Back to the Future
From time to time I want to highlight some friends of mine and their ministries. I do this because I really think a lot of what they have going on and how the Lord is using them. Some of my great friends are the guys at MountainLake Church and Churchplanters.com. I try to go to their conference each year. These guys know about church planting. Here is a blog post from Upstream that we did recently about our pre-conference session this coming February. I hope to see you at the conference.
Last year, the Upstream Collective did a breakout session at the churchplanters.com conference. Each year, church planters from across the country gather in Atlanta for a few days at Mountain Lake church. The churchplanters.com conference is the forum for new church planters to share best practices, personal stories, and vital resources.
This years theme, Velocity, is about movement and timing. Upstream is partnering with Alan Hirsch to do a Pre-Conference Session about ministry in post-Christian contexts. This Pre-Conference track will be called:
Back to the Future: Lessons from Post-Christian Cultures
The future is already happening. Alan Hirsch, Larry McCrary, and Caleb Crider bring lessons from Europe and Australia to the North American Church. This session will focus on some of the lessons this team has learned from being engaged globally and how your church can engage with this global movement called the church.
Alan Hirsch is a brilliant thinker and speaker, and the author of ReJesus and The Shaping of Things to Come. Larry McCrary and Caleb Crider are co-founders of the Upstream Collective. Larry currently lives in Germany and Caleb was a church planter in Barcelona and is now part of church planting in Portland, Oregon.
The conference is February 22-23 at Mountain Lake Church in Cumming (Atlanta), Georgia. The conference costs $99 (earlybird special through 11/30) and Pre-Conference Sessions are $49.
For more information, visit churchplanters.com.
I hope you all will join us at the pre-conference session.
See you there!
