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CURATORS AND GUIDES

Stephanie Spellers, Lead Organizer, The Crossing, Boston

Ian Mobsby, and ArchBishops Missioner for Fresh Expressions, author, and priest missioner of Moot, London,  (EPV Boston Keynoter).

Tom Brackett, Program Officer for Church Planting and Redevelopment for the Episcopal Church

Becky Garrison, journalist and author (Jesus Died for This and Starting from Zero with $0)

Karen Ward, Director of Episcopal Village and Vicar of Church of the Apostles, Seattle

Ancient wisdom proclaims: 'It takes a whole village to raise a child'.                 What if the same wisdom was applied to the Church?                     

What if we cultivated 'mission shaped dioceses' across the Episcopal Church (and the Anglican Church in Canada), started new and fresh expressions of church and raised up 'pioneer missioners' in each diocese to help lead us in mission within the 'great emergence'? - Episcopal Village as a network, community and events, cultivates and resources 'a village approach' to emerging mission.

Brian McLaren says about Episcopal Village (EpV):

It's interesting to imagine how differently history would have unfolded if John Wesley and the Methodist movement had been welcomed and given space for needed long-term innovation within the Anglican communion. The Episcopal Church in the USA, by wisely and courageously charting a path of breadth and inclusion in recent years, is well-placed for a kind of historical "do-over" now, at this "kairos" moment. In the coming years, hundreds, hopefully many thousands of new faith communities will be born. Could space be created for them, within the great tradition represented by the Episcopal Church, to form, experiment, experiment, innovate, grow, and serve? The EpV could be a catalyst for exactly that sort of possibility to be realized

AT EPISCOPAL VILLAGE BOSTON:

• Learn about opportunties for engaging God's mission in today's post-modern and post-Christian culture in North America, as Anglicans! The Anglican heritage, when broken open and given fresh expression' within today's culture, is uniquely able to speak into to the hearts, minds and souls of postmodern seekers.
  

• Discover ancient-new ways to engage emerging /fresh expressions of church and mission in your parish and diocese.
  

• Explore mission together in community 'peer2peer.' Share your experiences with others and receive training and practical resources for engaging the 'Five Marks of Mission of the Anglican Consultative Council and the Five Strategic Mission Priorities of the Episcopal Church within the Great Emergence': Evangelism/proclaiming the Good News of Christ, Reaching youth and young adults, Leadership for mission, Strengthening congregations, Worship, music and liturgy.

• Take part in Episcopal Village (EpV) as new missional network and community of support within TEC.

Read about recent EPV events: 

EPV Portland

EPV Baltimore

EVENT SPONSORS

The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts 

* EPV Boston is the annual Spring Learning Event for Dio Mass

The Cathedral Church of St. Paul and The Crossing

Episcopal Divinity School (EDS).

The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut