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Online Mission Intern Course 2010

GOAL

This session aims to help you reflect on the power of "In-Kind" resources for your ministry.

ENGAGE

Read Acts 2:43-47

• What items do you own that could be used for ministry?
• Does Jesus or the church have any claim to those things you own?
• When have you seen people giving things to churches/ministries that really made a difference?

ASSIGNMENT

Online Mission Intern Course 2010

Read excerpts from the book "unChristian" (downloadable documents are on this site)
www.unchristian.com

Listen to this podcast discussion:
Gabe Lyons and Chuck Colson

Discuss these questions on your blog:

1.Chapter One
- Do you know any “outsiders”? Would you consider them to be friends? What do you think their perceptions are of Christianity?
- Young people don’t like to join things that seem easy, mainstream, or normal. What does that mean for Christianity today? How can we help people grasp that Christianity was never meant to be safe?
- When a young Christian interacts with the world, they are much more likely to live within a truly pluralistic generation … that is, many of their friends are not likely to be Christian. What should change, if anything, in the way we prepare young Christians to live in a pluralistic, diverse world?

Online Mission Intern Course 2010

GOAL

For our first session we want you to think about how to promote the mission of the mission intern program and of your site. In order to do that we are having you visit other non-profit and religious web sites. You may need to dig to find the mission – or you may infer it from what they choose to promote on their web site. After completing that … you will examine the mission statements from the Mission Intern program and your site. Then …. You are ready to prepare your own speech that you can use to engage others in this wonderful mission.

Consider
Usually we hear that "The Devil is in the details." Did you know, however, that there was an earlier phrase, "Le bon Dieu est dans le detail" (the good God is in the detail) generally attributed to Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)?

Read
Exodus 35:1-21

Moses assembled all the congregation of the Israelites and said to them: These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:

Detroit Villages Page

Detroit Villages

Hello Everyone. I'm sitting in the upstairs at Cass Community looking out at a sunny 60 degree day. This is just what the doctor order to chase away the winter blues. Thanks be to God! I hope this message finds you well. Special thanks to everyone who made it out to the last Detroit Villages. We had a wonderful turn out and a great conversation.

Latest Blogs & Podcasts:
Trey Hall on Urban Village Church, Chicago
Upcoming Events:
Empty Bowls Soup Supper benefit for the NOAH Project

Hello emergedetroit friends! This is just a quick note to remind everyone that this Saturday will be our January gathering for the Detroit Villages and anyone interested in intentional Christian community living. Come meet those living in community in the City of Detroit, share in some potluck goodness, and take time to talk about and consider how God may be calling you into more intentional forms of Christian community! We'll be gathering at a new location this week, just down the street from the BBQs with the Homeless area. So join us at Cass Community UMC this Saturday at 6pm!

From time to time we send along pieces that we're using throughout the emergedetroit network for scriptural discernment, study, and as starting points for our conversations. Below is one on the notion of "Covenant" that our Detroit Villages will be using as they seek to build up covenants together and within their various communities.

We hope it might be helpful for you too.

Peace,
Carl

COVENANT
A scriptural reflection

Genesis 9:8-17

Latest Blogs & Podcasts:
Jim Perkinson with the Detroit Villagers
Upcoming Events:
Poletown Lives! Documentary Screening at the Jeanie Wylie Community