Paul Clark from Pavillion Christian Community tells the story of how his church community joined with God in a unique story of community life and engagement.

We want to express our deepest thanks to each of you for the connections and partnerships we’ve had in 2011. I have, personally, met and been blessed by many new friends across the world. You have enriched my experience and understanding of what God is up to in churches and neighborhoods. In such differing places as New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, England and across North America I have seen how the Spirit is gestating Gospel life among faithful Christians in all kinds of communities. As I read the lectionary this week of Mary’s encounter with the angel announcing how her life will be transformed by God I thought of the people whose lives I have shared in these many places. I am convinced again that God is up to something out there in neighborhoods and communities, in ordinary congregations and parishes. It’s not in big leaders and programs but in the lives of the ordinary and the local that the Spirit is doing this work of transformation. It’s not limited to the ‘new’ communities but also right in the midst of churches steeped in tradition; it’s among open ended experiments and hierarchical, well-structured church systems.

To all God’s ordinary people in all the places where we have been, may the Spirit who came to Mary, Elizabeth, Zechariah and so many other ordinary men and women like us continue to gestate the dreams and experiments that will change us all!

Enjoy this Video Interview of Alan Roxburgh titled We Need Detectives of Divinity with Chris Yaw.

The North American Church is broken and you can’t fix it.

These are tough words from seasoned author and consultant Alan Roxburgh of The Missional Network. He says it’s high time Christians realize that God is the one disrupting the settled assumptions of Christendom and pushing us to new, unpredictable places.

The good news is that God’s not done – and – God is working through the very people we least suspect: average, everyday church members who need detectives of divinity to discern. Let this interview shake you up.

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