A couple of weekends ago Gary and Terry Crowley hosted a conference that they had organized on The Emerging Church. That is the nature of the church today and how some things need to be updated to be effective in todays culture. Things like cell groups or small groups, accountability to serving in the church and how the church is more than a Sunday morning service or programs, but a way of life, were some of the topics discussed. The speaker they had brought in was Bob Roxburgh. Bob is the Director of Incarnational Leadership Institute in Vancouver. His son Cam is Terry's Pastor and that is the connection. Bob is interming at a church in England so it was easy to get him here. There were four sessions and averaged around 20-25 people at each session. Usually half were from our church and the rest from various other churches and connections. As we have no building Gary and Terry found a great facility that was attatched to a Methodist church called Ardfallen that just happened to be beside the Tim Hortons that we found. Makes you go hmm? The Tims is on the other side of the trees to the right. The weekend had mixed reviews as the Irish are slow to change and a cautious lot when it come to new ideas. But saying that it was well recieved and worth the effort.