Fabric's 15th Birthday!

Fabric's 15th Birthday!

Our first official start of weekly gatherings, then as Jacob’s Well, was Sept 17, 2006. We’ve seen couples meet, get married and have kids who are now in high school! We will use September 19 by being together outside, enjoying some music, sharing our vision and what we see in our future, and we’ll spend time remembering, imagining and celebrating.

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Happy Together? It's Complicated.

Happy Together? It's Complicated.

Spirit Garage and Fabric will gather together at the Minnehaha Falls Bandstand on Sunday, September 5. There are plenty of benches, lots of space, and a good amount of shade at The Falls. Our theme will be “Happy Together? It’s Complicated.” As we move in and out of various states of the pandemic, see people we haven’t seen in a long time, or come together on a Sunday morning, there are many things to celebrate. And also, it’s complicated.

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The Game of Life

The Game of Life

If you are reading this you are a player in the Game of Life. The assumptions you hold (knowingly or not) about what kind of game life is and how to play affect how you show up and experience it everyday. Starting August 1 we’ll have some fun, kids and adults together, exploring some of the common games we play as humans that keep us from playing in the big, real, challenging, amazing Game of Life.

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Enough

Enough

It is one of those words that drives us crazy because the quest for it never ends and the harder we chase it the emptier we feel. So what is enough? Is it what you already have, or something you can never have? The question of enough creeps into every nook and cranny of your life; your money and your stuff, your expectations and ambitions, even yourself. Join us as we look at what enough thinking does to us, and what it can do for us.

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Jesus + Sisyphus (Easter 2021)

Jesus + Sisyphus (Easter 2021)

Easter is coming. It’s coming after a year of being sealed up and weighed down by the pandemic and a handful or two of other things, including winter. On Easter, Sunday, April 4, Fabric gathered via video livestreams to have some fun despite those stones. Let’s take a break from pushing them. And we might even be able to realize that they don’t seal us off from what really matters as much as we think. We are calling it, “Jesus & Sisyphus.” Watch the amazing video gathering or listen to the podcast to find out why!

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Living Room

Living Room

Do you have it? Not the room with the couch you’ve spent more time on than ever in these pandemic months, but the room you need to live, to breathe, to be. It’s hard to feel human or treat others that way when you are squeezed from the inside and the outside. That living room evaporates with demands, judgements, expectations and rules. One way of understanding Jesus is that he came to do just this; restore our living room. Time for a rehab of yours? Join Fabric as we take three weeks to rediscover some living room wisdom together!

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Our Place

Our Place

For eons we didn’t need to know it, now for centuries we haven’t caught on to it, but today we have no choice but to recognize it: this planet is our place and we need to find our place in it. The days of thinking we can be apart from nature are over - we are inseparably part of nature. Let’s explore the joy-filled and promise-laden place of being part of our planet - I hate to say it, but - before it is too late...

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No Strangers: Opting in to Revolutionary Love

No Strangers: Opting in to Revolutionary Love

Welcome to 2021. We have come through a remarkable year of turmoil, inequity, reckoning, and loss. We have made strangers of each other and even, perhaps, become strange to ourselves. How are you? In this new year what is not only worthy of your opting into, but also possible? That’s where Valarie Kaur’s (See No Stranger) Revolutionary Love comes in. It reverberates with Jesus’ calls to love our neighbors as ourselves - and even our opponents - in a way that not only changes the game but helps us stay in it with our whole selves. Join us with your whole self this January!

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Something New Is Being Born

Something New Is Being Born

You thought the other stuff was hard, welcome to raising up what you gave birth to. Every day it has new needs. Of its own! Not yours. And tomorrow again. Yet, the joy of seeing your ‘baby’ come into its own brings joy you can’t measure. But then one day it starts taking paths you hadn’t chosen. Your child wants to wander not be a carpenter, your song wants to go somewhere you don’t, your company outgrows your leadership. How do you let go of what you gave your life for? Merry Christmas!

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Better Than Compromise

Better Than Compromise

Win/lose is the game we usually play, but in the end it becomes lose/lose. So we turn to compromise. Not quite what either of us want, but what we will settle for. Really? Is that the best we can do? Four years ago we faced a divisive election and today another that feels like round two on steroids. Back then we met it with a vision for Better Than Compromise that still feels true and relevant today, so we are revisiting that vision to see how it can continue to lead us today. Join the conversation!

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Citizen!

Citizen!

What does that word conjure up in you? For many it is worn and tired carrying baggage better left behind. But is that it? Citizenship is more than a birth certificate and a passport. To be a citizen is a gift and a duty, it comes with rights and responsibilities, but most of all, it is who you can be in building a world that we all want to be part of. On November 3 you have a chance to show the kind of citizen you are - and voting is only the beginning. Tune in for a new vision and steps that can make this a more perfect union.

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