The Purpose of Pause Listen Learn

One of our Core Values is ‘relevance, creativity and innovation in accomplishing our mission.’ That means we do what we need to do to be the church God called us to be. Here's the problem, keeping the wheels of daily tasks turning squeezes out the time we need to figure out what we could be/should be doing - that's true whether you are staff or not. So as we approach our 5th birthday, rather than just repeating last month this month, because that’s what you do, we are going to pause from the routine, listen for what’s next and learn from it. That’s July 2011 – as an entire community here is what we are about: PAUSE LISTEN LEARN. Busy-ness will take a backseat to deliberateness.

Here’s what it means – on Sunday, July 3 we gathered at Minnehaha Falls as an entire community to launch our month of Pause Listen Learn.

• Sundays (July 10, 17, 24, 31) we’ll be visiting other churches in groups. We aren’t doing our own services so we can rest those muscles and free that time to listen and learn.  Learn more here.
• We are listening to God.  Learn more here. 
• We are listening to the community by visiting other organizations and events. Learn more here.
• We are doing a lot of listening to people within our Jacob’s Well community.  Learn more here.
• We are listening to Jacob’s Well folks who ‘aren’t here yet.’  Learn more here.  
• We are also just going to spend time together.  Learn more here.

Watch for more communication about Pause Listen Learn.  Read FAQs.

Be part of this vital experiment. Pray for our journey. Get involved in the activities.

Please continue to support Jacob's Well financially during July like you always do. Maybe even consider a special gift to help us reach for where God is calling us. We aren’t stopping being a church after all, we are intentionally and actively being church in a way that is life-giving and vision-focusing for us all.

I’m incredibly proud to be a pastor at a church brave and foresighted enough to keep God’s vision at the center of our life this way. I hope you are too. If you have questions please feel free to contact me, others from the staff or our board members.

Peace, Greg Meyer