My brain feels full today, because the past 3 days we spend at a Soularize learning party, um Conference.
Wycliffe Discovery enabled us to be there as part of our continuing personal development and lifelong education. I don't think I could describe all the ideas, experiences and challenges to our current thinking and processes we experienced there, but I will list a few highlights in this post and if you want to hear more, please feel free to ask us. The folks in attendance were quite eclectic but it was a voice new to me, Monica Coleman who challenged us to think about who was not present, and possibly why they weren't there. Rachel Held Evans gave a great talk on her new book covering the topic of "biblical womanhood". She is quite creative in her approach, and thus thought provoking! We saw an advance showing of the movie "Blue Like Jazz'" along with Q&A with Steve Taylor the director. The movie comes out next April..., and I highly recommend it.
We got to hang out with a missional community called Nieu Communities, we saw many parallels to Discovery in their ministry of mentoring and sending folks. We both expect our alumni to go and live missional lives. We also enjoyed the themes from many speakers talking about transformational spiritual practices. These ideas will surely impact our personal life, the way we structure Discovery trips and even our involvement in our local church. If you've been to a really great conference recently, I'd love to hear some of the thoughts you are thinking.
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