Bob Hyatt leads a session during the 2009 Aggelos church planting conference in Richmond, VA.
Bob is the pastor at Evergreen Community Church in Portland, OR and blogs here.
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The Good News Blog Series
JR Woodward, one of the pastors Kairos, an Ecclesia church in LA, recently concluded a fantastic series of blog posts on the Good News.
Contributors to this series included authors, bloggers, professors, and practitioners. It contained perspectives from different ethnicities and different genders, as well as from Asia, South America, Europe and North America. In this blog series each of the contributors summarized their understanding of the Good News in 300 to 500 words.
The series was excellent and we had a number of Ecclesia Pastors who took part in the series. You can find a full list of contributors here.
Scripture & Culture Seminar
- How do we read and interact with scripture as communities of faith?
- How do we read and interact culture as communities of faith?
These two questions will be giving shape to our time together during this day.
We are excited to have two exceptional conversation partners for this event:
Dr. Darrell Guder
Dr. Guder is the Dean of Academic Affairs and Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology at Princteon Theological Seminary and author of the landmark book Missional Church, among others.Andy Crouch
Andy is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. (Read more about Andy here)
Event Schedule:
- 10:00am – 12:00pm / Reading Scripture with Dr. Guder
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm / Lunch at local restaurants
- 1:00pm – 3:00pm / Culture Making with Andy Crouch
- 3:00pm – 4:00pm / Panel & Discussion led by Scott Jones
About the Location:
The Well is a church community in Feasterville, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. Check out some pictures of the seminar space here.
More info and registration for this seminar: http://scriptureandculture09.eventbrite.com/
Scripture & Culture Seminar
- How do we read and interact with scripture as communities of faith?
- How do we read and interact culture as communities of faith?
These two questions will be giving shape to our time together during this day.
We are excited to have two exceptional conversation partners for this event:
Dr. Darrell Guder
Dr. Guder is the Dean of Academic Affairs and Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology at Princteon Theological Seminary and author of the landmark book Missional Church, among others.Andy Crouch
Andy is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. (Read more about Andy here)
Event Schedule:
- 10:00am – 12:00pm / Reading Scripture with Dr. Guder
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm / Lunch at local restaurants
- 1:00pm – 3:00pm / Culture Making with Andy Crouch
- 3:00pm – 4:00pm / Panel & Discussion led by Scott Jones
About the Location:
The Well is a church community in Feasterville, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. Check out some pictures of the seminar space here.
More info and registration for this seminar: http://scriptureandculture09.eventbrite.com/
Aggelos Church Planters Training – What is it?
JR Woodward tells more about the Aggelos Training event we are hosting from May 18-22, 2009.
It is not difficult to realize that church planting is something more people are doing and seeking to do, because there are many opportunities for church planters to get training, coaching and resources. As a person who has been planting churches for some time and who loves to help church planters, I wanted to let you know about a training event that is happening this coming May in Richmond, Virginia.
Aggelos
Aggelos is a greek word meaning a messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel or a messenger from God. It is the name of a theological and practical training for missional church planting that is hosted by the Ecclesia Network, a relational network of churches, leaders and movements that I work with.
Who is this For?
This training time is designed for people who are seeking to plant a church within the next two years or are within the first two years of a church plant. It is taught by over a half dozen church planters with a wide and varied range of experience and expertise. So if you are in this category continue to read. If you know people in this category, please point them to this blog entry.
How is this Training Unique?
There are a number of distinctives that I enjoy about this particular training time. First of all it is held at Richmond Hill Urban Retreat Center, a Christian ecumenical retreat center in the heart of Richmond. We actually join their prayer rhythms for the week. We do our meals together which allow people to connecting informally with church plant coaches, fellow church planters as well as spiritual directors. It is both theological and practical. It is interactive and taught by practical theologians, meaning people who have been trained theologically and actually plant churches. It is designed for church planters and their teams.