Leonard Sweet - October 12

Leonard Sweet will be at Olathe Bible Church for the Ministry Resource Center Seminar sponsored by MidAmerica Nazarene University. "The three hardest words in the world to get right" will be October 12th 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The cost is $49 for the seminar, lunch and a book. You can find more information out here.

Darrell Guder at Saint Paul's

Dr. Darrell Guder will be at Saint Paul's School of Theology on Tuesday, September 26th. He will be lecturing on "Missional Theology for the Western Church after Christendom" at 11:00 a.m. and a conversation with him will follow lunch at 1:15 p.m., I believe that this is free and open to the public. For more information see this site.

The Gospel in Our Culture - October 19-21

I noticed on Doug Pagitt's blog some information about the 2006 Conference of The Gospel and Our Culture Network. Kansas City is playing host this year October 19-21 at the Radisson Hotel downtown. This is the place for more information.

September Meeting

We will be meeting on Thursday, September 21.
Time: 9:00pm till whenever
Where: Keystone Coffeehouse located in the Broadway Methodist Church at 74th and Wornall. You can enter at the door under the blue awning. Parking is on the street or in the parking lot directly across 74th.

We will jump start some conversation by talking about Walter Brueggemann’s 19 Theses that he presented at the Emergent Theological Dialogue in ’04.

Upcoming Events

Here are a couple of things coming up here in Kansas City that you might be interested in.

First Dallas Willard will be at Christ Community Church in Leawood September 30th for the True Spirituality conference. Check this out for more information.

Then Brian McLaren and Dan Kimball will be over at Church of the Resurrection for their Leadership Institute October 5-7. You can check this out for more information.

There will be 3 day ministry dialogue regarding "Missional Leaders in an Emerging Culture Conversation" at the Nazarene Theological Seminary October 24-26. For more information check this out.

Brian McLaren will be back in the area October 31 - November 1 at William Jewell College in Liberty. He will be part of their lecture series and will speak on "Faith, Culture and Higher Education" on Tuesday evening at 7:30 and he will be their chapel speaker on Wednesday Morning. Both are free and you can find information here, you need to scroll down to the second page.

If you know of anything else let me know and we'll try to get the word out.