Deep Songs & Free Burritos for Peru!

Sufjan in Action

Thursday night, we continue our series, SONGS THAT SPEAK DEEP.  This week, two very  different picks as Katie Cooper sings & shares JJ Heller’s Love Me and Shaya tackles the allusive Sufjan Stevens For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Yipsilanti (yes, that really is the name!)  Don’t miss it!  We’ll wrap it up in time to head to our Peru Christmas 2009 Fundraiser Launch at Chipotle…

If you haven’t heard, invite your friends from 9-10PM tomorrow night to the Chipotle at Ken Caryl & C470.  It’s FREE BURRITOS FOR PERU CHRISTMAS ’09!! For any donation, we’ll buy anyone a burrito.  Remember, too, as a group, we’re challenging each of you to plan on at least $5 a week towards this project (we know some can do more, but we’re all committed to at least that!)  More details & promo on this to come.  While you wait, listen to tomorrow nights songs…

to be alone with you

HOPES & DREAMS 1: TO BE ALONE WITH YOU      craig nason

Sufjan Stevens sings a line of desire on his album Illinoise: “I’d swim across Lake Michigan.  I’d sell my shoes.  I’d give my body to be back again…in the rest of the room.  To be alone with you, to be alone with you…”  More from this song later, but for now consider the longing of the lyric— Stevens shares that he would do irrational, even impossible things, to have a place in time with nothing but the object of his desire.  I sense that this type of longing reflects our God’s desire to have union with us.  But I’m often aware that this kind of hoping for intimacy with the father is lacking in me.  Do I really want to be alone with God?  Really?  I decided to spend a night and day in the mountains a few weeks ago to find out…

for the widows in paradise

for our 2nd feature in the new Seasonal theme, “He Came For This”, we bring you this years brand-new Lima video, edited by Mike Simon.  It’s a sweet look at our time in Peru last summer, and the kids who keep us coming back…  It’s also a beautiful visual of why jesus came.  Enjoy:

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