Follow Updates on Renov8 Congress in Calgary

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Ro

Pomotheo will be posting some routine updates via Twitter relating to the Renov8 congress that kicks off tonight at 7PM. The Renov8 Congress is headed by Church Planting Canada and features speakers like Michael Frost.

He will be speaking for free tonight at 7PM so everyone can come out and see him. Seating won't be a problem since it's in the biggest church in Calgary (a bit ironic).

Nonetheless, you can follow updates on Twitter here. Also, Calgary Church will head an after hours discussion for those not committed to community/denominational meetings after the daily events. They'd like to extend an invitation to join the missional church planting discussion for all participants of the Renov8 Congress. Continue reading →

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Renov8 Congress Comes to Calgary

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Ro

The Renov8 Church Planting Congress is coming to Calgary in a week and a half and we're gearing up for the arrival of some of the countries brightest missional / church planting thinkers and leaders.

I don't know what other churches in Calgary are doing, but Calgary Church would like to engage some of the folks who are from out of town, and close to home, who are interested in extending the missional church dialogue into the evening.

It appears the congress has left evenings free, so if you're schedule is not booked up, we're going to reserve some space in downtown Calgary to continue our discussion. Mind as well make the most of your time here. This is open to anybody and everybody who wants to dialogue, share stories, muse, etc., with like minded missional thinkers.

Location has not yet been determined but will likely be in the Kensington area of town. Would anybody be interested?

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Fresh +Refresh Canadian Missional Perspectives Book

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Ro

Current Denominations Fail at Connecting with Missional Churches?

A New Book from Allelon Publishing, edited by Len Hjalmarson & Brent Toderash, is survey of some of the latest and emerging churches across Canada. The book has been delayed and delayed but I finally snuck a copy out of the hands of one of the contributors.

I'm always a sucker for new Canadian made church surveys, they're rare but invaluable for Canadian context ministry.

Half of the book was devoted to contributors taking a 'fresh' approach to the gospel message and church. The other half were re-freshing their current approach to church. I didn't find the latter to be very interesting, but I do see it's value. Continue reading →

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Great Missional Dialogue Videos

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Ro

I have to get on the bandwagon and post these resources for missional church prowlers online. It's a great dialogue to watch and muse upon. Without further ado:

Ed Stetzer & David Fitch - a missional conversation from Missional Tribe .

Ed Stetzer & Dave Fitch - a missional conversation Part II from Bill Kinnon .

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Attractional Church is Extractional Church

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Ro

Attractional Churches = Extractional Churches

This equation is not a unique idea to me but rather was mentioned by Alan Hirsch during a recent conference.

Missional heads have used the term 'attractional' to describe the majority of churches and their operations to 'attract' people into their buildings with programs and 'outreach' events. The saying goes, this consumerist mentality is killing the organic nature of our church 'growth' models.

Rather than using the word attractional perhaps a better word is in fact 'extractional' in that we extract people from culture, have them do all the cross-cultural work to learn what it means to be a right-wing bible thumping movie hating Christian. Continue reading →

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