April 14, 15, 16
Back to the Future?
The Emerging Missional Way
see below for links to information about "The Emerging Church"
Taylor Burton-Edwards is director of Worship Resources for the Board of Discipleship and an ordained elder in The UMC. He has a long-standing interest in the Emerging Missional Way and has made presentations on it to the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Order of St. Luke.
(click on titles to download files as PowerPoint Presentations or .pdf handouts)
session one:
What Is Emerging Missional Way (PowerPoint Presentation - 4.5 MB)
What is Emerging Missional Way (.pdf of handout w/notes - 1.9 MB)
sessions two & three (combined)
Renewal: Reclaiming Our Missional Network Ecclesiology and Deconstruction: Early Methodism and Now. (PowerPoint Presentation - 6.75 MB)
Renewal: Reclaiming Our Missional Network Ecclesiology and Deconstruction: Early Methodism and Now. (.pdf of handouts w/notes - 2.9 MB)
Michael Pasquarello, an ordained elder in The UMC, teaches preaching at Asbury Theological Seminary. He describes his inspiration as John Wesley, who "was able to make the gospel so fresh, so invigorating, so inviting and compelling, by turning to the Christian past and the wisdom he had inherited."
The Rev. Melissa Rudolph
serves Christ-Ballenger Creek United Methodist Church in Frederick, Maryland. She has found that the Emerging Missional Way has brought energy and excitement to her congregation. She will share with us from her own experience in a small church setting.School again to be held at the Des Moines Marriott Downtown
Frequently Asked Questions
for more information contact here
Visit these sights:
General Board of Discipleship (rich with information and links to resources)
Churchleadership.com - article on the topic
Churchleadership.com - book review on....
The Emerging (Global) Church
Open Source Thelogy
An Interview with Robert Webber
Inside the Organic Church:
Learning from 12 Emerging Congregations
By Bob Whitesel (Abingdon Press: 2006)
