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.