In response to the growing need for resource material
to   serve    the    small    living   room-sized   groups   of
neighbors   who   are   coming   together   for  study  and
worship,  the minister team of Frank  and Barbara Potter
have been organizing  a  creative  network  of  what  they
call   "Spiritual  Journeyors."   They   publish   a  monthly
newsletter  filled  with  practical  tips  for what might be
done in such groups.  Their newsletter attracts a sizeable
correspondence  from  people involved in neighborhood
spiritual  study  groups  who  write  to  tell of their aims,
practices,  problems  and  solutions.  For  example, their
January  1976  issue  of  "COM" contained articles from
several   different   people   describing   how   keeping  a
spiritual  journal  has  helped  them along the path. Other
issues  have  dealt   with  themes  such  as  Commitment,
Sexuality,  Psychic Healing, Death and Dying,  Marriage:
Styles   and   Contracts,   and   Meditation;   all   oriented
toward  the  way  these themes might  be  worked with in
the  study group and with reports from other groups who
have worked with these themes.
      The  tone  of the newsletter is informal and personal.
The reader who is involved in  a study group finds it easy
to   identify   with   the  letters  and  articles  it  contains.
Besides   providing  many  useful  ideas,   the  newsletter
assures the reader that many  of  the challenges found in
one's  own  group  are  encountered  in other groups, and
that  the  search  for  spiritual  community  is  a vigorous
human enterprise. Henry Reed








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