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10.20.05

NEW STRATEGIC ALLIANCE ANNOUNCED
to innovate a network of relationships and resources that create a movement of missional formation among leaders, local churches and training schools.
10.20.05

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Summer Leadership Institute courses commencing in 2006
10.6.05

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The Vicarious Humanity of Christ and Cultured Identity: Joy and Despair in an Age of Globalization - Part 1
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by Christian D. Kettler

My great-grandmother, Anna Prattle, arrived in Chicago from Bohemia with her named tagged to her dress. She hoped that someone would be there to meet her, for she spoke no English. But no one showed up. The encounter of cultures can be an occasion for despair, or for joy. This is all the more true for Christian theology, which both struggles to speak to the postmodern and non-western world but feels bound by its historical parochialism. more...
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The Christmas Season - A Devotional Guide
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by Gary Waller

The Christmas season begins with the celebration of Advent but doesn’t end with Christmas day, it continues for twelve more days. In the Western Church the “Twelve Days of Christmas” are the twelve days between Christmas and the beginning of the season of Epiphany that begins on January 6th. The 12 days count from December 25th until January 5th. more...
|| GENERAL
Exploring Missional and Communal Catechesis
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by Mark Priddy

Almost everyone acknowledges that the church in North America is not as it should be. There are many symptoms of this chronic trouble. They are voiced in comments such as “My children don’t go to church – where did I go wrong?”, “Why has the church lost its passion and energy for social witness?” and “How can so many people claim to be Christians but live no differently than anyone else?” more...
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Sailing The Holy Gusts Of The Spirit – Forming A Movement Of Missional Leaders
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by Alan Roxburgh

As a boy growing up in the north of England I spent hours at home sitting beside a tiny coal fireplace reading book after book after book. Reading was my escape from the pain and brokenness of my family. I escaped into stories of adventure in far off places full of peril and promise. To my parents and older siblings I was the quiet one. My mother once said: ‘What a quiet child is our Alan!’ Outside, on the streets of my Liverpool neighborhood, I was loud and aggressive, shaped by street gangs, violence and a terrible anger. more...

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