NOTE: February 23 @ Convergence is a prayer night. March 2 will be a service
Thanks to everyone who was there on Sunday as we made a ruckus. For those of you who weren’t there, Norb announced that Corrie Block will be our new pastor, starting May 1st. The Blocks are currently missionaries in Estonia, and originally come from CLA. Some of you may have seen/heard him at classic PAOC events like the Merge and Historymaker.
Missions Oppurtunity…
For years and years Broadway has been sending a team to Camp Yukon for two weeks in the summer to help run the kids camps. In fact, many of our very own Convergers went last year. Nancy Arshak has been talking with Pastor Joel and Kory, and would like to organize a team again this year. The first thing we need to know is HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED. So, if you think there may be a POSSIBILITY that you would like to go, let me know and I will connect with the appropriate people ASAP. If you have any questions, let me know. If you’re concerned whether it will be good, anyone who has ever been will guarantee that it will be a BLAST!
- Geoff Schnitzer was back visiting a few weeks ago on a prayer night. He shared a prayer request regarding an upcoming job interview with Air Canada, and he wanted to let you all know that he got the job! So, this is passing along a BIG thank-you from Geoff to everyone who prayed for him that night!
- Jenn Miller is currently in Morocco on her missions trip with YWAM. She will then be going to Scotland for a month to do evangelism, etc. Her prayer requests: favour with the people and that her team hears from God. She’ll be back around March.
- Mark Ritchie is back in Prince Rupert for the time being, setting up a business with his dad. He plans on returning to Vancouver in late March or early April.
posted by white girl at
10:27 AM
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wooooow. corrie block! that's exciting!!! i've seen corrie at the merge and he's a cool speaker. all the best to my convergence buddies and i'll see you guys sooner than you think :)
xoxo
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Anonymous, at 12:58 PM
nice blog remodeling jamers, it's pretty.
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Anonymous, at 3:29 PM
also, THANK YOU JAMIE!!! for all your HARD work and love. Convergence would be lost without you...and thank you to the rest of the Servant team...YOU GUYS ROCK!
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Anonymous, at 3:32 PM
wow, Corrie Block. really puttin together a Broadway dream team heh? should be grood! I hope that he brings more, not that more is needed because things seemt to be doing quite well now, but more fuel and new ideas and directions to the Broadway Young Adults. Jamie, well done, you really are doing a lot for the Y.A., really adhering to what God has put before you. Quite admirable. Well Done Jamie. schweeet job.
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Anonymous, at 4:50 PM
Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm quite excited and a bit nervous about coming to Broadway. Twelve years in ministry, and this is my first paid pastoral position, can you believe it. My missionary friends are teasing me for selling out. :-) It's cool to see you have a blog up and running, I like that. Good reading: Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger. BTW, how many are we in Convergence? What do we look like? Any pics?
-Corrie
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Anonymous, at 10:16 PM
Hi! I'm Corrie's wife, Dawn. I thought I'd take this moment to add my voice to Corrie's to say that we are really excited and a bit nervous about coming to Broadway. More excited than nervous, so don't be afraid. :) This will be the first time we've officially served in a North American church, but reading through these posts and catching a bit of your flavour, I'm really looking forward to continuing on our journey together. I'm not sure how much I'll be around, but I'm hoping it will be enough. Maybe you all will hope it was less! haha
Anyway... hi! We look forward to meeting you soon!
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white girl, at 12:20 AM
to be honest - i miss pastor chad, maybe he wasn't a 'dream team' player - whatever - but at least he was a shepherd. we need a shepherd - to lead us not just someone who weilds the emergent church fluff of asking all the right questions but never giving answers to young adults needs for truth. have you ever read about the emergent church culture? - we need to be careful about this craze that is coming out of middle aged disgruntled evangelicals. you want a good read: becoming conversant with the emerging church - by d.a. carson
welcome pastor corrie - please love us, but don't get stars in your eyes about broadway - this place could chew you up as well - the mission field is an easier place to minister. your not a sell out - just be sold out to this group. jamie rocks
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Anonymous, at 11:15 AM
corrie and dawn, it's great to hear you guys are coming on board, we've heard good things. i remember you guys from historymaker this year, and i'm excited that we've snagged you for ourselves! if it's selling out to take this job, then we're glad you did =) looking forward to getting to know you.
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Anonymous, at 12:23 AM
Dear anonymous,
I think your name is a little impersonal, so I'll call you "Prophet" if you don't mind, it's more fun. I love your alliegence to Chad, and really honour that.
Thanks for engaging me in the conversation about emerging churches. I appreciate Carson's critisisms, as I can hear you do as well, but am cautious to not swallow his arguments just for the sake of being critical. He's a good evangelical theologian, and has his own prejudices. Ryan Bolger, one of the authors I mentioned, has already responded to Carson's critisisms here:
http://thebolgblog.typepad.com/thebolgblog/2005/05/d_a_carson_beco.html
It's worth the time if you enjoy the conversation. Missing this conversation would be like ignoring the early 20th Century birth of Pentecostalism. Whether we like it or not, we should engage it, that's the intent behind my recommended reading.
Prophet, I am looking forward to meeting you. :) I'll do my best to pastor you, but I fear I will not be as Chad-like as you're hoping for. If you have any further concerns, or would like to continue this conversation, I would be happy to keep listening.
Cheers,
Corrie
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Anonymous, at 10:01 AM
Prophet,
I'm sorry, the link I gave doesn't carry you all the way to the article. You'll need to go to Ryan's blog at:
http://thebolgblog.typepad.com
then you'll find "BOOKS" under "CATEGORIES" on the right side. You'll find it easily from there. Let me know your thoughts.
-Corrie
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Anonymous, at 10:16 AM
Dear pastor corrie - I apologize if in any way I seemed critical to you or the emergent church ethos - I think there needs to be a shift in how church is viewed and practiced - we need to be touching culture and useing culture to reach people but not at the expense of leaving behind the word and the clear gospel message. Obviously pastor corrie you have thought about these things and I do respect that and you. I hear some youth/ya ministers talk about emergent like they are in the game - but they have left their mind behind and just swallowed up and what emergent fathers have said and adopted without having the head space to think and process - with out thinking about the implications themselves. You must admit pastor that some emergent may be on a fine line? no?
I do think chad did a good job - but we do as well embrace the new leadership. I know you will care about our group - you will engage us - and God will do good things amoung this group. You will do fine at broadway...walk in humility amoung the older generation - respect them and envelope them as prayer partners and friends - and for us - just be yourself. I may tell you who this was on the anonymous side - but maybe not - I actually didn't put my name in - not on purpose last blog - but wrote the bolg and published it without changeing the identity. I think I'll keep the idetity for now. Maybe you should have a nick name as well - I'm prophet, Norb is preist and you...you...your the king - that's more fun - don't you say?
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