Main http://www.churchbootcamp.com/main/ Sat, 31 May 2008 13:32:39 CDT en-us Copyright 2008 Church Bootcamp A Church Planters Conference Experience http://www.churchbootcamp.com/main/a-church-planters-conference-experience/ http://www.churchbootcamp.com/main/a-church-planters-conference-experience/ Sat, 31 May 2008 13:32:39 CDT "Earlier this year I attend a conference hosted by Kaleo called, "Living at the Crossroads: Church & Mission Kairos." The content and speakers of the conference were great. However, it was the format of the conference that set it apart for all others. In most conferences you merely attend. You show up, sit down, and listen to the expert wax poetic. In between each session you trade thoughts with other attendees and begin to exsorb in the truth being exposited. Then, just as you are really beginning to soak it all up, another session begins. I've benefited somewhat from this format but always longed for more of those fruitful "in-between times." Well, this is exactly what I got at Living at the Crossroads. You don't attend. You participate. It was a meeting of minds and souls to discern what Lord is doing in our midst. The speakers engage in dialogue with all the conference participants. The group broke away into smaller groups to work through what was being presented. We then returned to share with rest of the group what we concluded. It was one long unending "in-between time" that is still challenging me today. A run of the mill conference will never satisfy me again. I've drunk from a better fountain."

- Michael Foster

 

]]> The Total Church North America Conference 2008 http://www.churchbootcamp.com/main/the-total-church-north-america-conference-2008/ http://www.churchbootcamp.com/main/the-total-church-north-america-conference-2008/ Thu, 22 May 2008 02:47:58 CDT Total church is a way of thinking about church and mission in the 21st century which sees the local Christian community as integral to Christian living and Christian mission. The Christian life is 'total church' - our identity is communal.

Why Attend? Create a community centered on the gospel, equipped to do the work of the ministry. Make your community a community of church planters. See what it means to be the church on mission through ordinary life with gospel intentionality. Dialog with missional church leaders from across the world. Learn from seasoned practitioners how to form missional communities and transition traditional churches toward mission.

 

Dates: August 12-14, 2008

Location: San Diego

The first Total Church was held in Sheffield, UK, in 2007 at the end of October, hosted by the Crowded House. The conference is named for the book, Total Church -A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community which will be released in the Fall in the US.

Archive

Looking for previous conference audio from 2006, 2007 & 2008? Visit the Past Sessions page.

 

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