I shared in my last newsletter about the slow ‘grind it out’ work that is going on in ministry. I am thankful though to be developing more team members for Dynamic Adventure so that together we can work on developing leaders that develop communities that look like Jesus. Here are 5 ‘first downs’ in the DA world.
Different translations of the book
The DA book recently was translated into Dutch, which makes this our 9th translation. We also have the book in Spanish, Castilian, Portuguese (Iberian and Brazilian), French, Italian, and Russian. (And English of course.)
Trainings
Like I mentioned in my newsletter, my team mate Bethany and I co-led our first (virtual) training together. More of a ‘train-the-trainer’ event, we helped a group of our UK leaders prepare their first training course at the Kings School of Theology in London. The King’s School training focussed on two areas: first, missional theology and ecclesiology, and second, missional practice in community. In other words the training was about information that leads to ACTION, which is what I get excited about! The first course quickly filled to capacity with twenty students, so a second course was added for later this spring!
DA Facebook group
We are launching a private FB group for people who use the DA book for their faith communities. Our hope is that this will be a safe space for more learning and community.
DA best practices challenge
Earlier this year we held a challenge on our social media platforms for people to share their stories of best practices, people shared some great stories but one in particular that I loved was from a church planter in Italy “Our focus is a ministry of ‘with.’ We initiate by asking others to be with us in our daily lives and activities so that they may experience what it looks like to follow Jesus. We follow Jesus' example in doing this by asking "come, walk with me..."
DA news letter
We are also launching a DA newsletter. This newsletter will be for those who are missionally living/church planters who use the DA handbook with their team. For now it will be a quarterly letter sharing reflections, thought provoking questions and DA news.
I’m so thankful to have a growing team of people to keep the Dynamic Adventure dynamic. This is an exciting time for us. As I said in my last newsletter “Since we’re just past the Super Bowl, I’ll use a football analogy to describe recent ministry work. Sometimes there are big, flashy, fifty-yard pass plays that show up in the highlight reels, and other times there’s a long, slow running game where teams just ‘grind it out’ a few yards at a time. Both are important, as both move a team toward the goal”