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Transforming Leaders & Detroit Villages House Pastor Wanted

Dear EmergeDetroit and Detroit Villages friends, 

This coming Summer the Young Leaders Initiative is seeking Elder track seminarians from United Methodist seminaries who are interested in a 12 week service/learning experience with intentional Christian communities in Detroit.  Candidates should be interested in:

Fast For Freedom

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Latest Podcast: Interview with Danny Schmidt

I am sitting in North Dakota today listening to David Batstone's message on Freedom Sunday from Seoul, South Korea. As he preaches I'm reminded of the kinds of fasting God calls each of us to during Lent. A fast from injustice and indulgence that creates inequality, captivity, and death.

Stories of Our Demise/Redemption

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Latest Events: Danny Schmidt and A Cohort

This past weekend we had the opportunity to catch Danny Schmidt in concert in Ann Arbor. This singer/songwriter has a knack for writing lyrics that both engage and challenge. Of particular interest to me are Danny's lyrics that incorporate images of churches, Jesus, sin, redemption, brokenness, restoration.

Eucharist, the Poor, and our Communities

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Friends, just a couple things for us all.

Harvest Potluck and Detroit Villages

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Upcoming Events:
HAUNTED POTLUCK AND DETROIT VILLAGES MEETUP!

Friends, tomorrow night is the Jeanie Wylie Community's haunted potluck and they've graciously offered to host any and all Detroit Villagers and friends who'd like to participate in a little pumpkin pie and costume fueled goodness.

A Return

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Transforming Leaders 2010
Upcoming Events:
Detroit Villages September Potluck!

On the first cool morning in quite some time I'm reminded of the impending return to normal time here in Detroit. Summer trips have ended, some hold-outs are still galavanting, but on the whole people are returning to their lives. We know some have begun new lives, new communities, have joined new neighborhoods in the city and beyond.

I'm always excited about this time of year.

Session 4: In Kind Resources

Online Mission Intern Course 2010

GOAL

This session aims to help you reflect on the power of "In-Kind" resources for your ministry.

ENGAGE

Read Acts 2:43-47

  • What items do you own that could be used for ministry?
  • Does Jesus or the church have any claim to those things you own?
  • When have you seen people giving things to churches/ministries that really made a difference?

ASSIGNMENT

Consp!re Conference Call Tonight

Hello Detroit Villagers!

While on short notice, we wanted to open up the following opportunity for any one of you interested in taking part in a conference call for communities who receive the quarterly Consp!re magazines. This is a conversation that happens regularly to help keep that publication meeting the needs of the various intentional communities who share in it.

Please email Carl at carl@emergedetroit.org if you'd like to represent us tonight! And thanks!

What: CONSP!RE PHONE CALL

Date: Thursday, July 08, 2010

Start Time: 8:30 PM ET

End Time: 9:25 PM ET

Session 3: unChristian

Online Mission Intern Course 2010

Read excerpts from the book "unChristian" (downloadable documents are on this site)
www.unchristian.com

Listen to this podcast discussion:
Gabe Lyons and Chuck Colson

Discuss these questions on your blog:

1.Chapter One
- Do you know any “outsiders”? Would you consider them to be friends? What do you think their perceptions are of Christianity?
- Young people don’t like to join things that seem easy, mainstream, or normal. What does that mean for Christianity today? How can we help people grasp that Christianity was never meant to be safe?
- When a young Christian interacts with the world, they are much more likely to live within a truly pluralistic generation … that is, many of their friends are not likely to be Christian. What should change, if anything, in the way we prepare young Christians to live in a pluralistic, diverse world?

Session 2: In Person Resources

Online Mission Intern Course 2010

GOAL

This week we'd like each of you (as missional entrepreneurs this Summer) to practice pulling together "In-Person" resources for your ministry site.

ENGAGE

Read 1 Corinthians 12

  • What gifts have you been given?
  • What part of the body's work has fallen to you this Summer?
  • Are you happy being a foot or nose? Would you rather be a brain or elbow?

Session 1: Engaging others in the mission

Online Mission Intern Course 2010

GOAL

For our first session we want you to think about how to promote the mission of the mission intern program and of your site. In order to do that we are having you visit other non-profit and religious web sites. You may need to dig to find the mission – or you may infer it from what they choose to promote on their web site. After completing that … you will examine the mission statements from the Mission Intern program and your site. Then …. You are ready to prepare your own speech that you can use to engage others in this wonderful mission.

REMEMBER 2010 - Women + mi$$ion

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Consider

"Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do."
- Dorothy Day

Read
Luke 8:1-8

REMEMBER 2010 - Details

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Consider
Usually we hear that "The Devil is in the details." Did you know, however, that there was an earlier phrase, "Le bon Dieu est dans le detail" (the good God is in the detail) generally attributed to Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)?

Read
Exodus 35:1-21

Moses assembled all the congregation of the Israelites and said to them: These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:

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