February 7th, 2008 - RIC Meeting

This was Janice and Mary’s first meeting. Their insight and energy was appreciated. The word about RIC is spreading and, as more Creator members hear about the effort the more people volunteer to do something to make it happen.

We shared stories of people who felt the pain of being excluded from the church. Gretchen brought in a book unChristian by David Kinnaman. The book contains data from surveys of outsiders to Christianity (ages 18 to 29) about their perception of Christianity. The percentages showed that most saw Christians as somewhat or very anti-homosexual. A very strong reason that if we want to welcome homosexuals to worship that the welcome be explicit.

RIC Training is coming to Portland in March. This is incredible timing for us and Creator is taking advantage with a number of us already signed up. We talked about ways to spread the word on the training as well.