V3 Blog
Wonder in the Trauma Healing Process
Uncategorized, coronavirus, covid-19, emotional health, emotionally healthy practices, Healing, holistic health, pandemic, processing pain, reflection, soul care, spiritual practices, spirituality, The Gift of Wonder, trauma, wonderWe live in a deeply traumatized world. COVID has changed all of us and the ways we interact with our congregations and communities. Most of us are living in a state of constant anxiety and stress. These last few months have shaken us to ...
Cyber Missional Pioneering
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, cyber pioneering, digital platforms, internet, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, Missional-Incarnational, online communityThe internet is a missional and incarnational frontier The great missiologist Ralph Winter said that the future of missions was in the cities … while that is still true, we simply must acknowledge that a significant future aspect of miss...
Enneagram for Spiritual Formation Webinar
Uncategorized, AJ Sherrill, church leadership, church planting resources, Community Formation, Discipleship, enneagram, Identity, spiritual formation, V3 WebinarsWhat does the Enneagram have to do with this political climate, our identities, and following Jesus? A lot, actually. In fact, more than you can imagine. If you’ve moved on from the Enneagram, we encourage you to look again. If you’...
The Moment of Disruption & Decentralization
Uncategorized, centralization, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, decentralization, Discipleship, distributed leadership, Four Spaces of Belonging, Leadership, Mid-Sized Communities, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, pandemic, Resources, Social Space, tethering, tight knit communityWe are facing a disruption to the Church in ways that we have not seen in our lifetime. Rather than waiting for life to go back to normal for our church activities, we need to embrace this disruption as a gift that is breaking open space...
Forming a 5-Fold Leadership Team Immersion
Uncategorized, APEST, church diversity, church leadership, Church Planting, church planting resources, distributed leadership, five-fold gifting, immersion, Leadership, missional church, missional church planting, Missional Leadership, missional resource, TrinityA 4-week Immersion in How to Awaken and Assemble an Elder Team or Church Planting Team Using the APEST w/ Aaron and Karrie Thomas About this Immersion In partnership with The V3 Movement and Seeds & Water Collective: Somewhere along the ...
You Are a Soul: Spiritual Health
Uncategorized, church planter, church planter resource, contemplative, emotionally healthy practices, holistic health, integrated life, integration, interior life, intimacy, mindfulness, Missional-Incarnational, Rhythm and Rule of Life, rhythms, sacred, self awareness, soul care, spiritual direction, spiritual health, spiritual personalities, spiritual practices, spiritualityIn 1950 Bob Pierce found World Vision[1], the largest Christian relief and development agency in the world. Today World Vision serves more than one hundred million people in over one hundred countries every year. Yet for all the good tha...
Finding Direction in a Confusing Landscape
Uncategorized, direction, discernment, doodling, Rhythm and Rule of Life, rhythms, spiritual direction, spiritual health, spiritual practices, spirituality, The Gift of WonderI have just started on what I suspect will be a long, slow discernment project. It all began when I was reminded of the trips my parents used to take me and my three brothers on in the summer. We had a big Ford Falcon station wagon behin...
The Decentralized Shift Immersion
Uncategorized, accountability, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid-19, Dan White Jr, decentralization, Discipleship, discipleship pathway, dispersed, distributed leadership, generosity, Missional Leadership, Movement, Network, pandemicA 5-week Immersion for re-imagining and restructuring your mid-size or mega church toward decentralized gatherings w/ Dan White Jr & friends About this Immersion A global pandemic has disrupted the Church, there is no denying it—it fee...
Why Planters Are Equipped for Racial Justice
Uncategorized, APEs, APEST, Apostles, boundary-crossing mission, church history, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, Evangelist, Exegeting a City, Exegeting a Neighborhood, five-fold gifting, fuller theological seminary, gen z, intercultural, intercultural church, millennials, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, Multi-Ethnic, multi-ethnic church, multicultural, Neighborhood Church, partners, Pasadena, Prophets, prospectus, racial justice, racial reconciliation, systemic racism“If you are doing ministry in America and you don’t understand race, you’re not going to be an effective missionary.” – David Bailey As we witness this volcanic eruption of racial unrest spill out across the country, the urgenc...
