Proposal part 3

VIP PROPOSAL COMPONENTS
ANE Missional Studies Group

F) Resources

Book lists:
1. Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives, Leonard Sweet and Associates, $14
2. A New Kind of Christian:, Brian McLaren, $15
3. Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures Eddie Gibbs. $14
4. The Shaping of Things to Come… Innovation & Mission for the 21st Century
Church, Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch, $14
5. Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of Church in North America. Darrell L. Guder, Lois Barrett, $18
6. A Generous Orthodoxy, Brian D. McLaren, $14
7. Growing your Church from the Outside in: Understanding the Unchurched & How to Reach Them, George Barna, $12
8. Shaped by God’s Heart: The Passion and Practices of Missional Churches, Milfred Minatrea, $17
9. The Missional Leader, Alan Roxburgh, Fred Romonuk, $18
10. Stumbling in the Light: New Testament Images of a Changing Church, Robert Kysar, $11
11. Reclaiming God’s Original Intent for the Church, Larry Crabb, $14
12. Blue like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, Donald Miller, $11
13. Out of the Question…..Into the Mystery: Getting Lost in God Life Relationship, Leonard Sweet, $14
14. A Church for the 21st Century, Leith Anderson, $20
15. Do They Run When They See You Coming: Reaching out to Unchurched Teenagers, Jonathan R. McKee, $13
16. Becoming A Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels & Mark Mittelberg, $15
17. Building A Contagious Church, Bill Hybels & Mark Mittenberg, $16

1. The Emerging Church" by Dan Kimball, Zondervan, March 2003 ISBN:
0310245648
2. "Doing Church As A Team" by Wayne Cordeiro, Regal Books, 2001, ISBN:
0830726527
3. "The Church On The Other Side" by Brian McLaren, Zondervan, 2000, ISBN:
0310237076
4. "The Prevailing Church" by Randy Pope, Moody Press, 2002, ISBN: 0802427413
5. "The Equipping Church" by Sue Mallory, Zondervan, 2001, ISBN: 0310240670
6. "The End Of The World...As We Know It" by Chuck Smith Jr., Waterbrook Press,
2001, ISBN: 1578564026
7. "In The Name Of Jesus" by Henri Nouwen, Crossroad Publishing, 1989, ISBN: 0824512596
8. Treasure in Clay Jars, edited by Lois Barrett, Eerdmans, 2004

Total Cost = $250 +


VIP PROPOSAL COMPONENTS
ANE Missional Studies Group

G) Immersion Retreat/Travel

1. Our destination. - We have decided upon multiple destinations for reasons described below. We will be making a tour of several churches at the forefront of the “missional church” movement.

2. Itinerary/Schedule - May 7 Fly from Philadelphia to Detroit MI. Travel by rental van to
Mars Hill Church, near Grand Rapids MI for an evening worship service.

May 8 Meet with Pastor Rob Bell and/or key staff for time of interview/discussion/tour, etc.
May 9 Fly from Detroit to Los Angeles, CA
(May 9 or 10) Travel by rental van to Mosaic church/offices to meet with
Pastor Erwin McManus and/or key leadership for time of interview/discussion/tour, attend worship if possible. The other day will be used for sightseeing and other team building activities.
May 11 Fly from Los Angeles, CA to Honolulu, HI
May 11, 12, 13 or 14 Travel by rental van to New Hope Church to meet with
Pastor Wayne Cordeiro and/or key staff, for time of interview/discussion/tour
attend anything available at the church.
May 11, 12, 13 or 14 Travel by air to Kauai to meet with Pastor Rick Bundschuh and/or key staff at Kauai Christian Fellowship, for time of interview/discussion/tour attend anything available at the church. Pastor Rick is a personal friend of cohort member Dave Weiss. Rick is a widely published author and pastor a very missional church that is closer in size to most of our local
congregations at around 300 members.

May 14-15 Fly from Honolulu, HI to Philadelphia, PA arriving home around 6:15
a.m.

3. Team building activities will include sight seeing in some of the most beautiful places
on earth, finding something really nice for our wives to make up for taking this trip without them and some members may surf.

4. Individual Roles and Responsibilities
Rob Eshelman arranges travel/lodging/ground transportation
Dave Weiss arranges meetings at the various churches
Tim Doering will handle spiritual formation
Galen Hackman will facilitate meetings
Jay McCumber driver
Dave Ulm will be Navigator and recorder

5. Why did we pick this trip for our immersion activity? You might think it’s because
everyone wants to suffer for the Lord in Hawaii, and while there is no denying that this will be a great trip, there is much more to it than that. Our key question revolves around becoming missional leaders leading missional congregations. The churches that we will be touring are led by men who are on the forefront of the missional movement. Our hope is that through this tour, visiting these churches and meeting with these leaders, we will learn principles and ideas that we can adapt to our own ministry contexts. We will see churches in a variety of contexts from urban, postmodern/emergent megachurches, to a medium sized semirural church. These churches minister to variety of cultures. What the churches all have in common is that they are all having a profound impact on their communities.
A word on the lateness of our immersion retreat. We realize that the program indicates that we should be doing this activity earlier in our time together. This was an impossibility for a number of reasons, one cohort member will be on sabbatical, one will be leading a tour to the holy land, our bivocational member is unable to secure the time off before this time due to a major conference for his place of employment, and this time seems to work better for some of the people we will be visiting. Our intent is to meet starting in January of 2006 and begin with the study of some of the books written by the pastors we will be visiting so that when it is time for our visit we will be a better informed cohort. This will make for a better immersion retreat all the way around.