tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post6954565261266931314..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: More on 'worship seeking understanding'Johan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-80278077419196117452007-02-21T12:08:00.000-08:002007-02-21T12:08:00.000-08:00Johan,A belated thanks for your response. I rememb...Johan,<BR/><BR/>A belated thanks for your response. I remembered asking this but had trouble finding the thread and dropped it until now. Google to the rescue!<BR/><BR/>-DavidDavid Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14232832969784724335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-13760726987625568322006-12-16T00:15:00.000-08:002006-12-16T00:15:00.000-08:00When I was at FUM, we would occasionally get sugge...When I was at FUM, we would occasionally get suggestions such as this. Of course our first step would be to probe whether the inquirer was actually the person who might be best suited to be the "planter." There's no pool of people that I know of who are ready and waiting to plant a church, but throughout the formal and informal networks of Friends, we become aware of people who have this leading. I guess I'd work the whole network: local meetings and churches, yearly meetings, the wider associations (FUM, FGC, Friends World Committee, EFI, etc.). Just don't overlook the possibility that you're the one who is being led.<br /><br />Friends General Conference used to have a booklet called "A New Friends Meeting," but I don't see it in their current online catalog. Probably a lot of the information is on <a href="http://www.fgcquaker.org/ao/whenyouretheonly.html">this page</a>. The FGC material presupposes an unprogrammed meeting, but a lot of these practical steps are correct for any new group. My idea of an ideal church planter is someone who cares more to serve the actual needs of people than to impose a predefined set of patterns on them.<br /><br />It's been some years since I've been more than peripherally involved with FUM, but the advantage we had was deep experience of both programmed and unprogrammed ways of being Friends. I'm sure that they'd be pretty eager to be supportive. But it is equally possible that major support --in terms of undergirding prayer as well as practical suggestions--would also come from informal networks, such as the people who read these Friendly blogs.<br /><br />JohanJohan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-90643877958206507262006-12-15T10:02:00.000-08:002006-12-15T10:02:00.000-08:00Johan,
I am the clerk of an unprogrammed meeting....Johan,<br /><br />I am the clerk of an unprogrammed meeting. It has also occurred to me that it would be beneficial to have a programmed meeting in our town for synergistic reasons, as well as to provide a place for potential Friends who might not be temperamentally suited for or otherwise interested in unprogrammed worship.<br /><br />I haven't given this too much consideration, but your posts on the subject have piqued my interest. I'm wondering - where would one start? Could you write to, FUM, say, and suggest that they "plant a church" in a particular city?<br /><br />Dave CarlDavid Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14232832969784724335noreply@blogger.com