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My wife is reading the book Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. She was noticing how the main character, a young girl who must go to work as a maid for a master painter, leaves her home to travel just a few streets away from where the she has lived her whole life; yet, she had never ventured into this part of the city before. One of the reasons appears to be because of the traditions and customs of religion or faith. The girl’s family is Protestant, which is the traditions and concepts that she understands and finds comfort in, and she must now work for a Catholic family. Reading the book, you hear the girl’s perspective almost like reading her journal, and she describes this part of the city as if she had never seen it before, as with new eyes. This idea of seeing the city with new eyes relates to me. I have lived here in Indianapolis now for about a month and I still feel lost most times. I take the same roads to get the same places, because I am not sure if a few streets over I can make it back to where I started. I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but I am pretty sure that if you take a look at your life, you will see that you too find the comfort in your own traditions or as we call them today, routines, and thinking of traveling a few streets over just does not fit into the routine.

Being new to Indianapolis, my family and I are working on making our own routines or traditions. We are excited to see where God leads us as a family during this season of life. We get to make new traditions and new routines. I get excited for the Spring Break trips, the Saturday Work Days and the Summer to begin. This city and organization is new to me, but with a willing heart I am serving right where God wants me. We will have many churches with youth groups, college aged mission minded students, families, and groups of all kinds that have never been to this part of the city. They will see with new eyes something different. They will learn something new. They will be taken a few streets over from the comfort of what they know and be brought to another place; prayfully, a place filled with different traditions, different routines, different people, all working together for God’s kingdom! I see that working with others just a few streets over will help me be able to get used to being in this new city, a new routine for me. I see that just a few streets over I will get to know the neighbors, the people of this city. Just a few streets over I will become a better part of what God has in store for me.

We here at Mission Indy have been praying for you and your plans for this summer. We pray that as you begin to make your summer plans and get an idea of what you can do, that you include showing Christ to others, just a few streets over.

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A newer version of the 2010 Mission Indy Summer Staff application is now available. Page 4 of the original was missing some information. If you are applying for a 2010 Summer Staff position with Mission Indy, please download the revised application or request one on the application request page.

Remember, the application deadline is March 1, 2010.

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You can get your copy of the 2009 Mission Indy Annual Report in HTML with this link or pdf format from the downloads page. You can also navigate to it from the Mission Indy menu by selecting: “News” >> “Annual Reports” >> “2009″ for the HTML version and “More Cool Stuff” >> “Downloads” to get to the downloads page.

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Hello everyone!  My name is Matt Cutler and I have come on board with Mission Indy.  I will take a little bit to introduce myself and then tell you where you can catch up with Ron and I on the road.  I have been married for 13 years to a beautiful woman named Jana.  Right now I have four children with hopes to have more, if God allows.  I got my undergrad degree from Great Lakes Christian College and my M. Div. from Cincinnati Christian University.  I have been in Associate Ministry for over a dedcade working with youth, college age, young adults, and families from Michigan, Illinois, and most recently Florida.    For the last 10 years we have lived in Florida, so the cold and snow is an exciting change for our family.  This past Saturday I experienced my first Work Day at Mission Indy.  It was a good day!

We have a visit coming up on March 14th at Heartland Christian Church in Marion, IL.  It will be at their evening service.  If anyone is in the area that night and wants to find out more about what Mission Indy does and what we are planning, come on over for the visit.  It will start around 6pm that evening.  Hope to see and meet lots of new people!!

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The 2010 Urban Conversation announced in this post and on the We Are Urban website has been cancelled due to lack of registrations. Look for announcements for next year’s conversation.

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We are so excited and thankful to announce that beginning in 2010, Matt Cutler is joining Mission Indy in full time ministry. Matt, his wife Jana, and their four kids will be moving from Florida to Indianapolis the first of February! More to come later!

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Rose Gordon and Ron Greiner

The December 2009 News is now online at missionindy.com. You can either click on the link associated with the news or navigate to the Mission Indyweb site and follow the menu News > Newsletters > 2009 > December 2009. You can also download a copy of the news from the downloads page.

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Ron Greiner, the Executive Director of Mission Indy, Inc. will be the contact point for registrations for the Urban Conversation being held at Englewood Christian Church, February 18-20, 2010. Contact info for Ron is here.

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Mission Indy is the official registrar for the 2010 Urban Conversation being held at Englewood Christian Church, February 18 – 20, 2010. You can register here (or click the Urban Conversation Registration tab above). You can get details at the We Are Urban Web site.