Hi Cohort Friends!

The Central Valley Emergent Cohort will meet on Wednesday, February 27 at 7:00 p.m. Once again we have the back room at Sequoia Brewing Company, 777 E. Olive in the Tower.

Some of our time will be just catching up and meeting any new people, but here's a proposed topic for conversation beyond that:

If you were going to be a part of starting up a new missional/emergent church community in the Central Valley, what would be the most important considerations? Is a focus on a particular sociological or theological niche important, and if so, what niches might interest you? What would you emphasize or de-emphasize? How might you make decisions about things like meeting space, worship style(s), missional aims, structure, etc.? What would the leadership look like or how would it be structured? What are the pros & cons of some sort of denominational or mother-church connection? What would evangelism in a non-attactional, incarnational community look like?

Some of us have already (or are now) involved in starting new communities -- what have you learned from this experience? What would you try to do in a similar way another time? What would you do (or hope would happen differently?

If you know of anyone that may be interested in this group please forward me their email and I will add them to our list. If for any reason you would like to be removed from our email list please let me know.

Hope you can join us on Feb. 27

Shalom,
Tom Cotter & Bet Hannon