Life Together in a Fragmented World

We are honored to have Dr. Christine Pohl join us for our June webinar: Life Together in a Fragmented World. Dr. Christine Pohl speaks regularly on recovering the practices of hospitality and community and is the author of many publications including: Living into Community: Cultivating Practices that Sustain Us (Eerdmans, 2012) and Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Eerdmans, 1999); along with several other co-authored books and numerous scholarly and popular articles.

This webinar is scheduled for June 20 @ 12pm EST. You can register here:

Human beings were made for living in community, and it is in community that we flourish. However, life in any community is challenging and we often lack the skills and virtues that make life together good. In a deeply fractured world, the recovery of practices that build and sustain community is particularly important to our Christian life and witness. We don’t always recognize how important it is that those who follow Jesus are known for our hospitality and welcome, fidelity and truthfulness, and gratitude and grace.

In this Q&A webinar Christine Pohl and JR Woodward will explore YOUR questions about life together in community as it relates to church planting.

Please email your questions when you register. Questions may be sent by June 15 to: tonya@thev3movement.org

Dr. Christine Pohl retired in the summer of 2018 after having taught Christian Ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky for twenty-nine years. Prior to graduate studies and teaching at Asbury, she was involved in congregational, parachurch, and refugee ministries. Major publications include: Living into Community: Cultivating Practices that Sustain Us (Eerdmans, 2012) and Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Eerdmans, 1999); along with several other co-authored books and numerous scholarly and popular articles. She speaks regularly on recovering the practices of hospitality and community.

JR Woodward has been passionately planting churches on the East and West Coast that value tight-knit community, life-forming discipleship, locally-rooted presence and boundary-crossing mission for over 25 years. He is the author of Creating a Missional Culture (IVP, 2012) and co-author of The Church as Movement (IVP, 2016). He co-founded the Missio Alliance and currently serves as the National Director for the V3 Church Planting Movement. He is the co-founder of the Praxis Gathering and writes for numerous websites and journals. He has a Masters of Arts in Global Leadership from Fuller and is working on his PhD at the University of Manchester (UK).

Lori M. Ruffin is an upbeat strategic thinker. Fueled by a passion to help individuals and organizations fulfill their God-given purpose, she is the Operations Manager for the V3 Movement and the Founder of The COO Team, a virtual operations agency for nonprofits and small businesses. She enjoys helping others cultivate their relationship with God, songwriting and singing. She lives in Richmond, Va., with her husband and daughter.