Customized Church Plant Training

Posted on November 12, 2009

Last night we met up with the co-planters Paul and Jason, and their families for pub food, fellowship and Part I of the church plant training. Today is part II of the customized church planting training I am doing with the Watershed Church team in Kansas City. These guys are great. They have a real passion for their city and are prayerwalking several miles of thier target area over several months by prayer walking together twice a week! I’m confident the Lord is going to use these guys to promote the gospel in this area.

Here’s what we are covering:

1 – Cultural exegesis & Pockets of People

2- Gospel-centered Pastoral Leadership

3 – Developing a Missional Core Team

4 – Cultivating and Multiplying Missional Communities

Thinking Well About your City

Posted on November 11, 2009

Eric Swanson is speaking on cities this morning. Drawing from Kevin Lynch’s Image of the City, he avers that we should understand contours of our cities in order to renew it.  Five areas to fill in.

  1. Paths – streets, walkways, transport
  2. Edges – boundaries that shape the city landscape
  3. Districts – neighborhoods
  4. Nodes – gathering points in the city
  5. Landmarks – clearly marked areas

Do you know your city? Do you know how to engage the nodes and districts in order to renew it. Or are we haphazzardly on mission? How can we make a sustained social and cultural impact in our cities?

Check out Kevin Cawley’s talk right now for more nuts and bolts on this topic.