This is a notification to all current members of the Presbymergent Coordinating Group that our covenantal relationship has been fulfilled. We gathered in Louisville, Kentucky in mid-February and set to forming a permanent and lasting relationship. This relationship began sometime ago as an idea and has developed into a conversation. This conversation has touched, refreshed, challenged, and inspired many that have found themselves in a situation of want and hunger to live into the collective call of being a reformed body that is always reforming.
During the February gathering we developed 5 PODS to which we have committed our time and energy. These PODS are 1) National/Regional Cohorts to which the Presbymergent conversation seeks to move into face to face small group gatherings across the denominational landscape. 2) Creative Guilds that seek to offer space to creatively work with Liturgy that moves and shapes and speaks to this emerging vision of Presbymergent. 3) eVokation, a movable event that seeks to awaken “the sleeping creative geniuses” in our midst and live into the call to be the church. 4) NCD identification/support/fundraising that seeks to develop relationships, resources, and faith communities that waif the scent of Presbymergent as we walk along side each other in witnessing to the life present in the PC(USA). 5) Organ(ic)izing Group, which is responsible for forming the new Coordinating Group and working to formally organize Presbymergent into a non-profit group.
Presbymergent is seeking members for a new Coordinating Group [CG] and is seeking your involvement. We are asking that you prayerfully consider officially joining the conversation by intentionally joining the Presbymergent CG.
We ask that your intentional involvement with the Presbymergent conversation include physical presence in your local Presbymergent Cohort as it gathers and seeks to understand God’s call on our lives.
Please attend the local cohort.
We ask that your intentional involvement with the Presbymergent conversation include participation of one of the above PODS that Presbymergent is working towards this year.
Please participate in the work of Presbymergent.
We ask that your intentional involvement with the Presbymergent conversation include attendance of the annual CG gathering to be held February 9-11, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Please attend the annual CG gathering.
Becoming a member of the Presbymergent CG is not contingent upon completion of any or all of the above bolded statements. We seek only your intentional participation in the Presbymergent community, with the bold statements to be used as a guide to intentional participation.
If you are interested in participating in the Presbymergent CG please email us at [presbymergent@gmail.com] with your desire of participation and what, how, or where you would like to participate. There is no other criterion to membership other than a willingness to gather and converse.
The new Presbymergent CG will be announced around Easter 2009.
Who’s working on the guilds? I want to be part of a Liturgy Pod. (I don’t believe I’ve ever put those two words together in a sentence before. Interesting…)
Nanette — I think David Parker is heading up the guilds, although they’re now calling themselves the “Creative Shindig.” I think Scott Kinder-Pyle and Landon Whitsitt are also in that Pod.
As far as a Liturgy Pod goes, hold onto that thought, and as soon as we get the new CG launched in the coming weeks there will be a space for “new pods” to self-organize. Would you be willing to head that project up?