Are you thinking about planting a missional church or have you ever thought about being a part of a missional church plant at some point in the future?
As many of you know, The Renew Community is proud to be a part of a growing missional church planting network called The Ecclesia Network. Ecclesia hosts a missional church planters' training week and assessment time in Richmond, VA each May. It's held at a Richmond Hill, a monastery/retreat center overlooking the city of Richmond. You enter into the rhythms of prayer and communal meals with the community throughout the week of training. It's a fantastic experience.
I attended last year's training and found it to be the most fruitful environment – both theologically and practically – to be equipped for starting and cultivating Renew. It was a fantastic investment of my time and money.
Even if you are in the early stages of processing and pondering the possibility of being a part of a missional church plant I highly recommend this training week as well. We will be sending at least one person from Renew to this event (hopefully more!) and I
may be going down for a few days as well.
We would love for you to be
there also!
If you're interested see the PDF attachment below.
Download 2009 ecclesia church planters brochure general
Also, if you can't make the Ecclesia Church Planters' Training but you're interested in being involved in the missional church conversation, you should make plans to attend the Ecclesia National Gathering next month in Washington, DC. Eddie Gibbs, Mike Breen, Darrell Guder and Jon Tyson will be speaking. The gathering is open to any and all who are interested (click here for more information). A few of us from the area will be driving down and we'd love for you to attend as well.