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i had some great giggles today watching these videos on 'return to church' (tip from ian at youthblog). it had me thinking of some of the tricks that we are used to get people 'in the door' and that when...
kleenex & tissues and the Holy Spirit from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo. last week i went to hang with my friends at the nashville cohort. we had our annual, 'what are you thinking about' session. one of the questions had...
chris brogan : be there before the sale : relationship in marketing & evangelism from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo. so i took in that live web event last week with chris brogan and i've been pondering on some of what...
many of you have been with me for a number of years on this blog and you know quite a bit about me. you might know that i like trips to crazy monasteries, make fun of my celebrity look alike...
i stumbled upon this article about pastor david weekley who recently came out to his congregation about his sexual reassignment past. He told them that in 1984, just nine years after undergoing extensive sex-reassignment surgeries, he was ordained by...
United Methodist Reporter & Variable Print as a Ministry Tool from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo. note: i will be open about this one, i sit on the board for the united methodist reporter communications so i'm a bit biased that...
one of my youth sent me this.. its really great when your teens send you stuff.
i'm a huge fan of ted. if i had the money i would so geek out at their conference. so it is with no real surprise that there is something shared that might in fact aid one of my passions,...
in my recent presentation at podcamp nashville on spirituality and social media i was talking specifically about podcasting when i made statement along the lines of 'sermon podcasts are lame.' i believe that statement.. really i do. i have posted...
this morning i received word that one of my dads, archie carver jr., passed away after his long battle with liver cancer. he didn't talk about his cancer battle much, but i believe this was his third onset that he...
a few weeks back i was in a conversation where we were talking about the future of the church. i made some statement, not slamming the megachurch, but being less than kind to the megachurch as the future of church....
in my on going toss out of lifting up some of the archives of this blog from similar time period over the years. i jumped in on some oovoo conversations with marketing & tech type people (pretty sure i was...
many of you, my faithful readers know that community can happen over the bits & bytes of the internet. the folks behind the disciple study series are seeking to cultivate some disciple communities that will study and grow together. they...
i ran into rudy rasmus this summer at soulfeast at lake junaluska. i wasn't a participant of soulfeast, but i got to meet him cause my people knew his people and i am just so important.. not really. he was...
our conference office sent this announcement out just last evening via our listserv.The new Directors of Children and Family Ministries and Director of Youth and Young Adults will be announced in January. Before that announcement the CCOCM Personnel Committee...
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