We’re having a gathering, “a commons“, where people can gather and talk to each other, encourage and learn from one another in the task of seeding missional communities. And so I wanted to open it up to a few more people who are involved in the fray of missional church! For anyone interested, here’s the scoop.

About 20 of us are gathering on Saturday Jan 5th at Life on the Vine to talk “missional community germination.” The basic practices of “seeding Missional Communities.” Who will be there?: Missional community “planters” (or soon to be ) in Minnesota, Fort Wayne, Champaign as well as others including several leader-types from Life on the Vine.

We will gather at 8 a.m. and close by 3:30 p.m. We will have 4 20-minute presentations during the day and then extended times to talk, ask questions, pray, encourage and flesh out what this life looks like we have been called into by the grace of God. I will talk for about 15 minutes about the theology of all this, I will have someone talk about the process/theology/missiology of constructing a worship liturgy, someone talk about discipleship (Christian formational practices), someone talk about mission in the “hoods.”

Frankly, I will not be able to do any organizing for this. By this I mean I can’t find you all hotel rooms (if you need em) or places to stay even with people in our own church (although others might be willing to try – I can put an e-mail out). I’m just awefully busy with my two and half jobs.

But there is NO COST!!! You just have to be able to get here by yourselves, and take care of your lodging and food. I recommend the Holiday Inn Express, La Quinta Inn, or Comfort Inn.

We gather at 8 a.m. Sat Jan 5th at “the Vine” … we close by 3.30 p.m. in afternoon.

We can handle about ten more people. Any takers? E-mail me via the Life on the Vine website.