Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship gathering on 11/20 - Giving us a new story

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, November 20, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM). We meet at the Baptist Campus Ministries (BCM) building (University Boulevard and 4th Avenue), and lunch will be served. 

More:

  • 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."
  • You're welcome to facilitate one of our meetings as well. I pass around a sign-up sheet and invite all to participate. Some things you might want to do:
    • Facilitate the discussion of the current chapter of the book we're going through. That involves asking questions and inviting responses.
    • Giving a discipline talk about what you're doing in your area. It's a chance to get to know you and what you're doing at UA.
    • Bring in a guest speaker (we can also dial up someone on speakerphone).
    • Invite your pastor or college minister to chat about college students in your church.
    • Etc. That's a catch-all in case you have a great idea about something else for our lunch gathering. 

The BCM staff and students left a stack of prayer notes for us. I have the ones the 11/13 attendees didn't take and will bring them to pass out. 

We'll discuss Chapter 9, A New Story for Work. Some interesting statements from the chapter to whet your appetite:

  • "In the business animated by the gospel worldview, profit is simply on of many important bottom lines."
  • "To be a Christian in business…means thinking out the implications of the gospel worldview and God's purposes for your whole work life - and for the whole of the organization under your influence."
  • "…when we say that Christians work from a gospel worldview, it does not mean that they are constantly speaking about Christian teaching in the their work." 

It's that time of the semester to think about what book we'd like to go through next term. Here's a link to an interest survey: https://universityofalabama.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_40Kc3NxCezXzJ9X 

Would you mind ranking the 6 books to give us an idea of which one appears to have the greatest interest? 

You will probably not go to these events, but it's good to see what's going on around the body of Christ:

High impact happenings on 11/20:

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