Category: Church

Scott McKnight has been really energized in putting up loads of “POST” posts … which are helpful. Somehow, I find these posts affirming and beams me up … beyond mere polarities or misunderstandings set by others or even myself. A Post on “post-” in the Emerging conversation yes … it’s not about being “anti” and…

one thing I like about Dan Kimball is that he’s not here to give us a bag of tricks in his sessions so we can go back and say “Wah! Lah! kazoom … let there be creative worship!”. If that’s what we got from him sessions (i.e. just tricks and techniques) then I think we…

In many ways I suspect that most of the participants would find Dan Kimball’s session on “Postmodernism: how it impacts youth ministry and youth leaders” easier to follow. 🙂 perhaps it’s the way we are educated most of us find dealing with more “abstract concepts” harder to digest, we tend to prefer the concrete and…

I found Tony’s starting point to invite us to think about our current 21st century context helpful during the Youth Ministry in a Globalized world talk. Globalization is a big word but with some unpacking and what he terms as a more sophisticated (for me more indepth) view of it we also see the flip…

technically this was not a “Emergent Conference” , it was promoted as “Postmodern Youth Ministry Conference” organized by the Board of Youth Ministry, Chinese Annual Conference. We met gathered at the Bukit Panjang Methodist Church which had an interesting neighbor the Salvation Army .. cool building next door that looks like a ship! It was…

*Note: sorry for the delayed report and reflection* In the last Emergent Malaysia “Open” Meeting we decided to use the issue of “2nd Generation Christians” as a starting point for discussion. This matter was raised in one of our threads in the Yahoogroup. So, I pulled out some ideas from this paragraph I found to…

I’m very thankful that the Emergent Malaysia “Open” Meeting went well with its load of surprises here and there with lots of food for thought as well as areas that causes me to think deeper (more on this later) 🙂 I’m amazed that this is actually our fourth time we’ve organized this kind of meeting….

Special Thanks to Rev. Poh and those at the Board of Youth Ministry Chinese Annual Conference (The Methodist Church in Singapore) for making this event possible. Date: 7-8 July (Thurs- Fri), 2005 (please contact Rev Poh –> heowlee.poh@methodist.org.sg for more info) Tony Jones (author of Postmodern Youth Ministry) and Dan Kimball (author of the Emerging…

To any one interested, we’re organizing a simple dinner and conversation at the Father’s House (BLC). Date: 25 June 2005, Saturday Time: 6.30pm (please contact me if you are interested to come) Here’s what’s up: apart from food and the infomal stuff, we hope to intentionally hear the stories of a couple of “2nd Generation”…

Emergent Church: Filled with creative, energetic potential I hope the title won’t confuse things even more because I’m finding it now more useful to not use “emerging church” and “emergent” interchangably though there’s an intimate connection I do feel a distinction will be helpful. Having said that, I found many insights, cautions, encouragements, and guidance…