http://tautoko.info/2006/11/09/texas-am-football/ Das Weblog von Johannes Kleske zu Social Media, Konzeption, Marketing, Cafes, Barcamp, Web 2.0, Streetart etc. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:26:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://tautoko.info/2006/11/09/texas-am-football/#comment-7933 Journeyfiles » Blog Archive » Houston Reflections: Being big and thinking small Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:03:45 +0000 http://tautoko.info/2006/11/09/texas-am-football/#comment-7933 [...] But what I loves about our meeting was, that it felt smaller. It was and never has been an “emergent-church-what’s-the-fuss-all-about” Gathering or even something the like of a meeting. We ate together, we laughed a lot. The spirit of this meeting was captured for me personally in a relationship of early morning encounters with Becky Shuman - she gets up at 4:15 am every morning to go to work and was kind enough to listen to my babbling at this hour and even respond decently. I am the kind of person who gets up early in the morning in order to write or think or just phone my wife. Becky cared and build a relationship with a german dude in his early morning state - what a gift! Then of course Wellspring, SafeSpace, Kubik and @home all of them are small communities, Solomons Porch would be the biggest among them. But gathered were people of relationships, we danced texas twostep, we went to football games (Johannes in german and Mark Berry in english) and finaly, yes, we did talk about a way of learning from each other, globally, interrelated, but independend communities. I found people over there who want to stay true to the calling that has been given to them. Including thinking small in a big, big country and yet be aware of the fact, that many people might be influenced by what they talk, decide or do. What a dream it could be to build up something where we can learn from each other. What a gift I have been given to be among those people. I fanybody asks now: What have you been doing over there? “Building relationships with other people”, I will respond, “thinking small, but being really big about learning from my family all across the globe.” [...] [...] But what I loves about our meeting was, that it felt smaller. It was and never has been an “emergent-church-what’s-the-fuss-all-about” Gathering or even something the like of a meeting. We ate together, we laughed a lot. The spirit of this meeting was captured for me personally in a relationship of early morning encounters with Becky Shuman - she gets up at 4:15 am every morning to go to work and was kind enough to listen to my babbling at this hour and even respond decently. I am the kind of person who gets up early in the morning in order to write or think or just phone my wife. Becky cared and build a relationship with a german dude in his early morning state - what a gift! Then of course Wellspring, SafeSpace, Kubik and @home all of them are small communities, Solomons Porch would be the biggest among them. But gathered were people of relationships, we danced texas twostep, we went to football games (Johannes in german and Mark Berry in english) and finaly, yes, we did talk about a way of learning from each other, globally, interrelated, but independend communities. I found people over there who want to stay true to the calling that has been given to them. Including thinking small in a big, big country and yet be aware of the fact, that many people might be influenced by what they talk, decide or do. What a dream it could be to build up something where we can learn from each other. What a gift I have been given to be among those people. I fanybody asks now: What have you been doing over there? “Building relationships with other people”, I will respond, “thinking small, but being really big about learning from my family all across the globe.” [...]

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