A portion of one of my goals for 2007 includes: Reading books on the subject of the emerging movement within the Christian church and writing a two page summary of the book to include: summary of themes, possible applications and relevance to the United Methodist Church and possible applications and relevance to The United Methodist […]
On Saturday, I was able to take part in a mission project with my small group. At The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, one of the entry level mission opportunities is called FaithWork. It was a great experience. We arrived on Saturday morning, signed up for one of about a dozen projects that were […]
In a previous post, Embers of the Fire, I posed several questions in regards to revitalization of churches. My responses are…Do these reflections apply to your community of faith?I believe that these reflections apply to my current community of faith. At this time, the local church of which I am a part is considering ways […]
These are some reflections on the life of a denomination or individual church that initially began at a campfire on the night of November 6. I will begin with observations of a scene, pose questions related to the church and respond to these questions in a future post. When there is a fire that is […]
Different communities of Christians may consider themselves to exist in several ways. One of the characterizations might be the following: Individual faith communities are local incarnations of a global movement of disciples of Jesus Christ. A global movement of disciples of Jesus Christ is made up of local faith communities. I recognize that this is […]
For revitalization to take place within the United Methodist Church I believe that there will need to be changes that take place from top down and bottom up. I was alerted to the article “Global nature task force proposes a U.S. central conference” by RevFife via the methoblog. Some of the first paragraphs in the […]
I grew up in the Kansas West Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and am currently serving in the Kansas City area which is a part of the Kansas East Annual Conference. Both of the conferences were challenged by our Bishop Scott Jones to undertake a vision process guided by the following strategic questions […]
I am curious about the potential for partnerships between secular and sacred organizations in the emerging culture. In such partnerships, I think that the mission of each organization could be advanced and also something new created that was not there before. I recently listened to The Secret Message of Jesus as a book on CD […]
In the past few months, I have become more interested in the emerging church conversation that is taking place in various places within Christianity. I have currently been reading through a series of books written by Brian McClaren. I just finished A New Kind of Christian and am started on The Story We Find Ourselves […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 