PMC Cluster 1

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Welcome to the new PMC blog!

Hi everyone! This will be the place where we post the latest updates and news for the 2006 PMC cluster. All participants are encouraged to join and post questions and comments, or share information and frustrations. We'll continue to send updates via e-mail, but we hope that this blog will become a great source of discussion about the Mission-Shaped Church and our place in that journey.

posted by autumnc at 10:53 AM

3 Comments:

  • Thanks to Autumn for setting up this blog for PMC.

    I am going to post some articles that address the theme of "missional church" since it does take some time with this concept to really internalize it.

    The first was written 5 years ago by Tim Keller. It is not light reading, but very insightful. It is only 3 pages and is very challenging to our assumptions.

    You can find it at http://www.redeemer2.com/resources/papers/missional.pdf This is part of the Presbyterian Global Fellowship blog which is posting a number of missional church items at http://pgf.typepad.com/

    By Blogger David Dawson, at 10:58 PM  

  • George Hunsberger is a Presbyterian teaching at Western Seminary in Holland Michigan. He has been a major contributor to the missional church conversations. An interview with him entitlee, "Everything You Wanted to Know about Missional (But Didn't Know to Ask)" is
    found at:
    http://www.pfrenewal.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=257

    By Blogger David Dawson, at 8:50 AM  

  • Here is the information from Gary Angleberger.

    The Team Building experience consisted of the following:
    1) Brief introduction of Team Members and what they did on the Team and also to share things they had learned. The leaders explained the purpose of the evening.
    2) Dwelling in the Word that asked the Steering Team members to imagine themselves one of the pairs that Jesus was sending out and to talk about what Jesus asked the pair to do and also what you would say to the other member of the team when you first got together.
    3) The Steering Team members were asked to draw a “life-line” that reflected the important things that had happened in their lives from childhood to present and to indicate by a line the “ups and downs” of their spiritual life and how they thought God was at work in their lives. Individuals share their life-lines with the group. (This exercise took an hour; there was a break after drawing the time-lines)
    4) The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (book) were reviewed and discussed, eg. Lack of trust; fear of conflict; lack of commitment, etc.
    5) The leaders reviewed what remained to be done by the Steering Team before the May Cluster Meeting\
    6) Group norms were discussed and written down
    7) Adjourned

    By Anonymous David Dawson, at 9:18 PM  

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