[Church-planters] Welcome, church planters!

[Steven Rowe]

Steven Rowe, living in Hartsville SC,
my wife and I inherited a tiny tiny emerging UU congregation.
 I was around for the planting of it,
and boy do I know some of the pitfalls.....

Unlike Scott, I live in a mostly rural, heavily churched area.

steven rowe
(remembering the several hour meeting about the name)

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Scott Wells <boyinthebands at gmail.com> wrote:
> A few months ago, and again more recently, I asked my readers if there was
> interest in a church planters' mailing list. If you have received this mail,
> you have asked me to add you. If you want to be removed, please email me
> directly at boyinthebands at gmail.com.
>
> The custom when inaugurating mailing lists is for the participants to
> introduce themselves. I'll start:
>
> I'm Scott Wells, a Unitarian Universalist Christian minister living and
> working in secular nonprofit work in Washington, D.C. I've had pastorates
> here and in my native Georgia. These days, my most prominent ministry is
> writing at "Boy in the Bands" (www.boyinthebands.com.) I feel called to
> organize a ministry -- if not a conventional church -- here, but the closer
> I get to conceive this work, the harder and hazier it shape gets. I am
> looking for clarity in what a new church start looks like in a
> sophisticated, largely secular and urban setting.
>
> Yours truly -- Scott
>
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