Mark Scandrette

If you haven’t been to our website recently, check out the new look. Pictures and resources will be added soon. www.reimagine.org

We still have a few spaces available for our annual prayer retreat. You can sign up here.
ENTERSPACE: Silent Prayer Retreat

Prayer is our breath of life and it is through prayer,or communion with God, that we live and breath. In him we move and have our being, so much so that we are inexplicably linked to our Creator. The Nazarene came proclaiming union with God, the seed of life rooted in us.The practice of prayer should aid us in removing the layers that have been placed on us, moving us toward finding the life breath of God within us. Prayer is not merely the utterance of words or petitions. It is life with God in everything we do. Through new experiences,information and reflection we are able to awaken the dormant pulse of God that resides within.

Please join us for a 3 day guided silent prayer retreat. Where we will practice the art of stillness and learn to listen for the voice of God.

The retreat will take place February 22 - 24th 2008.
Location - Klein Cabin @ Kirkwood.
All meals and lodging included.
Cost - $95

If you are near Santa Barbara, I’d love to connect. I’ll be doing a workshop tonight– and chapel on Friday in conjunction with Westmont’s San Francisco Urban Program, of which I am a strong advocate, collaborator and supporter. Here’s the description of tonight’s workshop:

ReIMAGINE your purpose: Money, Work, Community, Art, Justice. Has the life and message of Jesus been domesticated by a consumerist culture? What might it look like to follow Jesus as rabbi and revolutionary in contemporary society? How can we leverage our lives to bring about greater wholeness in our world? On February 6, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. in the Kerr Student Center Lounge, Mark Scandrette will hold a workshop to explore practical steps toward living the way of Jesus with greater intentionality in the details of life. Mark Scandrette, is the author of “Soul Graffiti: Making A Life in the Way of Jesus”, the Executive Director of ReIMAGINE, a Center for life integration, and is a founding member of SEVEN, an intentional Christian community in San Francisco.

Hello Everyone,
Here’s the latest on Dieter’s condition. Dieter had a stroke sometime Sunday night. They did emergency brain surgery and induced a coma to help him stabalize so they could assess the extent of damage.

Dieter Zander is one of the founders of ReIMAGINE and we worked together for several years in San Francisco. Dieter was an influential voice early on in the gen-x/post-modern/emerging church transition. You can learn more about him here.

The Latest news from 5 P.M. on Tuesday.

They did a CAT scan, the bleeding has stopped, but the swelling is worse. The doctor likened it to a twisted ankle that gets swollen bruised.
Because of the swelling they are going to continue to keep him sedated for the next 24 hours.
As far as a “prognosis” the doctor said it was a substantial stroke and there has been damage.
Dieter has also got a small amount of pneumonia in one of his lungs. They are giving him antibiotics to help this go away.
Val has specifically asked for us to pray that pneumonia go away, so that his body will use it’s energy to heal his brain instead of fight the liquid in his lungs and that the swelling would go down in his brain. Until that happens they will keep him sedated and will be unable to further assess the damage caused by the stroke.

Matt got a bit choked up on the phone, so lets pray for him as he is communicating for the family, which can’t be easy. He did say that the boys are doing great.

Matt also said there probably won’t be another update until tomorrow.