Morningside/Harlem
Morningside-Harlem Missional Community
For the rest of the summer we will meet weekly immediately after the Sunday morning service. We will continue exploring ways to love God and our fellow brother and sisters, seek personal transformation and be Christ to our neighborhood and our world. Please gather in the lobby after service and look for one of the leaders.
For more info about each week, check out the MoHa googlegroup or contact Dipo and Niki
Lunch in Central ParkPast Meetings
Sunday, June 6: Loving God…Simply. The MC met at the Ashiru for worship and Jessica Biddy led a discussion on the spiritual discipline of Simplicity and the role that it plays in our relationship with God.
Sunday, May 23: Loving the World, Serving the MoHa neighborhood. Handed out free bottles of water to our neighbors and engaged in conversation.
Sunday, May 16: The women met to continue exploring this month’s spiritual discipline – Confession.
Sunday, May 9: Loving Others. Dreadfully cold weather notwithstanding, we met on this Mother’s Day for a picnic — indoors at WholeFoods!
Sunday, May 2: Loving God. We met at the Dwyer Cultural Center to explore the Spiritual Discipline of Confession. Andy Biddy shared his experience, uses and misuses of accountability and the fruit of forgiveness and freedom produced by faithful confession.
Sunday, April 25: Loving the World.
We split up into small groups to engage in self-directed personal expressions of God’s goodness and love to neighbors in our buildings or people on our blocks.
Sunday, April 18: Loving Self, Pursuing Personal Wholeness. Men and Women met in separate groups to explore what it means to ‘celebrate’ oneself and develop a right vision of our true identity in Christ.
Sunday, April 11: Loving Others. Potluck meal at the Byrd & Bowman residence. Oh, how good and pleasant it was to break bread and relax in the fellowship of other believers.
Sunday, April 4: Celebrating the risen King! Easter Brunch at Elisabeth’s.
Sunday, March 21: Pursuing Personal Wholeness…Men and Women met in separate groups at the Biddy’s and Vicky’s, respectively, to delve into generational patterns and declare healing and freedom over one another in prayer.
Sunday, March 14: We shared a delicious potluck meal together and settled down to a brutal game of “Mafia”. Laughter and hilarity ensued.
Sunday, March 7: “…a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks” – John 4:23. We met at the Dwyer Cultural Center, 258 Saint Nicholas Avenue at 123rd St to worship God together. Brendan shared his testimony and Niki gave an exhortation on “Powerful and Effective Prayer”.
(Sunday, Feb 28): While the snowstorm prevented us from engaging in cleaning the streets of our community, we took the opportunity to huddle at Vicky Samaritano’s to watch a documentary on the history of NYC and to pray for the city.
Sun, Feb 21: The men and women’s groups met separately (at the Village Pourhouse and the Biddy’s, respectively) to pursue personal wholeness and transformation. We wrestled with the question: “If you were to die tomorrow, what would you like your epitaph to say?” and prophetically prayed for one another that God would continue to shape and to make true each person’s desire.
Sun, Feb 14: The MC met at the Biddy’s residence to elebrate the romantic Valentine’s day holiday in an intimate, fun and low pressure family atmosphere.
Sun, Feb 7: The saints of God celebrated the NO Saints and the IN Colts in an epic battle for american football supremacy. It was a ‘Saintly’ triumph.
Sun, Jan 31: Worshipping God together at the Dwyer cultural center in Central Harlem.
Sun, Jan 24: Monthly mission – Prayer Walk. A group of nine met after the morning service to discuss the demographics and spiritual needs of the parish. Afterwards, the group split into two. One team walked through south Harlem and the other through the Upper West Side while each prayed strategically for the respective neighborhoods. All lunched afterwards at the Saigon Grill.
Sun, Jan 17: The Morningside Harlem (MoHa) missional community was launched. Turn out was very encouraging with a mix of new and familiar faces. After sharing a meal together, Jon Tyson and the leaders delivered the vision for the missional community. We are excited to see what God does in, through and around us as we focus on the four values of loving God, Self, Others and the World.