More than more this Thursday night

Hey everyone!  I know next week is Christmas and a lot of people may be gone this week, but Mtm is going to be getting together this Thursday night, the 20th of December, from 645-800 pm.  As always we will have awesome childcare - free - and it will be s great time hanging out together.


would love to see you there!

Thanksgiving and Mtm

Hi everyone!

Hope you are all having a great beginning to your holiday season!

Needless to say, our last Mtm Thursday was not a time together, as it fell on Thanksgiving day - so, I hope you all had turkey and pie and enjoyed the day with other people you love.

But, now that we are in the throws of the holiday season, you might wanna take a break from the crazy and hang out with us a Mtm this Thursday night, December 6th, at McAllister Recreation center - just off 20th and Schuyler Ave, Lafayette.

As always, we will be hanging out from 645-800 PM and will have free, excellent childcare for kids thru 7th grade.  Older kids are welcome to hang out at the recreation center and play and use their facilities, which were made for fun.

Mtm is a great time to relax, laugh, and enjoy some people who care about you not for what you provide to them , but just because you are you.

Each time we gather together, we notice the wonder in this world given by a God who truly loves - seeking to move beyond the more of this and more of that mindset which seems to dominate our world.  And we savor the wonder and brokenness of each other and the people around us by looking for ways to notice people.  It is a good reminder of what life is really about.

Hope that you can join us!

Morethanmore tomorrow night!

Hey everyone!  We had a great outreach 2wks ago.  It was so good to be together and serve - sharing the goodness of God's love with some folks who needed it.

We will be back at McAllister Rec Center this Thursday night, the 8th of November, from 645-800pm - it is always a great time and we look forward to sharing the evening with you.

Keep Noticing...

Outreach Thursday Oct 25th

Hey guys!

This coming Mtm, this Thursday, the 25th of October, we will have an outreach.  We will be serving Jerry and Janet's friends Shane and Cari and their kids Bridget (toddler) and Caleb (infant).

Cari was diagnosed w stage 4 cancer when Caleb was just a baby and has been going thru chemo all summer and still (her next dose is actually Thursday, but she will be back for the outreach).

We will be meeting at their house (6343 w 200 n, Delphi, IN, 46923) at 6:00 Thursday evening.  Mtm will provide dinner.

We will be working on a paver walk from the driveway to the back patio door (already started), so they can get Cari from the car to the house when she needs to use a wheelchair.

so, need shovels, work gloves, strong backs

Also pruning some trees

so, need tree saws, step ladders, work gloves, loppers (if anyone has one, maybe an extension chain saw)

and moving a bunch of firewood

so, we need work gloves, and maybe a couple wheelbarrows

and organizing and cleaning out a shed

so, some organizing minds ready to work


We will meet there at 6.  If you are sick, please do not plan to go into the house, as we do not want to get Cari sick, but her immune system will not be bad on this day, so everyone who is not sick is ok to use the inside for restrooms.

If you are able to go early, please shoot me a text, as some people may be there early.  Please follow the weather carefully, as it may be cold - dress appropriately.

Also, the road they live on is kinda busy, but they own a lot of land, so just make sure you are aware of where your kids are - and the kids are more than welcome!

It is always good to get out and serve some people and share the goodness of God's love w people - and the more hands we have the more blessing we tend to give, not to mention the quicker and the more work we can do - so, plan to join us!!

hope to see you all there!

Tomorrow evening is Mtm

Just reminding you all that Mtm is tomorrow night, September 13th, - 645-800pm at McAllister Recreation Center - just off 20th and Schuyler Ave - Lafayette
It is always a great time and we hope to see you there!

Thursday is Mtm!!

Hey everyone!  This Thursday, the 30th of August, from 645-800pm is Morethanmore.  We will be hanging out at McAllister Recreation Center - just off 20th and Schuyler ave, in Lafayette.

It is always an enjoyable time - full of laughter and goodness.

Hope you can make it!

Outreach Next Thursday the 16th!!

Hey everyone!

Mtm is a group that is centered around noticing

 - noticing the wonder and goodness of God in everyday life, and then looking for ways to connect w Him in our everyday lives

and

- noticing the people around us - that they are hurting and broken just like we are, and yet that they are wonderful and amazingly made, just like we are - and looking for ways to reach out into their worlds and serve/love them well

We are trying to LIVE out a better way in this crazy world that is so consumed w getting more, being more, becoming more, achieving more, buying more, etc.


A part of that has always been that we try to serve - to love people w practical things.

But, we always try to serve people we know and in personal ways that grow our relationships - basically, our service is part of and an extension of, our noticing - we notice, we care, we love - many times with practical service (either personally, or as a group)

Over the years, this has taken the shape of many outreach projects - and this coming Thursday, the 16th, we will have another outreach.

These are super fun and you need to plan to be there.

This time, we will be working to clean up the yard of a friend of ours, Kathy, at her house:

738 Main St
Dayton, IN 47941.

This will begin at 6:30.  We will meet at her house - and there will be dinner.  We will finish when we finish, but i will be before dark.

We will be doing:

Trimming bushes, trees, etc - so we need loppers, trimmers, saws, ladders, tarps, pruners, step stools
Draining a water heater/checking it - hot water has a funny smell
Flower bed clean out, pull all weeds - so we need shovels, hand tools, gloves, weeding tools
Cutting down some small trees - rope, saws, maybe pick axe for stumps
Moving some stuff around in the house - need strong backs and arms

and anything else you can think we might need for these projects.

We really hope to see you there - it will be a great time.

in the meantime, keep noticing...

Tomorrow Night is Mtm!!

Hey everyone - we will be hanging out at McAllister Recreation Center- just off 20th and Schuyler Ave, Lafayette - from 645-800pm tomorrow night - the 2nd of August.  It is always an awesome time to hang out, laugh, relax and continue to work at reorienting our thinking and our lives to a better way than just the usual "get more" "buy more" "achieve more" "be more" "have more" of our culture.

would love to see you there!

Tonight

Tonight is Mtm, July 19th - we will be hanging out at McAllister Center- just off 20th and Schuyler Ave - Lafayette - 645-8pm

if you are looking for something More to life - tired of the usual,
wen hope to see you there - it is always a great time.

This Thursday Outreach reschedule!

This thursday, July 5th, we will have our rescheduled outreach from a few wks ago.



...helping out an elderly lady w some yard work.

We will meet at her house this time, which is 8723 Stockwell Rd, Lafayette, at 6:00pm.  The earlier start time is to give us more time and to give us time to eat - yes, there will be dinner!!

There will not be childcare that will be organized, so come planning to know where your kids are, but it is out in the country and she has a huge yard to play in.  We have been there before and it is always a great time.

We will be doing a variety of things and so, you may bring something to help if you like:

bush trimming - trimmers, loppers, rakes, tarps, ladder - work gloves
leaves in the beds - rakes and blowers
flower bed weeding and redigging (she will provide dirt and plants) - need weeding tools, gloves, rakes, spades - maybe even a small tiller if someone has one
weed wacking
power washing vinyl siding - we will bring our power washer - someone might bring some extra hoses, just in case
kitchen door knob to outside put in - she has it already - but will need tools for this

We hope to see you - i know it is the day after a holiday, but waiting another 2wks just did not seem right!

cancelling outreach tonight - 2 wks instead

hey guys - because of the blasted rain we are cancelling the outreach tonight - instead pizza at our house - 6:00pm - we will have in 2wks instead, which is july 5th. - this is somewhat tentative and more will follow

Outreach Next Thursday

Hi everyone!
Next thursday, June 21st, we will have an outreach helping out an elderly lady w some yard work.

We will meet at her house this time, which is 8723 Stockwell Rd, Lafayette, at 6:00pm.  The earlier start time is to give us more time and to give us time to eat - yes, there will be dinner!!

There will not be childcare that will be organized, so come planning to know where your kids are, but it is out in the country and she has a huge yard to play in.  We have been there before and it is always a great time.

We will be doing a variety of things and so, you may bring something to help if you like:

bush trimming - trimmers, loppers, rakes, tarps, ladder - work gloves
leaves in the beds - rakes and blowers
flower bed weeding and redigging (she will provide dirt and plants) - need weeding tools, gloves, rakes, spades - maybe even a small tiller if someone has one
weed wacking
power washing vinyl siding - we will bring our power washer - someone might bring some extra hoses, just in case
kitchen door knob to outside put in - she has it already - but will need tools for this
Kitchen faucet dripping - may be fixable, may need new faucet - will need tools and may need to run to store for new faucet

looking forward to seeing you all there!!

Thursday night - Mtm

Hey guys - wanted to remind you that Mtm will be getting together this thursday, May 10th, from 645-800pm at McAllister recreation center - just off 20th and schuyler avenue - Lafayette - there will be awesome childcare as always and it will be a great time to hang out, laugh and be around some people who like you just because you are you.

an impromptu outreach

we just found out that some friends of ours, a dad and 3 year old daughter, are starting over in a new apartment, basically with nothing - they are just moving in this week - and it sounds like a great place for an outreach

so, tomorrow night, the 12th of april, we will meet at McAllister at the usual time - 645pm - but will head over to their place at about 655 and eat dinner and flood them w housewarming stuff

we can use any nonperishable food items still definitely - just bring them with you to give to them


there will not be child care - but kids are welcome - just make sure you plan to keep an eye on your kids.

thanks and looking forward to seeing you all!!

An update, and an explanation

Well, 2 wks ago we had a fantastic time at our outreach.  We were able to help a young lady get moved into and settled into her new place.  It was so fun to share food and conversation, laughter and love, as we served her.

I love those evenings of outreach and sharing God's love in our community - they are such a practical expression of a different way of viewing life to our world - and they seem to always make a difference to us and to those we serve.

For those of you who are not real familiar w Mtm's approach to service, let me kinda give you the idea.

We serve by helping people in any variety of ways - we have moved people, built laundry rooms, provided furniture, cleaned out houses, cleaned out yards, painted, landscaped and on and on the list could go - but we only serve in places where one or more than one of us knows the people we are serving.  We call this serving in relationship.  The reason we do it this way is that we feel it is the relationship - the love - that REALLY helps people - not the moving, the furniture, etc. And by serving, by sacrificing, by loving even when it costs us something, it allows the relationships to grow in trust.  Plus sacrificing means that we give up something of value for someone - and that value is not lost, it is invested in the other person's life.  In that sacrifice, they can find more value in themselves.  So, by serving and sacrificing, we literally can give someone value, or more precisely, we can awaken them to the value they have already been given when God made them.  We find that loving people in this way gets our minds off ourselves and helps us see what life is really about better too - so we find our true value better too!

You see, at Mtm, we spend a lot of time developing relationships - friendships.  And we spend a lot of time talking about, and working at, living life differently - less focused on getting more, buying more, being more, etc and on living to Notice the Goodness of God and relish that and live in the goodness of the moments and to Notice the brokenness of people (that makes them such a pain sometimes) and the wonder of people (that makes them worth more than anything else on this planet).

We are tired of a world that is so consumed w more - and we are determined to do our best to live differently and make the world a better place.

Serving is one of the ways we do this.

We will continue to serve and enjoy time being in our world.

Hope this opens up your minds a bit to the way Mtm works - if you are interested in hanging out w us (which by the way is super laid back and fun), we are going to be together next Thursday, the 29th of March, from 645-8pm at McAllister Recreation Center in Lafayette - which is just off 20th and Schuyler Ave.

as always there will free and excellent child care for kids up to about 5th grade and for older kids, the center is really a fun place to hang out.

Mtm outreach tomorrow night

We will meet at McAllister at our usual time tomorrow night, the 15th - 645pm - and we will go from there to our outreach - which will be moving someone into their new place!!

there will be food and good conversation as there is not tons to move in

this will be pretty informal so come ready to hang out, chat, and enjoy some time together!

looking forward to seeing you all!

tomorrow is Mtm

Hey everyone!  Wanted to remind you that Mtm is tomorrow night, 3/1/18 - 645-8pm - it will be an awesome time of hanging out, laughing and enjoying some time together.

As always, we will have free, excellent childcare.

Hope to see you there.

Mt tomorrow night

Hey everyone - i have been so negligent in writing - sorry - we will be hanging out tomorrow night 645-8pm at McAllister Rec Center in Lafayette - just off 20th and Schuyler Ave.

There will be free childcare as always.

it is always a good time to relax, to be with people who are kind and care no matter what baggage you bring.

hope to see you there