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What: Central Community Group
When: Tuesday nights - Starts @ 7:30pm
Where: 6007b Shadow Valley Cove here in Austin, Texas - Call for directions: 817.271.7033
Leaders: J.R. & Amy Woods
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Calendar
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 April 21th - 25th - REAP Bible Study - Updated each Monday
April 22th - CG | Potluck @ Lindsey's Apt. @ The Triangle - see email
April 26th - Disc Golf|Zilker @ 10 am
April 27th - Covenant Class @ 5:00
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“And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. ”
- Acts 5:42 (NASB)
Inside...
 What Is This Site?
The Kangaroose7en.com / WorldWideMercy sites were setup to help facilitate communication for a community group of the Austin Stone Community Church, in Austin, Texas. As a result, the site grew beyond its original intent. It still serves the purpose of communicating specific information from one group to the next, but it has also evolved into a cultural mesh of ideas, music, books, art, and hopefully, the Truth. There is a little something here for everyone, regardless of how you got here or where you live. Isn't that one of the really cool things about the web? One minute you could be in Prague and thru a series of clicks, wind up here in Austin, Texas. If that is the case, Howdy.
Who We Are
We are a community of people who attend the Austin Stone Community Church (most of us anyway). Attending the Stone isn't a requirement for attending this group or any of the other small groups, it is just where most of the attendees heard about this group's existence. Anyway, we believe God created people to live in relationship. But let's face it. Living life with others isn't always easy. It is simpler and safer to be alone or remain with a few who we consider friends. To do otherwise means letting people see our bad hair days, our mistakes, and our faults. It means being disappointed by theirs, as well. But, we think it is worth the risk to explore life and Truth together. We believe God's plan for His church has much more to do with loving each other, sharpening each other, and raising the bar for one another than playing it safe. We hope you'll be brave and jump in with us.
When and Where
Tuesday nights and we start @ 7:30pm. We usually end around 9:30 or so, depending on how long people stick around for fellowship. If you need to leave a little early, no problem, we know some of you have to wake up at the crack of dawn. Finding community is more important than feeling awkward about leaving early. If we aren't meeting at the house, we're probably doing something as a group somewhere, so be sure to check the calendar for details. We are located in Central Austin, off of 6007b Shadow Valley Cove, which is located just south of Far West.
Statement of Faith
coming...
I See Ads
Don't worry, we're not trying to get rich. Hosting this site, as well as some other activities doesn't happen for free. If this site paid for itself with the ad space, we'd be happy. If we started seeing huge amounts of revenue, we'd pour it right back into the group and into the site.
Views...or in other words, don't judge us
Just to make it clear, we nor the Austin Stone endorse all of the ideas or quotes that are presented on this website, except, of course, the ones we've written ourselves. Even some of those views could be considered half baked and thus might not be endorsed by the Austin Stone. This is just point of clarification. This website exists to join a community of believers together and “to explore the collision between pop culture and the realms of faith, religion, and spirituality. Sometimes that is tidy, and orthodox. More often than not, however, it is not.” (Stolen from a better writer than myself.) Our intent is not to offend, but to merely inform.
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Quotes
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“The noise in my head was deafening, and drinking was in my thoughts all the time. It shocked me to realize that here I was in a treatment center, a supposedly safe environment, and I was in serious danger. I was absolutely terrified, in complete despair. At that moment, almost of their own accord, my legs gave way and I fell to my knees. In the privacy of my room, I begged for help. I had no notion who I thought I was talking to, I just knew that I had come to the end of my tether, I had nothing left to fight with. Then I remembered what I had heard about surrender, something I thought I could never do, my pride just wouldn’t allow it, but I knew that on my own I wasn’t going to make it, so I asked for help, and, getting down on my knees, I surrendered. Within a few days I realized that something had happened for me. An atheist would probably say it was just a change of attitude, and to a certain extent that’s true, but there was much more to it than that. I had found a place to turn to, a place I’d always known was there but never really wanted, or needed, to believe in. From that day until this, I have never failed to pray in the morning, on my knees, asking for help, and at night, to express gratitude for my life and, most of all, for my sobriety. I choose to kneel because I feel I need to humble myself when I pray, and with my ego, this is the most I can do. If you are asking why I do all this, I will tell you…because it works, as simple as that. In all this time that I’ve been sober, I have never once seriously thought of taking a drink or a drug. I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.”
- Eric Clapton on his 20 year sobriety in Clapton: The Autobiography (Quote provided by Steve Beard of Thunderstruck)
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Just to make it clear, we nor the Austin Stone endorse all of the ideas or quotes that are presented on this website, except, of course, the ones we've written ourselves. This is just point of clarification. This website exists to join a community of believers together and “to explore the collision between pop culture and the realms of faith, religion, and spirituality. Sometimes that is tidy, and orthodox. More often than not, however, it is not.” (Stolen from a better writer than myself.) Our intent is not to offend, but to merely inform.
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