missional life in the small(er) church
Some key posts gathered into one list. Hoping some Montreat Wee Kirk folks stop by!
- Wednesday Night Experiment (series) - initial description and follow-up reports of our experiment of pushing the Wednesday night church meeting outside the walls into the neighborhood. Some exciting results!! Continue reading about year two HERE.
- Missional Identity in the Small Church (series) - this series chronicles the visioning, communication, implementation, etc... of a missional identity at Good Shepherd. This material was compiled for a workshop I taught, but comes from an officer retreat in 2006. The initial link has links to the successive posts.
- Each One Bring One - our September 2012 outreach emphasis with a home-grown video from our drama and children's ministry
- VBS on the Road - the story of taking our Vacation Bible School outside the walls
- Searchlight-in-Training - a missional look at parenting my young daughter
- More than Cookies - narrative of two memorable days in ministry that highlight our growing missional mindset along with the mess and the glory of being a lighthouse and searchlight church
- Truth and Error (series) - study of truth and error in the local church from 2 Timothy 2
- Frost Defines Missional (part 1, part 2, part 3) - blogged through Michael Frost's presentation on missional church at the 2007 Presbyterian Global Fellowship conference
- The Talent Challenge - a real-life missional "parable of the Talents" exercise; two follow-up reports below
- Mission Benefit Concert - a $20 talent turned into a fabulous fund-raising concert for our missionaries in Spain; raised $1800!
- Family business in Nicaragua - a $20 talent sent to our missionaries in Nicaragua purchased equipment for start-up sewing classes