I’m heading down to Tasmania on the 14th to 16th of May to speak at “Imagine”, a one day workshop presented by the Uniting Church and Baptist Church of Tasmania. We’ll be grappling with the ways in which the world is changing, points of connection between gospel and contemporary culture and with what it means to “nurture a missional imagination”. I’m taking four sessions on the Saturday, on paradigms of mission, discerning local opportunities, embodying gospel as a community, and being an inter-generational community.
On Friday night I’ll be sitting in on a “Dreaming” night for local Uniting Church leaders as they respond to “How Then Shall We Live”, a report on the future of mission in Hobart. How then shall we live? describes a church that is far more concerned with participating in the mission of God, with serving in the wider community, and with being a people of God than with its own survival. The Uniting Church of greater Hobart will dream imaginatively, risk freely and resource courageously as it follows the way of Jesus. The report offers an invitation to the congregations, faith communities and agencies of the Uniting Church in greater Hobart to enter into collaborative missional partnerships as together they live out the gospel in the city. You can download the full report and the Uniting Alive two page summary.
On Sunday morning I’m speaking at Kingston in Southern Hobart.