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We hope you have noticed that our Newsletter is late! We missed you but had an exciting spring with many changes in our schedule making it necessary to delay the Newsletter’s publication. One of those changes was the rescheduling of the Annual Conference. Many friends reported the April timeframe conflicted with their pastoral and professional responsibilities. However a small group of individuals were very committed to getting together and committing energy to moving the missional conversation forward so they gathered for a day and half in a Think Tank, a format that was very successful and we will use again in the future – watch for updates. The annual conference is now rescheduled for October 23-25, 2008. We are now finalizing plans and we hope you are too! Please reserve the dates and anticipate a more complete announcement shortly. In the meantime, you can reserve your space online by clicking here.

May 2, 2008: The latest edition (May 2008) of our newsletter, Partners In Innovation, is now available:

• A Letter From the President by Patrick Keifert
• Twenty Persons + Two Days with Time to Think = Energy by Pat Taylor Ellison
• Guided by Faith and Friends, Pat Taylor Ellison Readies Four Books for Publishing by Pat Taylor Ellison
• Bremer, Congregations, the Saga Continues! by Pat Taylor Ellison
• International Research Consortium Discusses Social Place and Calling of Congregations by Pat Taylor Ellison
• Crossing the Bar XVI - An Unnecessary God by Jim Johnson
• Missional Church In Practice - The Smell of a Missional Church by John Mueller Nowell
• Introduction to Lay Missional Retreats by Barbara Miller
• News and Events by Caroline Hvidsten

January 2 , 2008: Sign up now for our 2008 Spring Conference, Missional Church: Emerging Networks, Practical Resources.

December 17, 2007: The latest edition (December 2007) of our newsletter, Partners In Innovation, is now available:

• A Letter From Patrick Keifert, President and Barbara Miller, Chief Operating Officer
• Four Words on Singing by Patrick Keifert
• Writing Books Series Surprises and Delights by Pat Taylor Ellison
• Crossing the Bar XV - When Wisdom Bends Her Knee by Jim Johnson
• Missional Church In Practice - Experimenting on the Journey of Spiritual Discernment by Jannie Swart
• Dwelling In the Word - The Word of Luke 10 by Jerry Wolfe
• News and Events by Caroline Hvidsten

September 26 , 2007: The latest edition (September 2007) of our newsletter, Partners In Innovation, is now available:

• A Letter From the President by Patrick Keifert
• Sabbatical Presents Pat Taylor Ellison with Novel Experience by Pat Taylor Ellison
• Crossing the Bar XIV - The Church of the Penultimate by Jim Johnson
• Missional Church In Practice - Discovering Partners on the Journey of Spiritual Discernment by Jannie Swart
• Missional Church In Practice - Paying Attention to Space by John Mueller Nowell
• Missional Church In Practice - The True Costs of PMC by Patrick Keifert
• News and Events by Caroline Hvidsten

June 14 , 2007: The latest edition (June 2007) of our newsletter, Partners In Innovation, is now available:

• A Letter From the Editor by Daniel Lautenbach
• A Letter From the President by Patrick Keifert
• International Research Consortium Meeting Helps Missional Leaders Push Through the Pain by Pat Taylor Ellison
• Crossing the Bar XIII - The Attack of the Bible Thumpers by Jim Johnson
• Missional Church In Practice - What is Missional Church? by Jannie Swart
• Missional Church In Practice - Further Reading About Missional Church
• A Layperson's View of the Sustaining Missional Leadership conference by Amy Lewis
• Congregational Mission Reshapes Theological Education by Scott Hagley
• Boundary Crossing and Missional Transformation by Scott Hagley
• Inside the Sustaining Missional Leadership Conference by Kyle Schiefelbein
• News and Events by Caroline Hvidsten

March 25, 2007: The latest edition (March 2007) of our newsletter, Partners In Innovation, is now available:

• A Letter From the President by Patrick Keifert
• PMC From 50,000 Feet by Barbara Miller
• Missional Church In Practice - PMC Process Reveals Adaptive Challenges at Oxford Circle Mennonite Church by Tim Leaman
• Visit From Norway
• Ellison to Write Something Other Than a Grammar Book by Pat Taylor Ellison
• News and Events by Caroline Hvidsten, and
• An Announcement About the Allelon/Church Innovations Spring 2007 Conference, Sustaining Missional Leadership

January 29 , 2007: Church Innovations' 2006 annual report is available.

December 26, 2006: The latest edition (December 2006) of our newsletter, Partners In Innovation, is now available:

• A Letter From the President by Patrick Keifert
• Crossing the Bar XII - Details by Jim Johnson
• Missional Church In Practice - Diffusing the PMC Innovation by Harvey Kwiyani
• PMC Establishes Sound Missional Practises by Martin Robinson, and
• News and Events by Caroline Hvidsten

December 22, 2006: The Church Innovations/Allelon Spring 2007 Conference, Sustaining Missional Leadership, is open for registration. Please click here for more information or click here to register.

December 20, 2006: Patrick Keifert's new book, We Are Here Now, is here...now!

December 14, 2006: The Strauss family returns from their travels.

November 30, 2006: An update on PMC at the Lancaster Mennonite Conference.

November 16, 2006: Our friends the Strauss family from Namibia check in regarding their travels.

November 1, 2006: Church Innovations' Pat Taylor Ellison and Ben Cieslik vist St. Paul's Lutheran in Minnetonka.

October 19, 2006: Church Innovations announces a new managing director of Partnership for Missional Church (PMC), Jannie Swart.

October 16, 2006: Church Innovations' Pat Taylor Ellison and Barbara Miller report on their October visit to Bethesda Lutheran Church in Murcock, Minnesota.

October 11, 2006: The October 2006 edition of our newsletter, Partners In Innovation, is available:

• A Letter From the President by Patrick Keifert
• Missional Church In Practice - Relying on and Providing the Bread of Life by Jannie Swart
• Lancaster Mennonite Conference Forms Vision 2010 Through PMC Process by Alonna G. Sprunger
• Book Review - We Are Here Now, A New Missional Era by Patrick Keifert, reviewed by Mark Lau Branson
• News and Events by Caroline Hvidsten, and
• Sustaining Missional Transformation - the Spring 2007 conference sponsored by Church Innovations and Allelon

Previous editions of PII are also available:

• May 2006
• July 2006
• October 2006

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