If you’re ready for more, this is the place. Below are some of our podcasts and links to articles or videos that we’ve found helpful. It should keep you busy for a while. But we’ll also be adding more as we go along.
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Branch Podcasts
The first in a series of updates on Sunday mornings: click here
The second in a series of updates on Sunday mornings: click here
The first in a series we did introducing mission circles (missional communities): click here
The second in a series we did introducing mission circles (missional communities): click here
The third and final message in a series we did introducing mission circles: click here
Other Communities We’re Watching
3DM – weare3dm.com
Neiu Communities – www.nieucommunities.org
Trinity Grace Church, NY – trinitygracechurch.com
Church of the Saviour, D.C. – www.inwardoutward.org
Reading List
Michael Frost: Re-Jesus, The Shaping of Things to Come, Leap of Faith, Exiles
Alan Hircsh: The Permanent Revolution, Leap of Faith, Forgotten Ways, On the Verge
Lisa Sharon Harper: Left, Right & Christ
Karen Wilk: Don’t Invite Them to Church
David Fitch: The Great Giveaway
Mike Breen: Building a Discipling Culture
Links
– 3DM – http://www.weare3dm.com/pages/page.asp?page_id=65395 – Visit here to learn a bit about some of the roots of Missional Communities, originally emerging in the UK.
– Listen to Alan Hirsch as he explores what community could look like when it is rooted in mission. Might this be what our community — our lives — would look like in a mission circle?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETN67tbrvX4&feature=related
– Being a part of a MC means re-imagining your every day life and experiences. Here are 10 Simple Ways to be a person sent into the world by God to bring hope, healing and love.
http://www.vergenetwork.org/2011/10/11/10-simple-ways-to-be-missional-in-your-city-part-1/
– Here, Jo Saxton with 3DM answers some questions about the risk and adventure required to live missionally, and what it takes to follow Christ in this extreme way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKFZKzEi-5A