Taking it to the Streets
Posted by tom | Mar 27, 2007Participated in my first Atlantic Conference Annual Meeting/Celebration (note: this was their 50th Anniversary). What a joy to gather with brothers and sisters from the Brethren-in-Christ (BIC) at the home of Harrisburg BIC in order to learn more about how the Atlantic Conference seeks to be an expanding team of healthy and mission oriented congregations. A few highlights included:
1. traveling with my neighbors, Carl and Eunice -- Theresa's parents ;-) and delegates from their local assembly, one of the sponsors our work (Manheim BIC)
2. worshipping with so many newly met brothers and sisters in Christ from the local assembly of which we recently joined, Elizabethtown BIC
3. learning more about the work of God through Harrisburg BIC through the picture of ministry given by Cedra Washington (Pastor of Outreach), the Acts 18 challenge of Woody Dalton (Lead Pastor) for local congregations to be incarnational (i.e., to eqiup and send their members out into marketplace/tentmaking ministry in which evangelism is not an artifical encounter but God's love naturally flowing out of us), and taking part in worship led by their Gospel choir.
4. receiving affirmation in the messiness of ministry given by the Robert Gilenas, lead pastor of Colorado Community Church
5. And I must confess, seeing Questioning Evangelism, the book which I led an Adult Elective on last term, on Bishop Craig Sider's suggested books was way cool.
Friday night at Regional Conference was encouraging, wasn't it? I loved, loved the Gospel choir, and could have listened and danced with them all night! The speaker was right on, and he has a great blog over at http://www.jazztheologian.typepad.com/. It was neat to have you there - hope it gave you some things in our conference to chew on!
Posted by Amy, Mar 27 2007, 22:22