Transform West Coast Gathering
TransFORM Network (http://www.transformnetwork.org) and The Parish Collective (http://www.parishcollective.org) are joining forces to host a West Coast regional gathering on missional community formation, Friday-Sunday, April 29-May 1, 2011, at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington. Launched in Fall 2009, TransFORM held its first regional gathering earlier this year in Washington, D.C., which was attended by around 250 people. Participants in …
An Interview With Doug Pagitt
Doug Pagitt and I sat down for a fun talk. I got to explore some of the background for my book. This happened just after the Transform Gathering.
Transform Round Table Episode 01
The first Transform Network Podcast is finally here. The official name is the Transform Round Table. The first dialog was on missional. This was one of the funnest things I’ve done this year and I really look forward to the next one in March. Click here to add the Podcast to your iTunes.
The TransFORM Missional Roundtable
Over the last 9 months I’ve been working with Steve Knight and so many great people in the development of the TransFORM Network. It’s a missional community formation network. It birthed out of the idea of taking the conversation to another level. As part of the networks development we’re creating a new podcast called the TransFORM Round Table. The idea …
Missional Community Formation – Part 3
This is a short paper I wrote on missional community formation for the Transform Network. I was trying to reframe the conversation around missional community. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. ———————————————————————— The Larger Framing Story: The kingdom of God What if the narrative of Scripture provides the answer to the larger framing story? It would …
Missional Community Formation – Part 2
This is a short paper I wrote on missional community formation for the Transform Network. I was trying to reframe the conversation around missional community. You can find Part 1 here. ———————————————————————— The Great Emergence Tickle also documented the idea of The Great Emergence, a process that occurs every 500 years that fundamentally shakes up the church. Tickle suggested a …
Missional Community Formation – Part 1
Many of your know that I am part of The Transform Network, a missional community formation network. This spring we’re having our first gathering on the East Coast. I’m going to be speaking at the event. You should consider coming. It’s FREE. And yes, we are hoping to have a West Coast gathering. As we were in the early stages …
TransFORM Missional Communities
About four months ago, some friend of mine got together to share the idea about starting a network around the idea of creating missional communities. It was the next logical step after cohorts. The original thought was, “What would it look like to create communities of practice, as a natural extension of the conversation.” The purpose of TransFORM is to …
