“Missional” needs to talk neighborhood…
Martin Robinson has a great article up on “Together in Mission” surrounding the current state of the missional movement. He says it’s started to spin its tires as questions of leadership structure and preferred ministry models begin to torque us from shared missional life together. In addition to discipleship, Robinson suggests that place is foundational [...]
Start discovering Parish Collective
Parish Collective is about connecting and resourcing the people of faith in particular neighborhoods to be the church in the place they live. We work at a grassroots level to root together Neighborhood Churches, Missional Communities, and Faith-Based Orgs in their parish. Then we link them to other parishes regionally and globally for mutual support [...]
Map with Collaborators
Care about your neighborhood? Add yourself as a Parish Collaborator and share in street-level renewal. Adding yourself to Parish Collective’s geo-directory takes 30 seconds. Once you are on the map you will be connected to others who are practicing being the church in your neighborhood and the neighborhoods near you. You will also be linked with an ever-growing circle of collaborators around the world who are practicing church that is rooted in neighborhoods and linked across cities.
Event: Salons, Charrettes, Symposiums, Sessions, Conferences
Parish Collective hosts a variety of events which serves as platforms for collaboration, encouragement, and training. Here is a sample of a previous event in Portland. For more info regarding training events please see the events and training pages.
Creating Home; Subverting Empire with Activist Theologian Brian Walsh
Parish Collective and the Other Journal present: Activist Theologian Brian Walsh in Seattle, WA on March 8th at 7pm. He is the author of several notable books including co-authoring Colossians Remixed with Sylvia C. Keesmaat. For details check out the events page. “What was true of an ancient community of Christian believers struggling with a powerful [...]
Interviews with Work of the People and PC organizers
More coming soon. Purchase the DVD series from Work of the People featuring Parish Collective organizers Dwight Friesen, Tim Soerens, and Paul Sparks.
Pedagogy of Presence Lecture
Parish Collective would like to thank The Other Journal and Mars Hill Graduate School for partnering in our first Pedagogy of Presence lecture with Dr. Jon Stanley. It was a great lecture and a great turnout. Listen to the lecture
Upcoming Salons
Salons Placeable Placeable; a conversation about risk, faith, creativity, and the neighborhood church. This is our next Parish Collective Portland gathering where we link across our metro area to talk about how we can root deeper into our neighborhoods. We’re really excited to have with us, Mark Scandrette, director of ReIMAGINE! and Dwight Friesen, professor [...]
Dr. John Perkins
Dr. John Perkins on the gospel, community, and the neighborhood from Parish Collective on Vimeo.
Get Involved in the Network
People from neighborhoods up and down the West Coast are participating in the Parish Collective Network. If you are part of a church, missional group, faith-based org, community development association, or any group of friends with people of faith committed to a particular neighborhood, this will be an encouraging network for you. Hear stories of [...]
Convene with Parish Practitioners
Several cities have already begun the Parish Collective process. These cities have a team of organizers that have convened parish leaders and practitioners together to meet face-to-face in order share best practices, create connections, and support the movement towards a more local and embodied way of being the church in everyday life. If that [...]
Catalyze Your Leadership
Parish Collective has developed unique training and consulting formats in partnership with a variety of non-profits, academic institutions, and Parish Collective churches and groups. You can email us at info@parishcollective.org to inquire regarding speaking, consulting, salons, charrettes, and other training interests.
Celebrate the Movement
There is a tectonic shift happening under the surface of the church in North America. Parishioners are returning to the parish. The greater our individual mobility extends, the greater the world’s longing and need for a faith that can be lived out collectively – where we can be present… where there is an embodied practice… where [...]
Events: Salons, Charrettes, Symposiums, Sessions, Conferences
Parish Collective hosts a variety of events which serves as platforms for collaboration, encouragement, and training. Here is a sample of a previous event in Portland. For more info regarding training events please see the events and training pages.
Post Parish Collective Road Show
We can’t thank everyone who made our parish collective tour such an incredible success. Hundreds of new connections were made, relationships strengthened, and imaginations were rekindled with how we might be joining God at work in our neighborhoods, and learning to connect from our neighborhoods across the city.
Canada Partners – Edmonton Neighborhood Life
PC Partners Edmonton Neighborhood Life Neighborhood Life has a growing number of neighborhood-based groups and missional expressions throughout Edmonton, Vancouver, Surrey, and Toronto. Contact: Karen Wilk (kwministry@shaw.ca) or Howard Lawrence (howardlawrence@shaw.ca)