and be sure that you enter the card number exactly as it appears on the card and the billing name exactly as it appears for your bank....
So, register!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
registration temporarily broken...
But should be fixed by tomorrow afternoon...
So please do register! Just don't be surprised if it doesn't work today...
Peace,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
So please do register! Just don't be surprised if it doesn't work today...
Peace,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
emergingumc: a gathering... registration
I'm pleased that I can finally announce that registration is now officially open for our fall conference, emergingumc: a gathering.
Click here for details!
Click here for details!
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Membership and Emerging Ministry
I've been an observer to a consultation here in Nashville dealing with issues of ecclesiology, leadership and church membership in the UMC.
One of the persistent themes in the conversation around membership and ecclesiology is a kind of hope that we might find some ways to restore some kind of process for intentionally preparing persons to become professing members in our churches-- something FAR more substantial than the "typical" 2-3 session "new members class" that, as many of us have probably experienced, tends to be more about how the local church works than anything about helping people learn much about say the Trinity, or how to pray, or even basic principles and practices (such as Wesley's General Rules) for growing in grace as disciples of Jesus Christ...
So... what do YOU do, or what might you HOPE to do (if you're not quite there yet) to be prepare folks for a life of discipleship in the covenant commitment of baptism and professing membership?
Peace in Christ,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
One of the persistent themes in the conversation around membership and ecclesiology is a kind of hope that we might find some ways to restore some kind of process for intentionally preparing persons to become professing members in our churches-- something FAR more substantial than the "typical" 2-3 session "new members class" that, as many of us have probably experienced, tends to be more about how the local church works than anything about helping people learn much about say the Trinity, or how to pray, or even basic principles and practices (such as Wesley's General Rules) for growing in grace as disciples of Jesus Christ...
So... what do YOU do, or what might you HOPE to do (if you're not quite there yet) to be prepare folks for a life of discipleship in the covenant commitment of baptism and professing membership?
Peace in Christ,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
Monday, February 12, 2007
What's Wrong (or Right?) with This...
From a real email reminder for a real upcoming continuing ed seminar-- names removed to protect the innocent (or perpetrators, depending on your view...)... Comments encouraged..
If your church wishes to reach out to young people under the age of 35, then this seminar will give you practical ideas and strategies for reaching this emerging and spiritually-seeking generation
CATCH THE WAVE -- The Emerging, Organic Church - A Hitchhiker's Guide
February xx-yy, 2007
Place: A retreaty place
Leader: Expert type
Fee: $75 (Appointed ministers, full or part-time $60)
Clergy/Laity welcome
Join writer and researcher Expert Type as s/he describes his/her travels across North America and England to investigate 12 wildly different, but unusually effective young churches that are reaching today's postmodern minds. You will learn how your church can implement strategies created in the improvisational and experimental milieu of youth-orientated churches. These churches, sometimes called "emerging congregations" because of their rapid and organic growth offer dozens of ideas that almost any church can utilize to reach younger generations.
Drumming circles, labyrinths, worship in painting and sculpture, iconography, multi-cultural outreach, ministry to the disenfranchised, internet discipleship, urban extensions of suburban church ministry, clustering small groups, cell churches, and organic leadership are just of few of the unique strategies that Expert Type will explain and draw implications for the local church.
Expert Type is an author, professor, international speaker and researcher on the organic church, non-profit management and church growth. ET is also an Academic Type in an Academic Type Institution, training tomorrow's leaders from dozens of denominations. Expert Type has penned over 140 published articles on church leadership and management, and is the author of four books in six years for A Publishing Concern including: A Whole Bevy of Books about Different Ways to Fix Your Church or Keep from Breaking It or How To Copy What Other People Are Doing in Totally Different Contexts than Yours and Call It Innovative Ministry
If your church wishes to reach out to young people under the age of 35, then this seminar will give you practical ideas and strategies for reaching this emerging and spiritually-seeking generation
CATCH THE WAVE -- The Emerging, Organic Church - A Hitchhiker's Guide
February xx-yy, 2007
Place: A retreaty place
Leader: Expert type
Fee: $75 (Appointed ministers, full or part-time $60)
Clergy/Laity welcome
Join writer and researcher Expert Type as s/he describes his/her travels across North America and England to investigate 12 wildly different, but unusually effective young churches that are reaching today's postmodern minds. You will learn how your church can implement strategies created in the improvisational and experimental milieu of youth-orientated churches. These churches, sometimes called "emerging congregations" because of their rapid and organic growth offer dozens of ideas that almost any church can utilize to reach younger generations.
Drumming circles, labyrinths, worship in painting and sculpture, iconography, multi-cultural outreach, ministry to the disenfranchised, internet discipleship, urban extensions of suburban church ministry, clustering small groups, cell churches, and organic leadership are just of few of the unique strategies that Expert Type will explain and draw implications for the local church.
Expert Type is an author, professor, international speaker and researcher on the organic church, non-profit management and church growth. ET is also an Academic Type in an Academic Type Institution, training tomorrow's leaders from dozens of denominations. Expert Type has penned over 140 published articles on church leadership and management, and is the author of four books in six years for A Publishing Concern including: A Whole Bevy of Books about Different Ways to Fix Your Church or Keep from Breaking It or How To Copy What Other People Are Doing in Totally Different Contexts than Yours and Call It Innovative Ministry
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The Emerging Church and Global Warming
Friends,
I've been working on an article on worship and global warming for the past couple of days... and several things along the way have gotten me thinking.
1) We don't have any language that specifically addresses our care for the planet (or God's other creations) in our baptismal vows
2) Most of our churches probably never pray for the earth or its welfare, or the welfare of other creatures or lifeforms on it
3) We don't have any entities in the UMC whose purpose is to organize us for caring for the environment (Church and Society is about advocacy more than grass-roots action-- not a criticism, but a point of awareness!)
4) Despite the talk about a "new environmentalism" as part of the current generation generally and the emerging missional church particularly, in casting about on some "emerging" websites over the weekend after the monumental announcement last Friday, not word one from the blogs... at least not the ones I saw.
So, let me kick it back to y'all...
How are the congregations where you serve responding to the latest report on the realities of global warming and the need to radically REVERSE (not simply stabilize) greenhouse gas emissions (especially CO2) if we're going to see any reduction in the predicted massive changes in sea level, precipitation patterns, climate change, and the attending changes that will affect all life on the planet?
Or perhaps better... how might we as United Methodists who are into this whole emerging missional thing actually help lead our church (and congregations where we serve and communities where we live) get a handle on it? What are some things we can do as communities of the body of Christ together that will reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions as individuals and churches, and help others do the same?
Peace in Christ,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
I've been working on an article on worship and global warming for the past couple of days... and several things along the way have gotten me thinking.
1) We don't have any language that specifically addresses our care for the planet (or God's other creations) in our baptismal vows
2) Most of our churches probably never pray for the earth or its welfare, or the welfare of other creatures or lifeforms on it
3) We don't have any entities in the UMC whose purpose is to organize us for caring for the environment (Church and Society is about advocacy more than grass-roots action-- not a criticism, but a point of awareness!)
4) Despite the talk about a "new environmentalism" as part of the current generation generally and the emerging missional church particularly, in casting about on some "emerging" websites over the weekend after the monumental announcement last Friday, not word one from the blogs... at least not the ones I saw.
So, let me kick it back to y'all...
How are the congregations where you serve responding to the latest report on the realities of global warming and the need to radically REVERSE (not simply stabilize) greenhouse gas emissions (especially CO2) if we're going to see any reduction in the predicted massive changes in sea level, precipitation patterns, climate change, and the attending changes that will affect all life on the planet?
Or perhaps better... how might we as United Methodists who are into this whole emerging missional thing actually help lead our church (and congregations where we serve and communities where we live) get a handle on it? What are some things we can do as communities of the body of Christ together that will reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions as individuals and churches, and help others do the same?
Peace in Christ,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
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