Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship meets September 11

 Christian Faculty and Staff Network gathering on 9/11 - Special speaker: Lauren Gill of Global Gotham Network and Faith and Work Communications 

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Network lunch gathering on Wednesday, September 11, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM). We meet at the Baptist Campus Ministries building (University Boulevard and 4th Avenue). 

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  • It's the best meal deal in town: You can get lunch there for $1 thanks to the generosity of local churches. Don't forget to thank the church workers for what they do for the students. The first meal of the term is special, so you won't want to miss it.
  • Our book for the term is Tim Keller's Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work. Here's a summary from the Amazon page: "With deep conviction and often surprising advice, Keller shows readers that biblical wisdom is immensely relevant to our questions about work today. In fact, the Christian view of work that we work to serve others, not ourselves can provide the foundation of a thriving professional and balanced personal life." 

Lauren Gill is scheduled to call in during our 9/11 meeting. She's part of Redeemer Presbyterian Church's ministries and is a leader in their faith/work initiatives. Here's her background:

MANAGER, GLOBAL GOTHAM NETWORK AND FAITH & WORK COMMUNICATIONS

MANHATTAN, NY

  • A Kentucky native, Lauren moved to New York City to study acting and journalism at New York University. As an actress, Lauren has performed widely, from London to Off Broadway to Amish country, in pieces ranging from biblical musicals to Shakespeare’s classics.
  • Lauren has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. She founded and operates The Redemptive Pursuit, a weekly devotional series for women. She is a graduate of the 2010 Gotham Fellowship class and has been working at Faith & Work since 2013. Having lived in the city for over a decade now, Lauren and her husband, Suneel, love exploring NYC’s culinary options. They live in Harlem.

Do you know what happened on this date that affected Christians?

  • 813. Charlemagne crowned Louis I “The Pious,” his only surviving son, as coregent of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • 1962. American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote: "We have not known and tasted the things that have been given to us in Christ. Instead we have built around ourselves walls and offices on cells and chambers of all sorts, and fill them full of bureaucratic litter, and buried ourselves in dust and documents, and now we wonder why we cannot see God, or lead to do his will."
  • 2001. Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon by Islamic terrorists.

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