this afternoon jonathon and i mixed in with some upperroom friends in filming some spots for a new website that will highlight and sell "the way of pilgrimage" the older youth and young adult family member of "companions in Christ."
it was interesting as some of the spots felt like we were doing the mac/pc commercial parodies. that would have been cool, but jonathon can't act. he did good managing child, enthusiasm, and reading words. it's a tough place to be. he had to jet before i was on my own, so he can't talk trash about me, haha!! one of the running jokes was that we would throw in "way of the master" references. quite a bit of fun, some good laughs. after i was done i chatted with dale as catherine (one of the organizers) had her australian boyfriend read some voice overs. i guess the accent thing is really cool, certainly cooler than mine or jonathon's voices.
in seriousness, the "way of pilgrimage" is a 30 week small group experience that can be broken into stand alone segments or a whole comprehensive understanding of ones spiritual walk as pilgrim (or resident alien for you willimon/hauerwaus fans). it does give educational understandings but mostly it is geared to help shape the heart of the pilgrim searching for Christ. i'm excited about it and can't wait to start to plug it in with our spiritual formation as a youth community. we've adopted the small group meeting model as our base already. it'll be nice to have the curriculum to go along with it.
