The book will be released in time for Advent. An exciting opportunity presents itself for us to be truly praying together as a broad community of communities–churches, live-in communities, and families. To celebrate this, part of the book’s budget is helping local areas host release parties to give out free copies of Common Prayer (which will sell for about $25).

Holy Grounds at Fairlington Presbyterian Church has offered to host a party for this area. The party will be on Sunday, December 5th at 7 pm @ Fairlington Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, VA. Because there will be a limited number of free copies, if you want to be in the lottery for a free copy, we’ll need you to register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1001781355. At the party, we’ll have the opportunity for different churches and communities to connect and for us to pray and sing some of the prayers together.

To whet your appetite, check out www.commonprayer.net and download the free PDF sample. The book is a work of art in itself–our prayer together will enrich and enliven the tapestry and hopefully draw us closer to one another and God. I hope to see many of you in December!

We’ll be discussing Money and Relational Giving, how we share and use our money within our specific communities/lives and how we can do well to learn how to share it amongst others. All are welcome! I look forward to a meaningful discussion with you all.

My community, Casa Chirilagua, will be hosting. Our address is 3913 Elbert Ave, Alexandria, VA. The closest metro is Pentagon City. Let me know if you’d like a pick up at 434-962-4927.

Looking forward to seeing you all once again!

Matt

Casa Chirilagua, will be hosting. Our address is 3913 Elbert Ave, Alexandria, VA. The closest metro is Pentagon City. Let me know if you’d like a pick up at 434-962-4927.

Can’t wait to see you all once again!

We’ve been off our rhythm for the last few months, so it will be good to get back into it.

You don’t have to be living in community to come to the prayer and share—anyone interested in community is welcome. Please spread the word to anyone you think would be interested.

We’ll be having a party the evening of Saturday, December 20th at 6pm  in the Lower Level of Fairlington Presbyterian (3846 King St, Alexandria, VA).  Bring heavy hors d’oeuvres and drinks (no alcohol) to share with everyone.

It will be a great way for us to get to hang out together—perhaps they’ll even be some dancing, or a hootenanny, suggestions are welcome.

Everyone is interested in intentional Christian community is welcome, whether or not they’ve been a part of our gatherings before or if they are currently a part of an intentional Christian community.

 

We will be gathering this Thursday June 5 at 7:30 pm at Casa Chirilagua.

 

The address is:

3808 Russell Road

Apt C12

Alexandria VA 22305

 

If you see the Wafle Shop you know you are there… we live right behind it.

 

We are looking forward to hearing and sharing more about how the Lord is moving throughout the area in the lives of different individuals and communities…

Prayer and Share

Begins: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 at 7:00 PM

Ends: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 at 10:00 PM

Location: 3808 Russell Rd

Apt. C-12

Alexandria, VA 22305

Our monthly time of sharing what’s going on in our communities.

Prayer and Share

Begins: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 at 7:00 PM

Ends: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 at 10:00 PM

Location: Casa Chirilagua

3808 Russell Rd Apt C12

Alexandria, VA

The DC Area Community of Communities will be gathering at Casa Chirilagua this month. Lots of exciting things are happening and it will be great seeing everyone and praying with one another. We’ll also spend some time discussing our upcoming retreat in November.

If you are planning to come, let me know so we can be on the lookout for you.

If you want to metro, the closest stop is Braddock and we can send someone to pick you up. Let me know.

IMPORTANT PARKING INFORMATION:
Park behind MOM’s (My Organic Market) 3831 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria, VA

As usual, Some of Us will be meeting at the Crystal City Sports pub at around 5:30 for half-priced burgers ($5 gets you a burger, fries and includes tax and a 40% tip). E-mail info@dc.newmonastics.org if you plan to come.

Common Prayer Release Party!

Hello Friends!
For the past couple years, I’ve been blessed to be a part (with Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Enuma Orkoro as editors) of a beautiful project called Common Prayer, a mosaic of prayers, liturgies, and songs from communities around the globe. These have been woven into daily offices for morning, noon, and evening prayers in the style of the Book of Common Prayer.

The book will be released in time for Advent. An exciting opportunity presents itself for us to be truly praying together as a broad community of communities–churches, live-in communities, and families. To celebrate this, part of the book’s budget is helping local areas host release parties to give out free copies of Common Prayer (which will sell for about $25).

Holy Grounds at Fairlington Presbyterian Church has offered to host a party for this area. The party will be on Sunday, December 5th at 7 pm @ Fairlington Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, VA. Because there will be a limited number of free copies, if you want to be in the lottery for a free copy, we’ll need you to register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1001781355. At the party, we’ll have the opportunity for different churches and communities to connect and for us to pray and sing some of the prayers together.

To whet your appetite, check out www.commonprayer.net and download the free PDF sample. The book is a work of art in itself–our prayer together will enrich and enliven the tapestry and hopefully draw us closer to one another and God. I hope to see many of you in December!

Summer News:
Thanks to all who participated in Converge! We had a great day hanging out, listening to seminars from various leaders in the D.C. Area, playing music, and much more!

There will not be an August Prayer and Share due to vacations and some communities in transition with new roommates and such. Look for a potluck/get together sometime this month, and then our normal prayer and share again starting next month.

News as of May 2010

Prayer and share is now the 1st Tuesday of the month.

Our C of C retreat will hopefully be in June, perhaps the weekend of the 25th.

We are exploring the possibility of having a summer gathering, gathering communities from the immediate region for a day of seminars and speakers and music. This would hopefully also feature the new documentary, Return to El Salvador, a film by Jamie Moffitt from the Simple Way.

News from Dec. Prayer and Share

Dates: As much as possible, Prayer and Share will now be held on the 1st Tuesday each month (the next gathering will be January 26th)-Communities interested in hosting should try to keep it on this day each month.

Content: We decided that from now on, our gatherings will be 1 part community prayers and announcements (what we’ve been doing so far) and 1 part discussion/interaction/
teaching/sharing. This might look different each month, but the consensus was having some sort of topical discussion or sharing.

If there are other topics that you would find interesting and would like to hear from other people about, send me your ideas (ex. conflict, roommate discernment, sexuality, etc). We’re trying to create a “menu” of topics to make it easy each month to decide what to discuss. This also could open us up to the possibility of occasionally having outside speakers lead us in discussion or share with us.

Conspire Magazine: Currently, DC Community of Communities is a co-Conspirator for this magazine through the Simple Way. We decided not to renew our subscription after the 4th issue, as the cost seems too great. Instead, I will be trying to coordinate getting a handful of copies from Schools for Conversion each quarter to distribute at meetings and to communities. The cost will be $3/issue, so you or your community will be able to decide how many copies you’d like and just pay for them that way.

Retreat: We hope to have a retreat in June at St. Anselm’s Abbey in NE D.C.