The Emerging Chruch Roundtable went really well. We had 60 people turn up, which was more than expected. I drove to Paris with Samuel (my 12 year old son) and Linnea(visual artist) and Kim (dancer and official driver - she drove us all the way home at 170kmh. - well done!)
Matt Glock of International Teams did a great job of pulling the event together, and DAWN Ministries, of which I am an associate, gave the necessary funds to make it happen. Johnathon Finlay, who studied at Fuller Seminary the same time I did, opened up The OIKOS House community to let us chill and hang and talk and WiFi on Wednesday. He has some good photos at his blog site and is a Mac man like myself.
Temoins is a ministry that has been doing great stuff since the 1970's, with both Catholic, Evangelical and Reformed. Jean (pictured), who is 71 years old, spoke to us about their ministry and vision. This guy is totally cool and totally gets it. Their publication has just stopped and they will be switching to a web presence and in multiple languages.They have asked us to help link them in with the global movement and help with resources for their new website which should go up in a few weeks.
Les PassagersThis couple were also great. They lead a surfing ministry, a band, and are making a new way for church in France, which is not an easy task. Another group, Mission Radicale, is a youth ministry that does camps and training. They will be starting a new web site soon called PHROG. Look out for them.
Other ministries were represented, including Chris from Skatechurch in Santa Cruz and the ministries in England, connected to Jonny Baker, which shall not be mentioned here.
We witnessed a passionate discussion on Taize, which is still a little controversial for some of the French.
Pray for France, that the new innovations will receive favor and not condemnation, and that there will be unity for the French church to move forward and offer its gift to the nations.
A much better report than mine, and with more photos and links is from Al Feria and check out the photos from Jonathon.
