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01 July 2009
but have been turned off by the religiosity that they have encountered. So, in January of 2010 Duane launched the first meeting of “The Gathered”. To say that the Gathered is a bible study group is far too narrow of a definition. It is a place where faith and doubt are dance partners. A place where misfits, seekers, hurting, and questioners come together in their search of spiritual significance.
“The Hebrew prophet Hosea once said ‘My people perish for lack of knowledge’. People perish not from a lack of money, resources, talent, skills, potential, or abilities but from a lack of knowledge, proving once and for all that what you don’t know can and most certainly will hurt you. Our number one goal is to get people to think, to awaken their hearts and minds to the knowledge that there is no obstacle that cannot be overcome after all once you realize that what else is there?”