Parish Collective Full Steam Ahead

What an honor is has been and is, to have been included in some behind the scenes dreaming and planning associated with what is called the Parish Collective initiative.

This is the "brain child" of Tim Soerens and Paul Sparks. They have envisioned for sometime how things could be when faith communities band together in the place they exist. All to bless and be blessed by the community...their neighbors. And to link all this across geographical distances...all to build up and equip more and more churches with genuine community engagements.

I was able to hear this vision emerge from these two very creative men. I got to hear their initial vision start to be articulated at the Communities First Association in March in Seattle. Fantastic!

Starting Sunday, June 6th, the Parish Collective begins to rollout their vision and initial strategies. Centerpiece to this will be bringing in Michael Frost, noted speaker and author, to help chart a course. See their web page for details.

Without hesitation, I sense this effort by Tim and Paul (and now a ton of others) will make a remarkable difference in many communities. Communities where they live by the motto "Community needs Everybody". When everybody is at the "table", their dreams, gifts, action joining others, well, watch out what happens when transformation comes a calling!!

Tim, Paul and myself below talking over strategies and networking. Thank you gentlemen for your vision and hard work!

Jeff