) at Il Vicino. It is located at Sante Fe and Prince (in the same strip as Baja Fresh, Starbucks, Subway).

who we are. why we are.

As a church we value community, we love to see people from all backgrounds come together under the basis of grace on an equal footing. It is an amazing thing that God does in bringing people with all sorts of different stories and experiences and makes them into one body. We experience it on Sunday mornings and for many of us in our home groups…different people, but brought together to grow with one another. There is value in the wisdom of those who have walked more life than we have, but there are times we want to be with people who are traveling alongside in a similar fashion of life experiencing similar things. Thus re:create.

re:create is for people at AGCC who are in their 20s and 30s who want to connect with one another. While it is not necessarily an environment for Bible study or worship…it is a formative environment for community. It creates time and space in our lives to connect with those who we can journey with. It is a time for us to be recreated through recreation. Our hope and desire is to be able to come on Sunday morning and not just see familiar faces but to know some of the lives of the people with whom we worship. As time continues, we’ll see where God takes these relationships, but for now we are spending time together. It might not appear overtly spiritual or “productive,” but as a mentor of mine once told me, “Intimacy is built in wasting time together.”