Tomorrow the Renew launch team leaves for Annapolis, MD to spend the weekend together. We're heading to an Ecclesia Network sponsored retreat to come together to learn, listen and hang out with three other church plants in the mid-Atlantic region.
Chris Backert, Ecclesia director, saw that there are four Ecclesia churches starting around the same time in early to mid 2009 and began wondering if maybe these four churches and their launch teams should spend time together around the idea of planting missional churches a joint-effort retreat before we have officially launched. After a few months of planning, we're excited to come together this weekend.
The pastors of these missional church plants will be presenting to the large group, but then we will have breakout sessions led by other seasoned Ecclesia pastors from around the country. Todd, Gary, Brent, and J.R. Woodward are just a few of friends who will be there to teach and learn with us. I can't wait to introduce to our launch team. I'm excited to teach - but more importantly, learn - with these four launch teams and their pastors.
It should be a great weekend to bond more as a launch team (and I hear Annapolis is a pretty sweet city), to mingle with other launch teams/missional church plants within Ecclesia and to learn about how to be more effective in missional incarnational living in our context.
I'm pumped!
I want to come!
Posted by: john chandler | October 03, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Looking forward to being there with you and your team!
What are you teaching?
Posted by: brent | October 03, 2008 at 10:58 AM