Resonate Photo Pool

As of today, there are 1,130 photos in the Resonate Photo Pool.  The photo-sharing community for Resonate. A place for images and media suitable for worship media and graphics.  It is a place where flickr members can share, download, enjoy, and modify photos for almost any use (just remember to respect the artist's copyright or Creative Commons license).

 

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David Fitch speaking at Resonate Echo

The video of author/blogger/theologian/church planter David Fitch speaking at The FRWY.ca for a Resonate Echo.  Thanks to Amy Panton and Jared Siebert for putting this all together.

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Faith Maps has been redesigned

Stephen Shields has redesigned and relaunched Faith Maps.  He blogs about it here.

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Saturday is Free Comic Book Day

No excuse for you not to get one.

Resonate ECHO with David Fitch

Author, church planter, and theologian David Fitch will be at FRWY.ca (a Resonate Echo - free admission) on Tuesday, May 16th to talk about the challenges of being a church planter and pastor in the cultures of post-modernity. In his book The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, And Other Modern Maladies, David uses the current critique of modernity to uncover the ways traditional evangelicalism has been captured by the forces of modernity. The modern maladies of individualism, business like efficiency, me-centered gospel, and farmed-out justice are just a few symptoms of the "giveaway." Fitch believes this captivity has not only made the church ineffectual amidst the breakdown of modernity but also allowed for its mission in Christ to be compromised in society.

How might the church "reclaim her mission in Christ" amidst these challenges? And what challenges does such a task pose for pastors and church planters? Fitch will present just a few insights from his book along with examples out of his own encounters in church planting and ministry.

He will address:

• The need to recapture community.
• The need for embodied witness.
• The need to make justice something we are.

David Fitch is the founding church planter of Life on the Vine Christian Community - an emerging church in the NW Suburbs of Chicago IL. He is affiliate professor of ministry, theology and ethics at Northern Seminary. And above all, even though by a freak of nature he was born in the US, he is a Canadian at heart having grown up in Hamilton ON. He has a terrific blog and is also a co-founder of up/rooted - a collaborative friendship of pastors engaging postmodernity in Chicago.

Resonate Echo w/ David Fitch
Tuesday, May 16 at 7:00PM
FRWY.ca (333 King Street East, Hamilton) - Get map
Free admission but bring money for some amazing fair trade coffee and snacks.

I am pretty excited about this (which is saying something as all Free Methodists have taken a vow of "somberness") as I will be there drinking some coffee and having some of the famous FRWY.ca nacho dip that night.  Even if the emerging church doesn't interest you, Fitch will.  He is a brilliant thinker not only theologically but also about culture.  I am looking forward to it.

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Keep Kim in Canada :: Update

Jamie has been cool enough to post an update to the Keep Kim in Canada campaign.  They are half-way to their goal (actually it is more the Government of Canada's goal) of $2000 for the price of Kim applying for permenant resident of Canada.   Thanks to everyone who has given already and if you haven't given anything yet and want to, head to Jamie and Kim's weblog for more information on how to give.

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