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

[Aaron White]

Hi, all,

I am Aaron White, a candidate for UU ministry, and currently a ministerial
intern working outside of Austin, TX.  I am particularly interested in how
technology and media will affect new thought about church planting, as well
as the influence of the emergent movement, multi-site churches, and other
innovations on new church plants and their success.  I'm looking very
forward to the discussion.

Aaron

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Mary Ann Dimand <maryanndimand at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  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 -0500
> From: boyinthebands at gmail.com
> To: church-planters at unitarianuniversalist.org
> Subject: [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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-- 
Aaron S. White
Ministerial Intern
Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church
aaron at liveoakuu.org
512-219-9008 Ext. #15
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