Fellowship at 441

Willow Creek recently did a series on the importance of inviting people into your home, into your "space." How by inviting people in you are opening the door for real conversations, deep relationships and for people to be truly seen. 

The residents of 441 Crescent love this. We value community, friendship,  vulnerability, FUN and we value prayer.  And. We want to "do" each of these with you in our living room! 

We hope to foster an environment where old friends and new friends can come together to catch up on what God is doing in our lives, what we are learning and share how we are growing. We can encourage, pray and laugh with one another! There will be no agenda, no expectations, and no schedule other than prayers and praises to wrap things up. We are hoping and praying for a space where we can each just show up, be seen and be loved AND everyone is invited. 

Starting one week from today, every Tuesday night from 7:30 - 9:00pm we will be hosting what will be dubbed as "Fellowship at 441"... it is a come as you are, bring a snack if you want, bring some scripture or a passage that you felt prompted to share, or don't and just show up... thats most important anyways. 

Hope to see you soon!! Invite your friends and soon-to-be friends. 

Lots of Love, 

441 Girls

P.S. Here is some inspiration and further reading on vulnerability :D 

I have been learning a lot lately about the importance of vulnerability and what it means to be a whole-hearted person, from the likes of Brene Brown, Donald Miller, Glennon Melton and Shauna Niequist! A lot of the things I have been reading lately are about being true to yourself TO yourself and also being willing to be fully yourself to other people. By being vulnerable we can experience the world more fully and invite others to do the same.  So often people just want to be heard, to be seen and to be loved. It is important that we are seen, heard and loved for exactly who we are... not the appearance that we put on.

 A couple of quotes I love: 

"If we're going to find our way back to each other, vulnerability is going to be that path. And I know it's seductive to stand outside the arena, because I think I did it my whole life, and think to myself, I'm going to go in there and kick some ass when I'm bulletproof and when I'm perfect. And that is seductive. But the truth is that never happens. And even if you got as perfect as you could and as bulletproof as you could possibly muster when you got in there, that's not what we want to see. We want you to go in. We want to be with you and across from you. And we just want, for ourselves and the people we care about and the people we work with, to dare greatly.

"True friendship is a sacred, important thing, and it happens when we drop down into that deeper level of who we are, when we cross over into the broken, fragile parts of ourselves. We have to give something up in order to get friendship like that. We have to give up our need to be perceived as perfect. We have to give up our ability to control what people think of us. We have to overcome the fear that when they see the depth of who we are, they’ll leave. But what we give up is nothing in comparison to what this kind of friendship gives to us. Friendship is about risk. Love is about risk. If we can control it and manage it and manufacture it, then it’s something else, but if it’s really love, really friendship, it’s a little scary around the edges." Shauna Niequist