Hi friends! Looking forward to seeing you at our first meetup! As you may have seen from our description we are a fledgling experiment in freedom! We are exploring the simple church life! At our meetup we will first share a meal together; for the first meetup it will be our little offering to our guests! After that each meetup will be a potluck unless we have something else planned. We will share stories about our life in New Mexico and things God has done for us and perhaps things everyone would like to see happen in their future. The focus will mainly be getting to know new friends! We may have some time sharing from the Scriptures (not lengthy) and a few words of encouragement. We like to include prayer in all we do. Our objective is getting to know Jesus better and learning to experience Him in greater ways. Rather than a preacher-centered church life we envision get togethers where Jesus is the center and everyone can share and participate in some way. Each weekly meetup may be somewhat different. As for exploring freedom issues, we plan to take one week per month to focus on what Scripture has to say about civil government, our rights and responsibilities as Christians, how to get a basic grasp of our Constitution, the spiritual heritage of our Republic, and ways we can defend liberty today...and why! Since the Bible relates to all areas of life we will seek to see how it relates to our own situation today as regards freedom. The other weekly gatherings will focus on more general areas of Biblical or spiritual interest. At future meetups we will plan some future fun events as well. Those events would include things like going out to dinner (or breakfast!), attending a sporting event together, taking day trips out to scenic areas, short hikes, (uhm, short!), maybe a board game night, parties for just about any reason, etc.! We want to include the children in most of our activities too. Who said church life has to be boring? Come with a sense of humor, desire to meet and get to know others and a desire to experience a new kind of spiritual adventure that we call simple church. So simple anyone can do it!