A Note on Taizé in Springfield Amber and I went to a Taizé service at Brentwood the other day. It was the first Taizé service we had been too since we first discovered Taizé at East Liberty Presbyterian Church five years ago. Taizé prayer is characterized by contemplative songs, low lights, crosses, and candles. I don’t have a picture of the service to...

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Spare Key recently decided on new people for leadership roles, which we call czar positions. Last year, I was the Sharing Czar and I was asked to continue in this role. My main job is to find opportunities for us to share life in creative ways. This past year that has taken the form of hosting a wedding shower for Rob and Abbey,...

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Last year around this time, we had our first declaration of czars. Recently, we declared new czars for the next year. Here are the czars for the upcoming year... Adventure Czar - Bethany History Czar - Jay Study Czar - Jonathan Sharing Czar - Amber Service Czar - Ryan Communication Czars - Bethany & Tessa Photography Czar - Lauren Research Czar - Travis...

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Dispatches from Columbia: Rob Hunt’s Initial Report on Dinner Club, c.3/2016 (Jay here. As the new History Tzar, I get to comb through some of the un-posted blog posts of yore. Here's one that got stuck in the tubes but should have been posted a long time ago. It's Rob writing about his and Abbey's discovery of the Dinner Club concept, for which...

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  Dinner Club is a neighborhood meal open to everyone. Out with the old: Spare Key used to eat together once a week, and our weekly meal was a potluck. Potlucks are great so far as they go, but in our case we realized our potluck system had several problems. First, potlucks are hard if you're doing them every week. Everyone feels like...

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  Founder's Breakfast   Anybody who knows me (Jay) knows that I love holidays. The Christmas Season is my favorite six months of the year. So I was very excited for today, which was the first ever, fourth annual, Spare Key Founding Breakfast Day. Any group or community that exists for long enough will eventually start to create its own traditions and important days....

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