North Shore Narrative

My good friend Brian Fleming is leaving Boston. He finished his time at the seminary and is now becoming a pastor at a church in Dallas, TX. As a colleague at Starbucks, he helped to make work bearable. We both worked under the notion that it is just coffee and cake-kaffee und kuchen-, and not the savior of our world and the meaning to our everday lives as some of the rhetoric from the corporate overlords tends to convey.

Cheers Brian! I am so envious that you have defrocked the green apron. I offer this video as a monument to our many dialogues over chimay and our mutual intersst over the greatest pop-cultural decade of our century, the 80's.

Sinners and Saints has come to its end as a church. It's end comes not as an end of community, since many of the people of S and S remain intiricately involved with each others lives. We all feel that it is a positive move of the community of the S and S, and that we are now enabled to particiapte in other surrounding local church communitites. This has been the history of S and S, where as Gentry writes, " after almost five years together, most of our members have been dispersed around the country where they are expressing the Kingdom of God in manifold and marvelous ways."

I am honored to have become a part of this fellowship despite joining at it's chronological tail end.  I honestly believed that i could not have made it my first year in Boston without the generous hand of Gentry, Kelly, Brooke, James, and Cade. Each of these individuals have been a tremendous blessing in my life, and for each of these individuals I give thanks to our God.

It is so remarkable how our ethos has been so similar to Mars Hill church in Dallas, and that in the manner of Mars Hill, even for us to stop the administration of sacrament on a weekly basis still does not constitute the end of our eucharistic celebration of commnunity.  Returning home two weeks ago showed me the love and care that many of the mars hillians have for each other after so many years and after its church closure. I know that this will be the case for those of the S and S.

These are the last days at my place at Beverly. I chose to move in with fellows from my school that live in Ipswich. I personally would rather continue to live on Cabot st., but all things considered the move to Ipswich is the frugal one. The drive up 1A to my new place is a beatiful drive that cuts through historic towns and lets me see far into pleasant fields and a surrounding lake.I have good friends from the school that live in the neighborhood, so I am sure we will grill and enjoy drinks unnderneath the New England summer sun. I plan to stay there the remainder of summer, and then hopefully make the move into the south end of Boston.

I've missed the first two classes of German due to my trip to Dallas. The first was planned, and  the second was unintentional. My connecting flight back to Boston was cancelled, and the only next flight available was that next morning. I was put into  an inexpenisve hotel where i gathered worries about perhaps now being too far behind in class. I truly want to learn German, and to stay with it throughout the next school year.  There are a couple of people I know that know German who are willing to lend a hand by conversation. I figure that if I leave Gordon-Conwell with anything, it will be a sensible grasp of German

Much Love to the Nygrens for their Hospitality during my stay in Dallas. I had such a great time opening that blue bottle of Chimay and pouring forth its contents into glass goblets. Incomparably smooth was the vintage.