BAY AREA MOMENTUM

Bay Area Momentum 2012
Friday, October 5th and Saturday, October 6th
Pleasant Hill, CA

With Ross Rhode (Viral Jesus); Felicity Dale (The Rabbit and the Elephant); Keith Giles (This Is My Body:Ecclesia as God Intended); Ken Eastburn (House2House Ministries);
Linda Bergquist (Church Turned Inside Out); Hermie Smit (Church Planting Team Leader with City Team, San Jose); Bill Hoffman (Bay Area Organic Church Planter); Walt and Marci Pelot; (Worship Leaders).


What is Momentum?
Momentum is like no other conference you've attended before. We've uniquely designed this event to maximize input from all participants and facilitate discussion in both large and small group formats.

Our facilitators will briefly share insights on critical topics for about 30 minutes, and then participants will share their perspectives and ask questions within their small group.

Each small group will have their own organic church coach who will work with you throughout the event and will continue to be available after the conference to answer questions, provide support and help with the development and growth of your organic church.

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THE PITFALLS OF ORGANIC CHURCH [PART 6]

Rotate Locations Early and Often.

For the first 4 years of our house church life, our family hosted every meeting together. That’s twice a week for four years! Today we only host twice a month (on Sundays) and other families take turns hosting in their homes the other weekends.

The reason we decided to rotate our meetings wasn’t because we felt burnt out, however. Not at all. In fact, we really love hosting the house church in our home and it’s very convenient for the kids on our street to join us on those Sundays, which makes it extra special for us. So, why did we decide to rotate our Sunday morning meetings? Well, it all started with a trip to Alaska. At least, an imaginary one.

As I’ve already mentioned, our house church group has been quite large for some time now. Over the last few years I’ve been pretty vocal about the fact that our group was too big and I really felt that there were plenty of mature people in our group who were more than capable of hosting and even leading a house church group in their own home. However, after a series of conversations and meetings with different people, what I learned was that none of those people saw themselves as ready, equipped or capable of doing this.

My epiphany came one evening when one of our brothers in the group asked everyone else this question: “If Keith and Wendy suddenly moved to Alaska next month, how many of you would even continue to meet together as a church every week?” To my surprise, and heartbreak, no one said that they would continue to meet together without our direct leadership in the group.

I think it was at this time that I recalled the words of wisdom shared by my friend Alan Knox who said that any church that cannot continue to function without the direct leadership of the leader isn’t a church under the headship of Christ. (Or something like that. I share this exact quote in my book, “This Is My Body: Ekklesia as God Intended”).

So, right then and there Wendy and I knew that we had failed to make disciples of the people in our house church. We wanted them to understand that they were all following Jesus – not us - and that He had equipped all of them to be the Church, and to be practicing members of the priesthood of Christ. That’s when we started asking everyone in the group to step up and to start taking some of the responsibilities away from us and to start owning the group themselves. Sharing the weekly hosting duties was just one of the things we started to intentionally give away to the group. We also started not showing up to these meetings at all on occasion to underscore the reality that they could be the Church without any help from us at all.

The good news is that, about a year later, we asked some of these same people that question again about our mythical trip to Alaska and every one of them said that they would most definitely continue to meet with the house church family even if we were not there. I have to believe that hosting the house church meetings in different people’s homes, and allowing everyone to experience the meeting apart from us made a difference. People got to see that there was nothing especially holy about our den, or about us as leaders, and that they were all called by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to be the Body of Christ no matter where they gathered or who was in the room – or not.

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JOIN US FOR MOMENTUM 2012
Friday, March 30 & Saturday, March 31
Walnut, California
Neil Cole * Ross Rohde * Keith Giles * Scott Underwood
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AN ORGANIC CONFERENCE FOR CHURCH PLANTERS

Momentum West Coast 2012: Organic Church Conference
Unleashing Your Missional Potential
March 30-31, 2012 ▪ Southlands Christian School ▪ Walnut, CA

PURPOSE
To train, equip and send out mission-oriented disciples of Christ to plant organic churches in the mission fields where God has placed you (neighborhoods, workplaces, and families).

EVENT
Attend Momentum West Coast to obtain tools, insights and resources to plant an organic church in your own home or community.

At Momentum West Cost you'll spend a day and a half learning, practicing, and discussing issues critical to making an impact in the mission field where God has placed you.

Obtain practical training, tools, techniques, and support for planting and growing
your own organic church from leaders in the field with decades of experience.

Meet your personal organic church coach who will continue to provide insight and support beyond the conference.

Interact with other organic church practitioners to discuss challenges, solutions, and new ideas for planting and growing the Body of Christ.

FORMAT
Momentum is like no other conference you've attended before. We've uniquely designed this event to maximize input from all participants and facilitate discussion in both large and small group formats.

Our facilitators will briefly share insights on critical topics for about 30 minutes, and then participants will share their perspectives and ask questions within their small group.

Each small group will have their own organic church coach who will work with you throughout the event and will continue to be available after the conference to answer questions, provide support and help with the development and growth of your organic church.

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, March 30, 4:30pm – 9:15pm
Saturday, March 31, 8:00am – 6:00pm

LOCATION
Momentum West Coast 2012 will take place at
Southlands Christian School
1920 S. Brea Canyon Cutoff Rd.
Walnut, CA 91789

FACILITATORS
Neil Cole (Organic Church)
Ken Eastburn (House2House)
Keith Giles (This Is My Body:Ekklesia as God Intended)
Bob Sears (The Well OC)
Bill Faris (Homegrown)
Joe Chebat (The Well OC)
Jeanne O'Hair (The Well OC)

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THIS SATURDAY: STREAMING HOUSE2HOUSE CONFERENCE

Come join us this Saturday at Fuller Seminary in Irvine as we gather to watch (via Skype) the Saturday main sessions from Momentum, the House2House Conference.

Here's the schedule. Times are converted to PST.

Saturday Sept 3rd

LIVE ~ 12pm to 1:30pm Plenary Session 3 - Wolfgang Simson
LIVE ~ 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Plenary Session 4 - Neil Cole
REPLAY ~ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Plenary Session 2 - Frank Viola

WHERE: Fuller Seminary (Irvine)
2021 Business Center Drive, Suite 115
Irvine, CA 92612

YOU MUST RSVP TO ATTEND:
Send an email to OCHOUSECHURCH@GMAIL.COM to let us know you're coming, how many you're bringing with you and which sessions you'll attend.

Attendance is FREE.

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