Archive for the ‘Soma School’ Category

THE Story round two!

Posted: February 21, 2012 by mikehanafee in Soma School, THE Story, Uncategorized

As a young child I had Noah’s Ark themed bedsheets. Many nurseries are painted with animals on the ark. This is quite ironic, when you consider the catastrophic nature of the flood. It’s like having scenes from Hurricane Katrina on your child’s wall. And as one participant noted in Round 2 of THE Story, the [...]

Restore Church has secured use of a great facility located right in our community – yes, we are excited!  And we are very thankful for the people of Grace Episcopal Church (NW corner of Rosa Parks Blvd & Virginia Park St) graciously opening up their excellent building to us!  We are planning two different events. [...]

Abyssinia

Posted: September 30, 2011 by mikehanafee in Detroit Info, Soma School, Uncategorized

While we are definitely not a building centered ministry, there is a beautiful old church less than a mile away that I dream about as a worship space & community center. Getting it would require the same power that divided the Red Sea! The place needs much work & would cost a lot to restore. [...]

To show & tell the gospel in 48202 in order to make disciple-making disciples – that’s what we are about at Restore. Of critical importance, then, is our understanding of the church. Namely, what is the church & how is it to function? One of the contributing influences in answering this question from Scripture has [...]

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Posted: May 27, 2010 by cletebontrager in Soma School

When we were at Soma School we heard the “Story of God”.  What a refreshing way to look at the Bible.  The Bible is a story and should be read as one.  The whole point of the Bible also is JESUS.  From Soma Web Site: For thousands of years, stories and oral traditions were the [...]

The corporate gathering is not the point of the church but a punctuation & celebration of 24/7 gospel living. For that reason we were particularly excited to meet with the Tacoma missional communities this AM – what a celebration it was! Then with some new church planter friends from Missouri & San Francisco we enjoyed [...]

Friday- Soma School — Saturday- Day of toil

Posted: May 15, 2010 by cletebontrager in Soma School, Uncategorized

Today I’m going to put up some pics of what we did and will give a tease about some blogging we will do next week.   We had breakfast with the Tildens this morning (wonderful egg mixture with mushrooms).  Went on a service project with them to a community garden.  This garden bounty is given [...]

Get some rhythm ~ Some School: Day 3

Posted: May 14, 2010 by cletebontrager in Soma School, Uncategorized

We have much to process after another gospel packed day at Soma. We completed the walk thru The Story ending in Revelation with goose bumps & tears of joy.  In the afternoon we walked through the rhythms of life which provide opportunities to display & declare by the power of the Spirit the love of [...]

What a day! Soma School: Day 2

Posted: May 12, 2010 by mikehanafee in Soma School

Woke up 5/12 to a run up some backbreaking hills in Gig Harbor before rehydrating with coffee. Morning session was a continuation The Story through the end of the Old Testament. Then in the afternoon Jeff brought it on Gospel Identities & What Shapes the Church? Some powerful quotes: Whatever God commands He provides. Maybe [...]

Soma School: Day 1

Posted: May 12, 2010 by mikehanafee in Soma School

So here is my first attempt of posting at resdetroit.org via my Iphone. The plan is to give a daily updates, consisting of a short summary & some pictures. Yesterday (5/11), after lots of preparation (mostly by Susan) for being away at Soma School for a whole week we said goodbye to our 5 children. [...]