A Regal Family Tree | Advent 2008

Original photo by: Lukáš Patkaň

THIS SATURDAY - HELP NEEDED!

This Saturday, a group of us are helping some youth who live in the Willowtree apartments clean and paint their resource rooms. We need as many hands as possible!

Details are on the practical needs community board here - call or reply on the board to let us know if you can make it.

Thanks!

Communion Potluck- This Sunday Nov 9th

This Sunday at TILT we are having our TILT communion potluck! As usual we are meeting at 6:30pm downstairs in the multipurpose room.

We don't assign food by name or anything like that, so if you are able to bring anything, please do. However, if you don't have time/money/whatever to prepare anything, don't worry about it! We always make extra and often those who need to take food home, we send some with them.

If you are able to come a bit earlier that evening to help set up (5:30pm onwards), that'd be great. If not, just come hungry :)

If you haven't been at a communion potluck before, a little background...the early Christian church celebrated communion over an entire meal, rather than just as part of a worship gathering. So, that is what we are doing at TILT - framing a meal together through the celebration of communion, so that the entire meal is communion.

Everyone is welcome -see you then!

A Call to Fast

This past Sunday we shared how we'd like to fast this week on behalf of Debbie. She is currently homeless and, particularly as the weather becomes increasing colder, we wanted to take the time to intentionally bring her before God as a community and pray for her housing situation.

We're beginning the fast tomorrow (Wed. October 29th). It can be a one day fast (or whatever you are comfortable with) from food. For those who would be fasting from something else that may not be significant over a mere 24 hour period (eg. television, facebook), an idea is to begin tomorrow and go through until Sunday. Then Sunday night, as part of our prayer time, we'll take time to pray for Debbie together.

Even if you aren't able to fast this week, please join with us in prayer through the day on Wednesday as we lift our friend up to God.

Light of the World Dec 14 2008 | YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!

As many of you know, each year we have an evening called "Light of the World"- on December 14 this year - it's a fun evening of singing funky Christmas songs arranged by Greg (K). There are amazing desserts. It's an event that you can bring any and all of your friends to. Check out last year's invitation here and story here.

For the past couple of years, we have read Christmas stories from Stuart McLean with accompanying visuals. This year, we'd like to write our own story...of YOUR STORIES. We're going to do a compilation of short stories that you send us. A small disclaimer: We won't necessarily be able to use all of the stories we receive and we'll have to edit them (in part) to fit in the script, flow and time of the evening.

So, we would love to hear some of your humourous, fun, bizarre, sorrowful, significant or meaningful Christmas stories. It might be about shopping, crazy meals, hilarious gifts, weird parties, good family times...whatever comes to mind that you want to share. Of course, we'll keep the stories as anonymous as you'd like. Please send them to this email address!! We need your stories by November 16th...

If you have any questions email Scott at scottgmoore [at] mac [dot] com or Matt at fattamatta [at] yahoo [dot] com.

Prayer from Sunday Night

Our focus on Sunday Night was on Celtic Spirituality and specifically the Celtic Prayer of Protection, known as Lorica Prayer. There are many of them. Find the one from our prayer time under the daily.

Spiritual Habit Resources

As you know, the TILT website has resources you can use for fostering spiritual habits in your life.

Check them out on Urban Monks.

What is an urban monk? Find out here.

Thank you, TILT'ers!

Good morning everyone...a few thank yous are in order...

(1) Thanks to everyone who was able to come on Wednesday night to Kate and Scott's. We hope you had a blast!

(2) Thanks to Jeremy and Tracy's small group for hosting the night and making so much great food.

(3) Read a heartfelt thank you from Mark and Naomi here.

Series Image | Rublev's Icon

As Scott mentioned on Sunday night, under the daily, there is a full explanation about the icon we are using are part of our set up for our series on Spiritual habits. Check it all out here.

And you can find the Divine Offices Calendar here.

TILT Social | This Wednesday!!

This Wednesday, September 24 at 7:00 pm will be having a relaxing evening at Scott & Kate's house, at 58 Stuart Avenue. Just bring yourself! We'll have some light food, a couple of games and good conversation.

GST Event!

Yes, this Sunday is Spring Garden's Good, Services and Talents event. Things will get rolling around 11:15 or so.

Read and view the catalogue to understand what it's all about.

A 2 week series starting tomorrow....

What's Goin' On | September 2

School's IN! For most of us this is the start of a new year...We hope and pray you have a wonderful first week to the 'new' year.

As always, monthly resources for prayer, meditation, reflection are in the urban monks blog here.

Pray for one another using the community boards here.

Communion BBQ on Sunday

Sunday is BBQ Communion - in other words, we'll be sharing a meal over the grill and communion as a community. Hopefully we will be outside. We'll provide meat and buns, and if you can bring a salad, dessert or beverages, that would be superb. If not, don't worry about it and just come! If you have specific preferences meat-wise, feel free to bring your own.

See you Sunday!

Photo by: Tom Franke

Last Sunday of Psalms!

Looking for Accomodation...

A friend of Mark and Naomi's, Nardeen, is looking for a room to rent!! Please see a few more details on the community boards here.

This Sunday | Psalms of Imprecation

This Sunday | Psalms of Confession

Photo by: Dan Shirley
Background by: Ali Farid

Psalms Stuff

Here is last night's video on the TILT art blog.

If you missed Scott's story last week, read it here. Write your own Psalm 73 using this as a guide.

If you write anything during our Psalms series, we'd love to be able to put a book together to make the "TILT Psalter". Don't worry, we won't publish names or anything. We would love to have something as an expression of our prayers as a community.

Photo by: Dan Shirley

This Sunday | Psalms of Lament