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Eight new experiments announced

7/2/2019

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Dear Friends,

Happy 4th of July week! I pray that this summertime may be a restorative and peaceful time for all of you. I myself am back from a few days of a "staycation" which I used to catch up on fun reading and relaxing (meaning lots of naps!). 

Right before my vacation, I was in Virginia at VTS where I had a great time mingling with, listening to, and hopefully, be a resource to the MDiv students on campus.

While I was there I had numerous meetings and we are happy to announce a few more experiments: 


18-Virtual Supply Priest: Creating a network of great Episcopal preachers who can provide recorded video sermons for congregations who do not have a Sunday clergy person and will instead offer Morning Prayer.

19-Touring Gospel Choir: Organize a touring gospel choir who can go to various Episcopal communities to perform. In each community, the choir will lead a master class for local Episcopal choirs on how to best use the gospel music in our tradition.

20-Modern Christian Radio: A streaming radio station that plays contemporary music but has Christian messages in between the music. 

21-Drunk Bible: Produce videos in the line of Comedy Central's "Drunk History" that make learning Bible truths fun and provide a first step on the path to discipleship.

22-Cleaning Monks: Create a low-barrier, low-investment, and replicable model of a social enterprise that can provide jobs (as a ministry) and where profits can support the mission of the sponsoring congregation.

23-Millennial Travel Experience: Work with an experienced tour operator to create a trip that can fill the "spiritual experience" desires of millennials. 

24-Easy Invite Show: Organize a small tour for a theatrical show that can be performed in a church and thus make it easy for people to invite their friends to church and have a conversation about spirituality.

25-EpiscoPALS: To connect US high school students with Palestinian high school students with the goal of creating deep accompanying relationships among the faithful. (If the name sounds familiar, it's because we are repurposing the name we had for experiment #14 which for now we are calling "Senior Community.")

What do you think of the new experiments? Do any stand out to you and maybe you want to get involved? Email me, I'd love to chat.

Also, Now that we have more experiments (25!!), I have also reformatted this newsletter to make it easier to follow the experiments based on where they are in the development cycle. 

As always, stay tuned! 
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Harry Jenkins link
7/2/2019 05:48:34 am

Hey, the Alexis MP app is not working. Can you help?
By the way, thanks for all you do. Enjoyed your presentations at Missional Voices. Please keep up this important work that you are doing!

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Fr. Lorenzo link
7/2/2019 06:54:13 am

Hi Harry, The server we use to upload went down. It's not the first time so we have asked the programmers to have the server send us an email when it stops connecting. Thanks for letting us know.
Fr. Lorenzo

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Jeunee Godsey link
9/23/2019 01:09:05 pm

Hi, Your experiment idea #18 (Virtual Supply Priest: Creating a network of great Episcopal preachers...) might look at partnering with another wonderful resource, "A Sermon for Every Sunday." https://asermonforeverysunday.com/
This site follows the revised common lectionary, has high quality downloadable videos, and a variety of excellent preachers of a variety of denominations... including Michael Curry, Brian McLaren, Will Willemon, and preachers local to Richmond, Virginia, which is where the founder, Pastor Jim Sommerville, lives. Their mission is the similar, to provide quality preaching for congregations that may not have a pastor or preacher, especially small, rural congregations. But it can also be used for adult forum discussion groups and the like.

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