Beginning this year our Lakeview and Lincoln Park leadership and staff teams and their families started having monthly gatherings. We call this group the CORE team. We decided to begin meeting this way to create deeper relationships among our staff and leaders. Each time we gather, our host determines the agenda but mostly its eating, praying, worshiping, talking and hanging out. Deeper connections--that's what we're pursuing with these gatherings.
One of my favorite aspects--my kids look forward to these nights. My prayer is that my children grow up feeling it was a privilege to have a dad who is also a pastor--too many pastor's kids grow up bitter toward the church.
For last night's gathering Mike and Rachel H. were our hosts. We had pizza and then headed over to Waveland Bowl for a friendly game of (you're not going to believe this) bowling. (Sidenote: I had pretty much had enough of the music videos playing on screens down by the pins during our bowling well before Toto's "Africa" graced us with its 80's passion and big hair.)
Thankfully, the bowling was just a friendly game so it doesn't matter that my team was the winner. Seriously. By a lot; I mean big margins. My team doesn't gloat. "If you have to crush the opponent, crush them with dignity" was our motto and I feel like we did that. At least the crushing part. We have no need to brag about our massive score in light of their puny score.
Jose, Maria, Esteban, Shanda, Gillian, and whoever the other person was on your team (Elisa?), don't hang your heads. You were just beaten by a superior opponent. The important thing is that we all feel closer and more connected now. (One more sidenote: I discovered another member of our team who suffers from Bowling Butt--we don not have to suffer alone!)
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