How can I learn more?

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.

What should I do?

Questions & Answers

Click here to get your burning questions answered!

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