Annual conference was great and now more work…

Ξ June 15th, 2007 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Cultural Architect Stuff, general life stuff |

Well, annual conference went well, and we finally got all the elections of General and Jurisdictional Conferences taken care of. A friend of Th3 Waters Sean went to the conference and was amazed at how many people made up the UMC just in the KY conference, (there were probably around 1,000 people representing each church/charge in the KY UMC) It really is a great way to see the connection of the UMC in a very real way. And I must admit, that I loved getting to see and visiting with friends there. It is a great understanding of conferencing in it’s real sense!

Well, I am back hard at work, and I am attending a NASCAR Busch series Race (first one ever) tomorrow, so I will be sure to take lots of pictures and put them on Flickr…so be looking for them.

one of the things I did this week was present a small discussion on what emergent/emerging/missional church and what is it’s implications for the UMC and especially the UMC of KY.

While there I listened over and over again to older black men and women taking about how bad the need is for young black men for preachers…and how it is vitally important to have stong male role models as preachers in the black churches so they can become a role model for younger black men to grow up and be preachers….well, granted I have no ideas about the black culture in the US here, but I wonder how much postmodernity and emerging ideals are affecting the black young culture? (and for that matter, Hispanic, Latino, and Mexican cultures as well)

anyone know of anyone’s work of the Emerging church with-in other cultures?