QUEST 2009 Day One

QUEST 2009 has come and gone already. There was so much preparation and rush up until the day it began, and now it's over so quickly. God was there and He really blessed the event. This time we had one of our smaller groups, but it did not affect the quality at all. Day One we worked on the True Meaning of Community. Remember this is interactive learning and Jon Edwards the facilitator of the day's study put us all right to work. After an introduction and some basics we were divided into 2 small groups and instructed to form our group into a community and to function as a a community. Easier said than done with such diversity! Each group was made up of men and women from the different fields of CAM. We had no trouble with step one: Pseudo community in which the group avoids conflict and is extremely pleasant to each other-just a time of chatter and laughter. We felt pretty good about our time and broke for lunch. After lunch, each group had to come back together and move on to step two "Chaos". This is the step where everyone tries to make everyone else normal and to convert each other to their point of view or heal them. Definitely not as much fun as step one! We obviously did not have time to move to step three "Emptiness" or the fourth stage, "Community". At the end of the day, we all agreed there is much work to do in our lives, our ministries and our organization to grow our communities.