Updated: 5:45 p.m. - thanks to Larry for pointing out that I neglected to tell you what time we're gathering. So, join us at 9:00 p.m.
It's a little late, but as the saying goes...
Alan Roxburgh gets into Kansas City this afternoon. He will be spending the next couple of days with us discussing issues related to Jacob's Well and also the Allelon Initiative. I have posted about the development of a new missional order created to foster environments that reimagine theological education and training for men and women wishing to respond to the missional environment of the twenty-first century.
Tonight the Kansas City Emergent Cohort will be hosting Alan at
McCoy's Public House (where my friend Keith Thompson is the brewmaster) in the heart of Westport where he will spend a little less than an hour discussing this subject. As you can see from the photo, the environment is great and while we might be a bit crowded, the more the merrier. The food is really good, too, so if you haven't eaten dinner, plan on grabbing some good food.
By the way, I have just finished reading Alan's manuscript for the new book he has written about leadership in transition and how we move in new ways to respond to the challenges before us. I believe it is going to be called,
Leadership in a Time of Change, but don't quote me on that. The publisher is Church Innovations, out of St. Paul, Minnesota. Here is the blurb I wrote for the back of it:
"This is more than a book, it is a manifesto, a proposal for a new way of imagining a common life together as the pilgrim people of God seeking to fulfill God's purposes for the world in our time. Roxburgh's call for a new kind of space that is simultaneously occupied by those in traditional church organizations ("liminals") and by those who are out exploring new ways of believing and belonging ("emergents") is desperately needed. Moreover his exploration of new modes and metaphors for leadership and organizational structures goes a long way in helping fund our collective imagination so that we might respond to the opportunities and challenges we are presented with in fresh and dynamic ways."
The book is divided into two sections, like I mention in the blurb, and while the whole thing is great, it is the second half (the last three chapters) where everything comes together and Alan pushes all the right buttons in proposing a way forward. Anyway, I would love for anyone interested in this issue to join us tonight, professional clergy and laity alike (hate the distinction). We will meet in the infamous smoking room, but don't let that deter you. I have asked that while Alan speaks all refrain from lighting up their stogies and pipes. Besides having enough sinus problems to kill an elephant, I am fighting a cold and the thought of being stuck in a room full of cigar smoke sends me into convulsions. Once Alan is done, we can spread out and those so inclined can fire up.
Hope to see you.
P.S. If you show up, Susan Cox-Johnson, I promise I'll bring your cool black leather zipped Bible that I discovered in our lost and found bin yesterday.
Updated: 5:45 p.m. - thanks to Larry for pointing out that I neglected to tell you what time we're gathering. So, join us at 9:00 p.m.
It's a little late, but as the saying goes...
Alan Roxburgh gets into Kansas City this afternoon. He will be spending the next couple of days with us discussing issues related to Jacob's Well and also the Allelon Initiative. I have posted about the development of a new missional order created to foster environments that reimagine theological education and training for men and women wishing to respond to the missional environment of the twenty-first century.
Tonight the Kansas City Emergent Cohort will be hosting Alan at McCoy's Public House (where my friend Keith Thompson is the brewmaster) in the heart of Westport where he will spend a little less than an hour discussing this subject. As you can see from the photo, the environment is great and while we might be a bit crowded, the more the merrier. The food is really good, too, so if you haven't eaten dinner, plan on grabbing some good food.
By the way, I have just finished reading Alan's manuscript for the new book he has written about leadership in transition and how we move in new ways to respond to the challenges before us. I believe it is going to be called, Leadership in a Time of Change, but don't quote me on that. The publisher is Church Innovations, out of St. Paul, Minnesota. Here is the blurb I wrote for the back of it:
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