Why mess with a good thing?

liberti has been an ever-changing community. As we have grown, the Elders observed that we were clearly at the limit of what our model could accomplish. Our old paradigm, three sites that were entirely interconnected, was doable for a time. But model always should be the servant of mission. We outgrew our model and it began to threaten the future of our mission—to be a church-planting church in Philadelphia—to grow laterally, not simply up. The former model, three in one, became cumbersome administratively, made leadership feel more distant from the community, and most importantly, could not expand.

So here we are—a new day.

Over the course of the next few months, liberti church will become a movement of liberti churches:

1. liberti: Fairmount will be lead by Geoff Bradford as Pastor and a team of their own elders and deacons.
2. liberti: Fishtown will be lead by Steve Huber as Pastor and a team of their own elders and deacons.
3. liberti: Roxborough, our youngest congregation, will be moving toward further independence. We plan to call a new pastor and to work for the development of leadership. It will have provisional oversight by liberti: Fairmount’s elders for a season.
4. AND THEN: we look to see the development and launch of a new congregation in South Philadelphia in partnership with a guy named Jared Ayers, who will be relocating to Philadelphia over the summer to begin the work for this new church, under the oversight of liberti: Fishtown’s elders.

That is exactly what we want to see continue!

That is why we are Multiplying. For Mission. To continue to be able to answer God’s calling on us as a movement to be able to plant more and more gospel-centered churches that incarnate Jesus’ love in their neighborhood.

You will see further developments of our multiplication: A new re-vamp of our website this summer. New support staff members that are specific to each particular congregation. New offices that are separate. We celebrate these developments, and ask for the community’s support and encouragement as we learn what it means to be a movement together.

Some might be asking,

“What will be shared? Does this mean that everything is now separate? Not at all. We love the synergy that we experience in community-based leadership. Many things will be shared: a common vision and values, resources for church planting, resources for international ministries, training events, special retreats and seminars, and most importantly, a common mission that will continue. The elders from the liberti churches will continue to meet together periodically, the staffs will meet monthly for prayer and partnership. Don’t worry, the relationships and vision are intact.

We recognize that change always means challenge.

Change is hard and there will be some aspects of our community and our ministry that will simply be different. I know that you may experience some of this as a loss to be grieved. The elders also have experienced some of that—especially with the simultaneous and unrelated timing of some departures of key beloved staff people (Lutzes, Brauds). It is OK to grieve that. But we ask that the community both looks back and looks ahead. Back at what God has done with gratitude. Forward at what God is calling us to do and be for his fame in our city as we are on his mission.

Peace of Christ,
Geoff, for our Elders

Update on Jess’s health (from Jess)

Thanks to all those who have helped us with meals & childcare the last few months. We’ve been through an extraordinary season of being loved on by many different people.
Many of you have cooked things you had never heard of before out of love for us. We give glory to God that His love has been poured out through the care team and many others in our church body! All of this help has provided desperately needed rest. What a gift! I am feeling a lot better than a few months ago, but still have a long way to go. We are so thankful for your prayers and for this sabbatical.

H4. A few months ago…

Steve shared in a sermon about my spine straightening in response to some prayer. We finally got an X-Ray to verify it, and, sure enough, it had straightened 10 degrees, from 35 to 25! This is remarkable. We’ve looked around, and you just don’t find reports of this in the medical literature without major bracing or surgical intervention. Crooked spines don’t just straighten as you get older! This is a God thing and we want to give him the credit he deserves!

What God’s Been Teaching Me.

After 10 ½ years of chronic illness, God is still teaching me so much about myself and about Him.
Despite my best efforts to manage my health, children, and household, my health went in to the toilet these past few months. I found myself returning to a place of pain, weakness, and need, a place lower than I had been in about 6 years. I could not keep up with the needs of my two young kids. I couldn’t do the cleaning or cooking or shopping for my own family. I couldn’t even drive, or carry the baby up the stairs. In that place of needing other people to constantly come in and do all the things that “I should be doing,” the Lord revealed more of the depths of my heart.

I was restless to have something to show for myself.

I saw my deep need to contribute something to God, to my worth, to my healing, and to God’s daily acceptance of me. God stripped me of my ability to perform. There was nothing I could do to contribute or feel better about myself. In my eyes, this felt like failure and shame, but this was exactly where God wanted me to be. And in that place, the Lord showed me that I was ok. I had none of what I thought I needed, but everything I really needed and more. I found that it is joy, freedom, and rest to come to God totally empty and unworthy. It is joy to realize in real experience that my Father’s love, forgiveness, salvation, life, and healing are absolutely free and limitless and unchanging. It’s all free simply because He is that Good and Holy and Full of Grace! It’s all free simply because Jesus’ righteousness and payment were enough—forever and ever. What a beautiful, wonderful, truth that it is not about our own goodness, and never will be!

Early in this trial season, the Lord comforted me with Hebrews 12:1-13, particularly speaking to me in v. 3-4: 3Consider him [Jesus] who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. 4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

The Lord encouraged me with two important truths about how He wants us to view hardship.

1. Hardship is my Father’s loving discipline to help me become like Jesus.
2. The hardships we willingly entrust to God are a sharing in Christ’s sufferings.

In my journal from a couple months ago, I wrestled with this. “Lord, I hear you testifying to me that I am sharing in Christ’s struggle against sin and brokenness! Your purpose in my suffering is to battle sin and evil. Am I willing to accept your purpose in me? Lord, I heard you say to me, ‘In your struggle with sickness and brokenness, I am not asking nearly as much as I asked my own Son to do for you. I am not asking much, am I?’ Lord, you are not asking much of me, if you ask me to share just a little bit of Jesus’ sufferings to bring about your purposes. You are asking me to share just a little bit of His pain and disgrace. How can I argue with you? How can I refuse the One who has loved me so much? How can I refuse the One whose heart is full of love to me? How can I refuse the One who wants to use me for your good purposes of victory over sin and evil and glory in us and in you? How can I refuse you if you want to put to death my idols of self-reliance, self-righteousness, comfort and control – the sins that eat away at my soul? I will gladly walk with you in this, Jesus. I know now more than ever that you do walk with me and you have already overcome all of this. I will gladly endure, by your grace, needing your help every day, so that you can bless your people and build your church and deepen faith and conquer sin and display your power and mercy. You are worthy of it, Lord, and your love is enough.”

This heavenly perspective has been incredibly helpful in my ability to endure, and to not lose faith in the process. Thank you again for those who have prayed for us in that way!

Sabbatical

I (Steve) am extremely grateful to liberti’s elders for giving this summer’s sabbatical to me. This was scheduled before our health crisis, but it comes at a good time for us as a family.

Not that I’m expecting it to be easy.

Many busy pastors have a hard time getting used to sabbatical (just ask Geoff & Steve), because it is 3 months of resting in Jesus. There’s a huge difference. I’m going to have to put down my usual efforts at finding worth, value, and meaning (in my work), and see what happens between Jesus and I in the stillness. I’m going to find out a lot about my own heart. The extent to which I am really willing to put down my work will demonstrate the extent to which I really trust God to keep working without my contribution.
The resting of a sabbatical, in which I can do nothing but receive grace, is a picture of the Gospel, and will therefore be difficult for the activist in me.

So would you consider praying for our sabbatical?

• That I would rest in Jesus, not take a vacation from Jesus.
• That I would not find replacements for my work.
• That I would grow in reliance on Jesus for all that we need, including Jess’s health.
• That Jesus and I would become better acquainted. We’ve had some hurried conversations lately and need some quality time.
• That I would grow in some key areas of becoming like Jesus, that He and some other loved ones have identified in my life.

The hardcore Christian, husband, father, seminary professor and elder died on Feb 4th 2007, His name was Alan Groves.

Al is with Jesus now. I am grateful to God to have known him as a mentor, prayer partner, and neighbor. We used to live on the same street and we shared a love for Jesus, the Old Testament (especially the book of Isaiah …which Al inspired in me, thus the liberti sermon series on Isaiah in Advent), and also a love for eating obscene amounts of pan-cooked popcorn. We enjoyed all these things for a last time together in this world on January 8th.

I was able to tell Al how much I loved him and appreciated him.

This is why: Al was a very busy busy man who struggled with chronic fatigue, with endless important projects on his plate, connecting with people around the world on his scholarly projects ….. and he took time to pray and encourage the very young, very green young pastor who lived on his block .

I have to say that I usually gave him the same prayer requests over and over. Al knew all my junk, all my issues, and I shared with him the depths of my struggles.

I have tears on my face as I type this and think about his love, patience and prayers for me. Like most of the 1000 people who came to the funeral (a sad but very joyful occasion) the 400 people who watched via webcast, and the many who knew him around the world—- I want to be like Al Groves. I want to follow him as he followed Jesus. Al followed Jesus Christ in life, and now he has followed Jesus Christ in facing death with faith.

Here is an excerpt from the words that Al wrote for his own memorial service, urging other people to look to Jesus in both life and death. I offer this to challenge you…… do you have this confidence to face life… and to face death??

“As I have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, I have walked hand-in-hand with Jesus, the one who has already walked through that valley and come out the other side, alive, raised from the dead. And as I hold his hand and trust him, I too am raised with him, for this was his purpose in walking that path: to raise those who trusted in him. His rod and staff, his cross of suffering have become my comfort. Now as I have died, I come before the God, the king of the universe, and I come in Christ. He chose to suffer and die on the cross in my place, so that on account of him I might have forgiveness from sin and victory over death. And now I have received the resurrection and eternal life that has been my only hope, past, present and forever…..

Through all my life, Christ has been constant. Even as I have grown and changed, he is still the one whom I loved that first day.

Nothing has ever changed in how I come to him; every day of my life the story is the same: I come to God in Christ. His love for me has been steadfast, and he has pursued me through every time I have turned away from Him and every time I have returned.

The constant prayer of my heart for my own life and the lives of those around me has been that we would see Jesus, and that He would be welcome and present among us.

There may be some here who have never trusted Christ for life, who have never known that he is the answer to the sin and death in our lives. I urge you to consider the claims he made to being the Son of God, to consider that he didn’t stay dead and sends a message down through the ages that there is life in Him and him alone. His death on a cross, humiliating though it seemed, was his glory, by which he has defeated our true enemies—sin and death. By the ultimate sacrifice he made, he humiliated all powers arrayed against him.

If you struggle with faith, let me encourage you that in the hardest moments I have faced, he has been there.

And death has been defeated. I am in Christ, as you are in Christ. So let us live out of the grace we have received. Let us live out of Christ. This means looking daily for him, asking him to open your eyes to him, and embracing what you see. Seek him with all your heart. Love him with all your heart. Love those he loves with all your heart, even to the laying down of your life for him. Jesus, the way, the truth, the life. In no other do we have hope. But in him we have hope that endures forever. We grieve, but we grieve with hope. The hope of a resurrection; the hope of life eternal. Together with Jesus.

To read the rest of Al’s words or learn more of his story, go to www.algroves.info.

Prior to the last century, common usage of the word revealed a very different view of life than we share today. It was implicit to the very definition of the word that to have a “priority” meant singularity. Only one agenda, one role, one person could go first.

Is there any wonder, then, that my sense of being overwhelmed by life, trying to keep my head above the water, being battered by battling expectations and commitments—that all flow from my expectation that I can have multiple priorities? That many things can be first? That I can excel, achieve, master several categories of life?

Jesus teaches, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:33)

This teaching, in a longer discourse about our worry and God’s provision, point me to consider choosing second best, choosing second place as a spiritual disciple.

I know that sounds weird. I grew up believing that I should be the best, have the best, compete, strive, sweat. Everything in our culture and advertising teaches us entitlement and indulgence. Get the best you can. You deserve it. And as a dad, I can tell you that everyone, EVERYONE thinks that you are mistreating your kids if you don’t provide the best that you can.

So what about choosing second best?

I’m not talking just about settling for something lesser than what you want. I’m also not talking about simplicity for simplicity’s sake. I’m talking about choosing second best as an act of spiritual discipline. I know that “spiritual discipline” is about as popular as “root canal.”

What is a spiritual discipline? What does that mean? How does it work?

A spiritual discipline works two ways.

1) It is a way of creating space in your life for God. If you want to know God more, you create space in your time to listen to him in his word and talk to him in prayer.

2) It does not reflect what you feel, but what you want to feel. I want to be changed by God, but it does not just happen. I put myself in the middle of the intersection where Jesus can run over me.

In other words, it is an act of worship. It is saying, “Jesus, you are best. I don’t need the best in other areas of my life, because I will forget that you are prior, you are first.” It is downgrading your life to focus more on worship of God. Downsizing your desires, wants, pleasures.

But what about second best? As a response to this blog, I ask you to help me figure out what it means to choose second best in these (and other) areas of life:

Housing
Finances
Eating Out
Clothing
Education
Fashion
Schedule
Work
Entertainment

This week we are entering into the church season commonly called “Lent.” The word Lent comes from the old Germanic term for Spring, but became associated with the period (40 days) before Holy Week, which culminates with Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

For many of us, Lent is associated with Roman Catholicism, but historically, Christians of all stripes have celebrated Lent since the early Church.

liberti will be observing Lent because we believe it offers us a valuable opportunity to more deeply experience our union with Christ, through giving ourselves to special periods of self-examination, repentance, and service. The goal of Lent is to prepare our hearts for the observance of Christ’s sacrificial, atoning sacrifice on Good Friday, and to celebrate his resurrection on Easter Sunday.

The common practice of “giving up something for Lent,” though easily misused as an empty, ritualistic gesture, can also be a type of fasting which causes one’s heart to long more deeply for God.

Lent is a journey with Christ; a journey with Christ will inevitably focus on his death and resurrection. Galatians 2:20 captures the goal or destination of this journey well: “I am crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Lent is a season to put to death sinful patterns, and celebrate new life, through Jesus Christ!

Romans 6:1-14 also captures this Lenten spirituality well, and will be read every week in our worship services during Lent. We encourage you to memorize this passage over the next few weeks.

Lent is a season to walk with Christ on the road to the Cross. In addition to the practices mentioned above, we may deepen our union with Christ through:

• Suffering like Christ, and comforting others in their suffering, like Christ (2 Cor. 1).
• Loving and serving others sacrificially and humbly like Christ (Mark 10:42-45).
• Setting aside special times of prayer like Christ (Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16; 6:12; 9:18, 28; 22:39).
• Willingly letting go of good gifts in order to draw closer to God, such as fasting from food, particular food or drinks, TV, MySpace, etc. (Joel 2:12-13).
• Becoming more conformed to the image of Christ in our beliefs and behavior (Rom. 12:1-2).
• Turning to Christ in conviction and repentance (Psalm 51 and the other penitential psalms: 6, 32, 38, 102, 130, 143).
• Taking hold of the means of grace: reading the Word (read one of the Gospels. Read the Psalms, especially the traditional “messianic” ones. Read Isaiah if you didn’t finish it during Advent); memorizing Scripture; Prayer, alone and with others; intentional fellowship with other believers in our worship services and home meetings, etc.

During the six Sundays of Lent before Easter, we will not be celebrating the Lord’s Supper. Instead, we will set aside the time normally devoted to that during the service for self-examination, and feeding on other means of grace.

One of the reasons God commands us to examine ourselves is so that we would “recognize the body of the Lord” when we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, and not take the bread and cup “in an unworthy manner,” (1 Corinthians 11:17-34).

The next time we will celebrate communion together will be when we celebrate the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday (the Thursday before Easter). We anticipate that not having communion in our services over the next few weeks will feel very jarring, but we believe this will help deepen our sense of need for the Cross, our appreciation of the glory of the Cross, and our anticipation to feed again from Christ.

We pray that we will all be drawn closer to Christ during this season of Lent!

I vacillate between anti-suburban snobbery and being tired of Philadelphia. I enjoy not living in strip-mall-ville somewhere on a cul-de-sac, but then again, Filthadelphia is not a very pretty place. I grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I love backpacking and scenery that is not man-made. There’s nothing really keeping us here—our extended families are 12+ hours away by car. Also, Philadelphia does not always seem like a “great place to raise a family.” I remember when we moved from the ‘burbs a few years ago—just at the time when my eldest son was starting kindergarten. People thought we were nuts. We were moving the wrong way. Everyone moves out when your kid turns 5, not in.

When I’m having a bad day, I generally like to visualize myself living in West Virginia.

You probably have someplace—likely not West Virginia, but some place nonetheless—that you like to believe would be better. Actually, what most of us really want is a place that is not just better, but a place where I am better, where I am more actualized and fulfilled. Not just a new scene, but a better me.

Isn’t that why we move around so much?

Looking for a better scene, I mean a better me? Every year, a sizeable chunk of the American population moves (see Restless Nation, by James Jasper). Why? Do we really think that we will be different just because the backdrop is different?

So, why stay?

Anti-suburban snobbery is not a very good reason—at least it does not satisfy my wanderlust. Laziness, either—the idea of moving makes me tired—but that is also not a good reason to stay. Susan and I have wrestled a long time with this issue. With family far away, the challenge of finding good schools in Philadelphia, and the cost of living—we have wrestled with this. Why stay?

Here’s what I have come up with:

1. Other backdrops don’t make a better me. I’m staying because I don’t believe the myth of a better me in a better scene. I’m looking for a deeper work of God in my life than cosmetic changes. And this has been a place where God is dealing with my discontent heart. It has been a laboratory for my soul, and this community at liberti is a safe place to be a broken person who needs the mercy and love of Jesus.
2. Philadelphia is not such a bad place for kids. Yes, it is not really clean. Yep, not the safest place, either. But suburbia is also a dangerous place to raise children, for other reasons. My kids have exposure to the great cultural offerings of the city, are growing up in a place where they have to learn to deal with people very different from them, and have a lot of spiritual “aunts and uncles.” Not bad.
3. I want my life to count for something. I’m staying because I don’t just want to be a consumer of lifestyles. I don’t just want to shop for the best deal for my family. I choose to believe that by staying in one place, by putting down roots, by trying to build long-term relationships, my life and those of our family might have an influence—be it ever so small—on other lives and even on the great city of Philadelphia.
4. As C.S. Lewis says, “If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, ‘Sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.’ I know I am very fortunate in that respect.” [The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves]. We Americans re-arrange our lives around work. Isn’t friendship/community more valuable in the long run?
5. I recognize that the ability to “choose my own adventure” is actually a sign of my richness—the fact that I even have the opportunity to choose my own adventure shows that I have options, that I am rich. Most people don’t have such possibilities. Staying here is an identification with the poor. It is an admission of my spiritual poverty—that I really am here because God has brought us here to Philadelphia, and he will make it abundantly clear when and if we need to leave. But not ‘til then.

Finally, I am trying to live as if America were not my dream.

As if this world were not my home. I’m trying hard to “look for a city whose architect and builder is God” (Hebrews 11:10, 16). The Bible begins in a garden and ends in a city. And it will be a city beyond “our ability to ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20). That’s my real home. This is just a taste. And with that, I can live and stay—even when things don’t work like they should. Even when life here is unsatisfying and even frustrating. Jesus promises it (John 14:2).

What about you?

The holidays are so much fun aren’t they? Christmas parties, gift-giving, holiday shopping, going home to see family and old friends

Many of you are truly looking forward to the holiday break….. a relief from the daily grind….. some gifts and levity…. time with your extended family….. extra time with your kids….

But there are probably a lot of you that enter into this season with mixed emotions:

Does it feel like, no matter how you travel (airplane, auto, train) to your family’s house, you always wind up arriving at “dysfunction junction”?

The stress of running around to buy gifts has you completely exhausted. Your parents push your buttons like no one else on the planet (that’s why you stormed out and slammed the screen door like you were in 8th grade again). The fact that it’s freaking dark at 5pm is beginning to make you just plain mad.

You see distant relatives every year and every year it’s awkward and you say to yourself “I really don’t know these people and they really don’t know me”

Maybe the whole thing seems more than a little disappointing year after year, and you relate to the many people who experience post-holiday depression.

I know that I have many great memories from holidays past and that I am someone who very much looks forward to any kind of vacation or break. But I also know that, for me at least, the drive home is always sad. This sadness encompasses everything from “wow—that didn’t quite do it for me. I’m not ready to face normal life again” to instances of realizing “everything that is wrong with our family was displayed and demonstrated in the past 48 hours”.

What do we make of this?

We’ve been preaching on texts from the book Isaiah this past month. Isaiah described and foretold the person and work of Jesus Christ, and he also foretold God’s wrapping up history and God’s eventual cleansing of the whole universe.

At one point, Isaiah describes a coming banquet:
“On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast or rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine
—the best of meats and the finest of wines.
On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all people,
the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces;….” (Isaiah 25:6f)

Plus, Isaiah tells us that God is not going to throw away the earth like a dirty napkin, eventually there will be a new, cleansed universe:
“Behold, I will create a new heaven and a new earth.” (Isaiah 65:17)

The end of all things is described as a party and a feast.

The setting is a new world cleansed of the greed, filth, and pollution that poison so much of who we are and so much of what we see around us.

Celebration, satisfying rest, worship, and joy—- sounds like a holiday, doesn’t it?

What’s this have to do with your holiday blahs??

1) When a holiday or vacation is actually satisfying and pleasant, when you are able to relax and laugh, and eat and rest, and see people you love and who love you—*you know you’ve received a tiny taste of what heaven will be like.*

We know that God is the ultimate source of any and every good thing we have ever experienced.
“You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” (Psalm 16:2)

After these experiences, we should thank God for his kindness in allowing us these tiny tastes of what it will be like to be in a new world with God and with his people!!

Maybe you get sad after holidays because it was good and now it is over.

2) When a holiday or vacation is depressing, unfulfilling, or even deeply painful, we are reminded that this is not all there is.

We are reminded that this world does indeed give us an itch that no holiday can scratch.

We need to look forward in hope, to the greater holiday to come. We need to seek that “rest” which will be truly satisfying. We need to hope for that “newness” which will not fade or wear out. Looking forward to the reunion with God and others that will truly mean a joy that will not end. A holiday without regret or disappointment that truly does satisfy.

So if you are presently annoyed and depressed by the holiday, or if you are already bracing yourself, do one more thing:

Comfort yourself. This is not all there is. Fix your eyes on what God has described and remember his promise:

“I am the LORD; in its time I will do this swiftly.”

In the book of Isaiah, the prophet deals with who God is as the Holy One of Israel, as Savior and Redeemer and as the Suffering Servant. Isaiah is given the task of presenting God to the nation of Israel in such a way as to show the nation her deep sin, but to also show her the deep love of God over his people.

This book is not just a message for ancient Israel, but is for us today, especially during this season when we celebrate the incarnation of the One True God.

This weeks readings:

• Sunday 12/17: 42:14-44:23
• Monday 12/18: 44:24-48:22
• Tuesday 12/19: 49-51
• Wednesday 12/20: 52-54
• Thursday 12/21: 55-59
• Friday 12/22: 60
• Saturday 12/23: 61-64
• Sunday 12/24: 65-66

In the book of Isaiah, the prophet deals with who God is as the Holy One of Israel, as Savior and Redeemer and as the Suffering Servant. Isaiah is given the task of presenting God to the nation of Israel in such a way as to show the nation her deep sin, but to also show her the deep love of God over his people.

This book is not just a message for ancient Israel, but is for us today, especially during this season when we celebrate the incarnation of the One True God.

This weeks readings:

• Sunday 12/10: 13-17
• Monday 12/11: 17-20
• Tuesday 12/12: 20-23
• Wednesday 12/13: 24-27
• Thursday 12/14: 28-33
• Friday 12/15: 34-35
• Saturday 12/16: 40-42:13

In the book of Isaiah, the prophet deals with who God is as the Holy One of Israel, as Savior and Redeemer and as the Suffering Servant. Isaiah is given the task of presenting God to the nation of Israel in such a way as to show the nation her deep sin, but to also show her the deep love of God over his people.

This book is not just a message for ancient Israel, but is for us today, especially during this season when we celebrate the incarnation of the One True God.

This weeks readings:

• Sunday 12/3: 1
• Monday 12/4: 2 – 4
• Tuesday 12/5: 5 – 6
• Wednesday 12/6: 7 – 8:15
• Thursday 12/7: 8:16 – 9:7
• Friday 12/8: 9:8 – 10
• Saturday 12/9: 11 – 12