[Magdalen] How the Church can be church without a church

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 16:01:30 UTC 2017


This is great! Sounds a lot like Nashuva, a synagogue in Los Angeles that
is intentionally without a building which borrows space in churches for a
monthly service and whose other activities are social service and small
group oriented.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This church “on wheels” is happening 20 miles north of me. I believe our
> diocesan quarterly magazine featured them last year , not a lot of local
> press though although I was not in town when the hurricane hit. Their
> sponsoring parish is in the original Master planned community in Houston
> -The Woodlands - a very wealthy and rather isolated enclave 40 miles north
> of downtown Houston.
> +Andy Doyle has encouraged a number of non traditional small group
> approaches to “church” in recent years.
> Lynn
>
> On Nov 30, 2017, at 9:07 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Where do I sign up?
>
> Actually I hope the bish sees this.
> It seems like a better way to do diocesan outreach than our current
> efforts.
> -M, remembering an argument with a rector who called the hungry “rice
> Christians”
>
> On Wednesday, November 29, 2017, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > http://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2017/11/27/church-without-walls-
> > uses-food-truck-to-drive-home-christian-mission-of-feeding-body-soul/
> >
> >
>


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