may/june update, finally!

hey everyone, we are finally giving you an update. we know you have been on the edge of your seats waiting to here what we have been up to.

"Hey dread!"

This is what Tim heard last Monday as he was working on the garden on a lovely spring morning. My initial reaction was to ignore the person in hopes of continued solitude while pulling weeds. Instead the man parked his car and walked toward the front gate. "Devon, Devon, Devon," he said with his hand extended. DevonEvans is 64, has survived cancer and a stroke, is an activist, loves gardening, builds drums and traveled with Bob Marley and the Wailers!!!! He was looking for his friend's house but was on the wrong block when he saw a man with dreadlocks working in a garden! We are excited about this new friendship and are once again blown away by how God choses to work. Pray for Devon as he has had a rough life and has many eccentric spiritual beliefs. He is hopefully going to be coming around the fallout, playing music and wants to come cook us a Caribbean feast at our house!

May
Is it July already?! Where did May go or June for that matter! May 4th we were part of the May Day parade and festival. This annual event draws thousands of people, mostly the 'liberals' of liberal minneapolis. We built a giant goose bridge float for the parade and had an interactive art station in the park. The goose is the symbol of the Holy Spirit used by Celtic Christians, perhaps because they thought the dove was too wimpy! The float and crew are shown in the picture to the right.

In May we also attended the first ever USA 24/7 Prayer national gathering in Kansas. There were a couple hundred people who attended from all across the US. it was encouraging to hear and share stories, worship, prayer and fellowship together. We had a group of about 20 from Minneapolis. It was a special weekend as we got to host a theatrical performance of St. Aidan, drumming and worship near a campfire as well as being commissioned as an official 24-7 Prayer Boiler Room!

UMT

May 31st-June 8th we hosted our 10th Urban Ministry Training week. It was a full week of teaching, worship, electives, outreach and fun. There were about 15 students this year and we had a blast. The last Saturday of UMT, June 7th, we were part of Minneapolis' downtown block party called MOSAIC. MOSAIC is a celebration of the diversity of cultures and arts in minneapolis. we were given a great spot right next to main stage and hosted an interactive art station including a drum circle, make your own mosaic and a huge community mural. The mayor of Minneapolis stopped by and helped paint the mural. This was just one of the highlights of UMT. UMT ended with a great time of worship and a baptism of one of the girls who came to UMT from Indianapolis.This is a picture of a neighborhood Somalian girl spray painting at our Gloria Dei graffiti hip-hop event during UMT. Only at the Fallout do you have a Somalian girl with her head covering doing graffiti!!!



June

After recovering from the madness of May we began our June adventures. June has been a lot slower of a pace as we have 6 summer interns, a new weekly schedule and preparations for our 6th annual Fallout Art Fest which happens July 19th. Our weekly rhythm consists of three times of prayer Tuesday-Saturday, weekly drum and easels at Loaves and Fishes (part of St. Stephen's), Boiler Room prayer and share Wednesday evenings, teaching, story collecting, Fallout Fridays and much more. The last weekend of June, 13 of us traveled down to Harmony Park outside Geneva, MN, for a festival called Project Earth. We are going to put a post on Project Earth so you can read more about it there.

We are doing well although we are definitely looking forward to having a few weeks off in August. Tim's parents were in Minneapolis the first week of June for a short visit. Dana's parents are here right now for a few days. It is nice to be able to spend time with family in the midst of the busy Source summer. We know there are just a few short weeks left and then the summer will be over. You can pray for us to have energy for all the work before us. You can pray for us to have grace and patience with one another in the midst of very stressful weeks. You can pray for us to have wisdom in what to do with our 2 1/2 weeks off in August. We love you very much!!!