Sponsored by the Center for Action and Contemplation

Join three days of lively conversation about the “emerging” future of Christianity and Non-dualism, a foundational belief of emerging Christians throughout the world.

Featured Speakers

Richard Rohr
Suzanne Stabile
Tony Jones
Phyllis Tickle
Brian McLaren

Inspiring the Revolution of Second.

I am Second is a movement meant to inspire people of all kinds to live for God and for others. Actors. Athletes. Musicians. Business leaders. Drug addicts. Your next-door neighbor. People like you. The authentic stories on iamsecond.com provide insight into dealing with typical struggles of everyday living. These are stories that give hope to the lonely and the hurting, help from destructive lifestyles, and inspiration to the unfulfilled. You’ll discover people who’ve tried to go it alone and have failed. Find the hope, peace, and fulfillment they found. Be Second.

www.iamsecond.com

October 18–22, 2010

First Presbyterian Church

Fort Worth, Texas

Sponsored by:

Grace Presbytery & the Office of Church Growth

The 2010 Transformation Conference is an event that will bring together pastors, elders, and other church leaders to talk about, dream about, learn about congregational transformation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Register here.

To learn more, and download a brochure, click here.

For more information about housing and workshops, click here.

The Office of Church Growth is pleased to announce the arrival of our hotly anticipated Congregational Transformation discernment process.  Like the “Starting New Churches” resource for New Church Development, “Starting New Initiatives” is not designed as a “quick fix,” but rather, is a process of prayer, discernment, conversation, and reflection for congregations to decide how they can best minister in their particular context(s)

To download the booklet, click here.

Paper copies of the booklet are available from the Office of Church Growth by calling 1-888-728-7228, ext. 5088 or emailing at meredith.kemp-pappan@pcusa.org.

Missional Church Simple

for Church and Presbytery Teams

November 3-5 2010

Hosted by: Riverside Presbyterian Church

Sterling, VA

Discern the core values and plans for ministry, outreach and leadership for starting a church today.   The “New Church Development Training for Church and Presbytery Teams” event at Riverside Presbyterian Church will focus on the of Starting New Churches resource.

For more information, go here.

8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Calvary Baptist Church

123 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019

(from the website)

The objective of Movement Day is to:

• Convene leaders from across Greater New York and other large cities to hear the trends related to cities, urban ministry, and urban leadership from the best Christian thinkers; to

• Study the best models of urban gospel movements; and to

• Collaborate in new ways to reach and renew our metropolitan communities.

Movement Day is an invitation-only opportunity to be a part of an historic gathering of leaders learning from one another across our largest cities in North America.

For more information, go here.

The mission of the Transforming Theology network is to tighten the bonds between theology and transformative action in the church and the world…The Transforming Theology project pursues a three-pronged approach for deepening the relationship between theology and transformative action. The “Transforming the Church” page describes steps being taken to strengthen the networks of Christians across the denominations who share with one another the passion for a transforming and transformative theology. The “Seminaries and Divinity Schools” page describes new initiatives in theological education that are helping to train future religious leaders according to these priorities and to disseminate them more broadly….Our task is not to establish strict criteria for what counts as acceptable or unacceptable theology. Instead, we join with all Christian thinkers who are involved in formulating, and living, transformative theologies. We are working to bring home the two-directional nature of the deep bonds between belief and action. Powerful theologies lead to powerful ministries in the church and in the world. But the feedback relationship is no less important: examining transformative ministries (and also those that fail to be transformative) helps us to understand how theologies should be extended, adapted — or radically revised.

www.transformingtheology.org/home

www.spiritualbookclub.com is an on-line global community of kindred spirits who explore spirituality through books, music, discussion, and ways to get involved in doing good things globally. It’s a spiritual home on the web.

We’ve been here since 1999, and we work to feed the spirits of those who visit this site with:
*Books that nourish the soul, give deeper insights
*Music that moves you (or that just rocks and therefore moves you)
*Discussion that makes you think about what you believe
*Links that help you get involved in cool projects all over the planet