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a 4th of july invitation Posted by John Hardin 07.02.2010 8:02 am

For those who aren’t cool enough to already have plans for 4th of July weekend, please consider settling for some burgers and hang-out time at the Hardin House on Sunday. We’ll cook/hang out and then (possibly) head down the road to Knoop Park to watch the city’s fireworks show over the river. Thanks to the awesome deal on burger patties at Whole Foods, we’ll take care of the meat*, buns & fixings. So, we’ll need the following:

  • Corn on the cob
  • Desserts
  • Traditional sides (baked beans, potato salad, etc.)*

We’ll have tea, water, pop and juice. Adult beverages welcome, but BYOB.

Kiddos are certainly welcome.

When: Sunday, July 4th. 6:00PM
Where: 2501 Kavanaugh Blvd., Apt. B†

Either email john at johnwhardin@me.com or reply to FB invitation so we can have some sense of how much food to buy. I’ll let those bringing food know as well.

*Keep in mind that when making your sides that within our group may well be vegetarians. I’ll have some black bean burgers ready to go as well.

†If, by some chance, we have a lot of folks and kids who want to come, we may change locations. I’ll make sure the word gets out if so.

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eikon informational meeting! Posted by Ryan Byrd 07.04.2009 3:40 pm

i’m very excited to (finally) be able to tell you guys about our next eikon shindig. after the success of last month’s cookout, on sunday, july 19 at 6:00 p.m., we’ll be having an informational meeting at vino’s.

there’s two reasons you might want to come to this meeting:

1. if you’ve ever wanted to know anything about this whole eikon thing, you don’t want to miss this meeting. during our time together, we’ll talk about the who, what, where, when, why & how of eikon. whereas it’s difficult to distill the totality of information into an hour or so, we really think this meeting should give a very clear picture of what we’re trying to do with this new faith community.

OR…

2. if you really love calzones, pizza and pale ale from vino’s, this meeting’s for you. :) even if you couldn’t care less about this church thing, you can certainly just come hang out with us, grab some pizza & a beer and meet a few new people. and who knows, maybe while you’re there you’ll hear something that resonates with you.

either way, it’s a great time to come hang out with us. if there was ever a time to jump in on this eikon thing, this meeting would be it. whereas the cookout was very laid back and cookout-ish (you like that?… cookoutish…), this meeting will be very much information-driven (although we’ll definitely take a good 45 minutes or so of just hanging out and eating dinner together).

we’d love for you to help us spread the word. there’s several things you can do:

  1. 1. tell your friends about it.
  2. 2. email a link to this blog post.
  3. 3. direct them to our facebook page and/or the facebook event page.
  4. 4. tell them about our twitter, where there will be updated information.
  5. 5. tell them to call or email ryan to hear some more about what’s going on.
  6. 6. send them to our website. while it’s not much right now, it will give them a launching point to other relevant information.

we hope to see you there and hope to meet quite a few new people. see you in a couple weeks!

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eikon cookout: the day after Posted by Ryan Byrd 06.08.2009 7:37 pm

as most of you know who have been keeping up with the blog (or twitter or facebook or have talked to me…) or for those who actually know how to scroll down the page and have read the previous post, we had our first ever gathering for eikon. in this case, it was a cookout at our (ryan & christen’s) house last night (sunday, june 7).

i’m excited to say that it was a big success. while we had a good-sized crowd, i’m not really big on judging things based on how many showed up. rather, i was really excited about the great interactions and the relationships that began. of course, i had a good idea of who all would show up, but it was even great for me to meet quite a few people for the first time. it was cool to see everyone really making connections with other people and sharing a little about where they’re at in regards to their faith journey and levels of interest in finding a place to connect and worship.

so, if you thought about coming but couldn’t make it out for whatever reason, while we certainly missed you last night, there are definitely upcoming opportunities to come hang out and get to know a little about this thing called eikon.

we don’t have a definitive date set, but some time in mid/late july, we’ll have our next gathering. much like the cookout, it will be very casual and a great entry point, but we’ll also—in contrast to the cookout—have a bit more of an informational time. we’ll share a little about why we’re starting a church, how we’re going about it and some of the things that are guiding values and theologies. it should be a really great time to come for the first time, or, of course, come back if you attended the cookout.

so, be looking out for that. as soon as we get a definite date locked down, we’ll get the word out in various forums (website, facebook, twitter, smoke signals, sky writers…).

speaking of various forums, we’re very excited to be a matter of days away from the official launch of the eikon website. naturally, as soon as that launches, we’ll get the word out and this temp site will be permanently redirected to that site. the website will be a great place to get a lot more information and a great resource to pass along to friends who might want to know more.

finally, if you want to see a handful of pictures from last night’s cookout, you can see some on our fledgling flickr page. we didn’t get a shot of everybody or everything, but you can get a little glimpse of what went down. in you’re just too lazy or apathetic to click the above link, here’s a couple from last night. :) (by the way, a huge thanks to cara beth buie for shooting the event last night. cara beth’s a great photographer who’s just starting out and a friend of eikon. you’ll see much more of her in the future at eikon and you can find a little more about her and her husband, brent, at their blog.)

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a couple more cookout details Posted by Ryan Byrd 06.04.2009 6:38 pm

a couple weeks ago, as most of you have probably seen, i announced here on the blog that we’re having our first ever gathering for eikon. this coming sunday night (june 7), we’ll be hosting a cookout at our house.

we’re really excited about it and we know we have a lot of people planning on coming out. let me again emphasize that this will not be a worship service or really any kind of “churchy” sort of thing. this will simply be a very laid back cookout. we won’t ask people to fill stuff out. we won’t be doing any kind of speaking or anything. there won’t be any kind of weird “getting to know you” kind of stuff. it will just be a chance to meet a few new people and get a sense of all the other people that have been hearing all the same things as you about eikon church.

we’ll kick things off at 5 p.m. for those of you with children under 5, we’ll be offering free child care in our home, provided by a great friend who’s the mother of three (so she sorta knows what she’s doing). :) to see a map to our house, click here (we’re the house directly next to the empress bed & breakfast). to be more exact, our address is 2118 s. louisiana st in little rock (governor’s mansion district).as one final note of clarification, we’ll be having the cookout directly behind our house in a garden type of space that is owned by the empress bed & breakfast (so, in other words, not actually in our house). you can park in our driveway or on the street and then enter the garden space by walking behind our house (down our driveway, through the gate and then to the left). we should have basic signs pointing the way.

if you have questions, feel free to call me (ryan) at 501.551.8118 or shoot me an email at eikon [at] beingryanbyrd [dot] com.

we’re really excited about the cookout, so we definitely hope you come out. see you sunday night!

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eikon cookout! Posted by Ryan Byrd 05.21.2009 8:52 pm

eikon cookout

after months of planning and organizing, i’m very excited to announce that, on sunday, june 7, eikon will have its first ever public gathering. christen and i will be having a cookout at our house. we have a kind of cool garden type space behind our house, so that should be a good place to hang out, meet some new people and have some burgers and some beers.

let me emphasize that this will not be a worship service or really any kind of “churchy” sort of thing. this will simply be a very laid back cookout. we won’t ask people to fill stuff out. we won’t be doing any kind of speaking or anything. there won’t be any kind of weird “getting to know you” kind of stuff. it will just be a chance to meet a few new people and get a sense of all the other people that have been hearing all the same things as you about eikon church.we’ll kick things off at 5 p.m. and we’ll wrap things up around 8 p.m. for those of you with children under 5, we’ll be offering free child care in our home. to see a map to our house, click here (we’re the house directly next to the empress bed & breakfast). to be more exact, our address is 2118 s. louisiana st in little rock.so, we’re very excited about the cookout, so we definitely hope you come out! this will be the soft launch for the church, so we’ll have much more information in the coming weeks.

on another big note, we’re very close to launch the real deal eikon website. in the next couple days, we’ll have some temporary stuff up on the site, but the fully site should be up and running in the next 2-3 weeks. so, be looking out for more info on that.

alright, mark your calendars for the cookout. if you have questions, feel free to call me (ryan) at 501.551.8118 or shoot me an email at eikon [at] beingryanbyrd [dot] com. see you in a couple weeks!

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