defining missional church
defining missional church - post and discussion over at: http://www.theforgottenways.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/11/a-working-definition-of-missional-church/#more-239
web2.0ols for a devolved church
just one of the many activities of run (reaching the unchurched network) is publishing several articles a month on missional themes. sometimes lighthearted, often touching on emerging church and always with a mission-focus, they’re currently looking at using web2.0 to foster church community.
you have to sign up to get access although rumour has it that they may be making older articles available for free before long. take a peek at: http://www.run.org.uk/sprint/sprintmaghome.aspx
worship tricks series 3
jonny baker’s worship tricks kicked into a third series in may and are going as strong as ever with several ideas and reources added in the last month. if you’ve not checked these out before, why not?! go to: http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/worship_tricks_series_thr.html
canadian emerging church - the movie
from the homepage of this interesting project:
Truth be told, ‘one size fits all’ really doesn’t fit anybody – not very well, at least - especially when experiencing new forms of church.
Over the next twelve months we invite you to journey with us in our attempt to capture to film what God is up to in Canada on our shift as the church. Focusing primarily on church plants and other new forms of church, this initiative is not a ‘how to’ but rather a ‘how it is’. Our hope? To discover, encourage and connect church leaders and communities…and have a little fun in the process.
follow their progress at: http://www.thinkerlabs.ca/documentary
turn over that stone
matt stone (sydeney, australia) has been compiling his top 20 posts - based on responses rather than traffic generated. check them out (and his fantatstic online collection of christian art from diverse cultures) at: http://mattstone.blogs.com/
Wikiklesia
An interesting sounding US-based project has just been announced:
“The Wikiklesia Project is an on-line, self-organizing, collaborative, virtual publishing event that has been completed from start to finish in just days.
Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution explores the growing influence of technology on the global Christian church. In addition to the writing of Thomas Hohstadt, the book includes more than forty influential voices. A press release can be found here: (http://wikiklesia.wikidot.com/press-release-volume-one) and the book can be ordered here: (http://stores.lulu.com/wikiklesia) All profits go to charity.“
a year of living generously
ok, so there’s now only 6 months of living generously left. but if you’re in the uk you may well want to check this out: http://generous.org.uk
tools of the trade - vj-ing
if you’ve been wondering what people are using to mix movies, images and lyrics in worship, then wonder no longer. arkaos is proving to be the vj software of choice on the uk alt.worship scene.
you can download a trial version and have a go yourself from: http://www.arkaos.net
2 into 1 does go
…as sue wallace of visions (york uk) proves as she combines her two blogs into one. sue is visions coordinator, composer as now their priest too (congratulations sue!). visit her blog at: http://suewallace.blogspot.com/
and check out the story she wrote for our launch issue at: http://www.emergingchurch.info/stories/visions/index.htm
sojourn dublin with mark berry - podcast
a large selection of podcasts covering culture, theology and emerging church can be found at patrick dobson’s site: http://www.patrickdodson.net/Podcast/Podcast.html
the latest is of mark berry (hOME). mark says on his blog “it was an off the cuff type talk, so I may have been talking complete garbage!”. go judge for yourself. there’s a pdf of his powerpoint to download also.