[Church-planters] FW: Welcome, church planters!

[Mary Ann Dimand]

Hi, I'm Mary Ann Dimand, oddly enough originally from Southern Illinois as well. Indeed, from the same town as the others, though I haven't been there in over twenty years. I'm now a United Methodist pastor (probationary) in western Wyoming. My church is well over a hundred years old, but I'm interested in church planting generally.  Two things seem to me to be a substantial obstacle starting new churches in a sophisticated, largely secular and urban setting: - consumerist expectations of what going to church is like-- it's a service provided- low tolerance of failure I'm wondering whether a paradigm of venture churching might work.... Mary Ann


Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:40:09 -0500From: boyinthebands at gmail.comTo: church-planters at unitarianuniversalist.orgSubject: [Church-planters] Welcome, church planters!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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