Friday, June 22, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Participant Observation
Roger Shepherd and Corky Alexander had two participant observation experiences this weekend. They were an African American Church of Christ in Pasadena and First Nations Church in Santa Fe, Springs.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Presentations
Jared Looney
Jared talked about the Urban Village focusing on North American Global Cities as a context, asking, what is the missional potential of organic church networks for disciple making among diverse populations in global cities?
Jeff Fincher
The Development and Growth of a Missional University
under Jeff’s leadership between 7-800 students at Lipscomb University have been to 26 countries on 45 mission trips.
Rey Diaz
Rey believes in defending the weak, called to serve where 5,000 work in the vicinity of the dump in Tegucigalpa. He has recently been involved in a conference with Rene’ Padilla and Brian McLaren and many pastors.
Matt Powell
Is known to get a cup of coffee and a moleskin and involve himself in journaling. Inspired by Acts 17 story of Paul at the Areopegus and Saint Patrick, Matt talks about postmodern life in suburbia. His study is titled Missional Church Planting in a
Postmodern Suburban Context. He and his family are planting a new church in Katy, Texas.
Roger Shepherd
Spontaneous Church Growth in a Postmodern World
35 years trying to reverse his fellowship (Church of Christ) to “mission to church” instead of “church to Mission”. Having had his neck broken twice, Roger has logged 60-70,000 air miles a year in short term missions as a walking miracle.
Corky Alexander
Utililizing the biographical work of Althea Bass in her book, Cherokee Messenger, Corky analyzes the historical developments of Protestant missions among the Cherokee and traces it through the life and ministry of Rev. Samuel A. Worcester leading to the period of removal, contrasting the contemporary thought and ministry of the Native American Contextual movement to the missiological priorities of the Colonial model. Corky’s missiological integration paper is entitled, “Cherokee Messengers: Then and Now”.
Rice Broocks
The purpose of Rice's study is to develop a demographics-based model to establish a center for strategic evangelism in metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee so that believers will be equipped to share their faith, evangelists will be trained for their ministry, and resources will be provided for city-wide church planting. The goal of this study is to develop a model for establishing a center for strategic evangelism in Nashville, Tennessee.
Leo Lawson
Leo did a project that describes and evaluates the mission strategy of a U.S. New Apostolic Church that ministers to Postmoderns so as to develop a missional model to equip U.S. New Apostolic churches to evangelize the growing populations.
The days were good, the above presentations were given over the last two days. we were blessed to have Alan and Traver with us also doing presentations from their PhD tutorials.
Jared talked about the Urban Village focusing on North American Global Cities as a context, asking, what is the missional potential of organic church networks for disciple making among diverse populations in global cities?
Jeff Fincher
The Development and Growth of a Missional University
under Jeff’s leadership between 7-800 students at Lipscomb University have been to 26 countries on 45 mission trips.
Rey Diaz
Rey believes in defending the weak, called to serve where 5,000 work in the vicinity of the dump in Tegucigalpa. He has recently been involved in a conference with Rene’ Padilla and Brian McLaren and many pastors.
Matt Powell
Is known to get a cup of coffee and a moleskin and involve himself in journaling. Inspired by Acts 17 story of Paul at the Areopegus and Saint Patrick, Matt talks about postmodern life in suburbia. His study is titled Missional Church Planting in a
Postmodern Suburban Context. He and his family are planting a new church in Katy, Texas.
Roger Shepherd
Spontaneous Church Growth in a Postmodern World
35 years trying to reverse his fellowship (Church of Christ) to “mission to church” instead of “church to Mission”. Having had his neck broken twice, Roger has logged 60-70,000 air miles a year in short term missions as a walking miracle.
Corky Alexander
Utililizing the biographical work of Althea Bass in her book, Cherokee Messenger, Corky analyzes the historical developments of Protestant missions among the Cherokee and traces it through the life and ministry of Rev. Samuel A. Worcester leading to the period of removal, contrasting the contemporary thought and ministry of the Native American Contextual movement to the missiological priorities of the Colonial model. Corky’s missiological integration paper is entitled, “Cherokee Messengers: Then and Now”.
Rice Broocks
The purpose of Rice's study is to develop a demographics-based model to establish a center for strategic evangelism in metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee so that believers will be equipped to share their faith, evangelists will be trained for their ministry, and resources will be provided for city-wide church planting. The goal of this study is to develop a model for establishing a center for strategic evangelism in Nashville, Tennessee.
Leo Lawson
Leo did a project that describes and evaluates the mission strategy of a U.S. New Apostolic Church that ministers to Postmoderns so as to develop a missional model to equip U.S. New Apostolic churches to evangelize the growing populations.
The days were good, the above presentations were given over the last two days. we were blessed to have Alan and Traver with us also doing presentations from their PhD tutorials.
Our cohort in Pasadena yesterday (2007 Module)
We had dinner at Dan's last night. We got to meet Georgia and Lou and Betsy Glanville were there also. Here we are pictured in the Shaw's beautiful garden in front of a lemon tree (very pretty). Pictured also is Traver and Alan, 2 PhD students who have been with us.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Our group in 2006
Top-left to right-Jared Looney (Bronx, NY), Leo Lawson (Nashville, TN), Roger Shepherd (McDonough, GA), Matt Powell (Katy, TX), Rey Diaz (Tegucigalpa, Honduras), Rice Broocks (Nashville, TN). Front Row-left to right- Jeff Fincher (Nashville, TN), me, Dr. Dan Shaw (Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena CA).
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