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THE CENTER LETTER

The Center Letter is going through a transition in 2011. 

The monthly Center Letter will become the anchor of the new “Center Community” - an interactive online community for missional church research, practice, and learning located here on our website .  Beginning in 2011 there will be no subscription fee for the Center Letter. Instead, readers will be invited to register once to access the Center Letter and the discussion forum that will surround it.  This dynamic learning community will be available to you ongoing!
  
If you would like us to let you know exactly when this transition will be complete, and how you will be able to access the Center Letter 2011, please contact us now.   
  
Watch for these changes!  They are coming soon!

The 2011 theme is:

The Simple Life: God’s Quiet Revolution of Love, Forgiveness, and Unity. 

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Each year, the Center’s staff partner with a noted thinker/ theologian/writer to stimulate and challenge our own research and writing.  This has been added value for Center Letter subscribers.  In 2011, we are collaborating with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Jonathan is a new monastic, and lives with his family in Rutba House in Durham, North Carolina.  Jonathan has authored many books, including, The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture, New Monasticism: What it has to Say to Today’s Church, God’s Economy: Redefining the Health and Wealth Gospel. He has co-authored Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, Becoming the Answer to our Prayers, and other books. 

Throughout 2011 the Center Letter will address themes of living the simple way of Christ in authentic community for the sake of the world, around topics like materiality and the Gospel’s incarnation, stability, prayer, obedience and accountability.

We hope you will join the community of learning in 2011!
CLICK HERE to: Find out how you can use The Center Letter for supporting fruitful conversation in your church:
  • Clergy groups use the Center Letter as they support and encourage one another to lead from a missional perspective.
  • Local church leadership teams (council, session, or board) use the Center Letter to balance their focus on operations with a quality time of study and group building each time they meet.
  • Christian educators  use the Center Letter to focus learning in workshops, seminars, and classes.
  • Visioning teams use it to ground themselves, surface important issues, and to assure that they are asking right questions.
  • Judicatory leaders purchase syndication rights to send it out as email link or hard copy in monthly resource packets to all congregations

Download these two past Center Letters for ideas on fostering fruitful conversation with your leaders.

CREATING READINESS: Preparing the Ground for Fruitful Conversation
CREATING READINESS:Cultivating Fruitful Conversation





 

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