The NEXT Few Minutes

This month, our blog series is actually a vlog series – a video blog, that is! We’re calling it “The NEXT Few Minutes.” Over the next several weeks, we’ll share with you short, 2-3 minute videos from a variety of folks around the country with the hopes they spark your own imagination. We hope you’ll learn about some trends, ask questions, and think deeply about the practice of ministry in your own setting.

To kick us off, NEXT Church director Jessica Tate offers “What is NEXT Church?” Join the conversation by commenting on this blog post or on our Facebook/Twitter pages!

To see all of the videos in our series, check out our YouTube playlist or this list of blogs.

2016 National Gathering NEXT Church Update

Lori Archer Raible and Andrew Foster Connors, NEXT Church executive team members, share what NEXT Church accomplished in 2015 and aims to accomplish in 2016.

2016 National Gathering Welcome

NEXT Church Strategy Team Co-Chairs Karen Sapio and Shavon Starling-Louis orient us to the 2016 National Gathering

2015 National Gathering: NEXT Church Update

An introduction to NEXT Church, the State of NEXT, intentions for the Gathering, and exploration of our theme.

Storytelling from the 2014 National Gathering

One of the highlights of the 2014 National Gathering was the biblical storytelling that took place in worship.

Jeremiah 29 was told in a variety of ways–

in 22 voices:

and by Jeff Krehbiel:

Then we learned to tell it:

There were additional stories told in worship, too:

Casey FitzGerald tells Matthew 10:

…and Luke 2

Jeff Krehbiel and Casey FitzGerald tell John 16

MaryAnn McKibben Dana tells part of Jeremiah at the start of her sermon

 

Thanks to Casey FitzGerald, Jeff Krehbiel, MaryAnn McKibben Dana for sharing their gifts this way. If you want to learn more about biblical storytelling, check out Casey’s blog Faith and Wonder.

Ashley Goff – Liturgy as Improv

Ashley Goff on Liturgy as Improv [Part of the 2013 NEXT Church National Gathering in Charlotte, NC.]

Patrick Daymond – Relational Meetings (Charlotte 2013)

Patrick Daymond on One to One Meetings

[Part of the 2013 NEXT Church National Gathering in Charlotte, NC.]

Bill Golderer and Aisha Brooks Lytle – Incubating Faith Communities (Charlotte 2013)

Bill Golderer and Aisha Brooks Lytle on Incubating Faith Communities

[Part of the 2013 NEXT Church National Gathering in Charlotte, NC.]

Paul Roberts – Called to Create What’s NEXT (Charlotte 2013)

Paul Roberts thought piece: Called to Create What’s NEXT

[Part of the 2013 NEXT Church National Gathering in Charlotte, NC.]

Tom Are and Shannon Kershner – Introduction to NEXT (Charlotte 2013)

Tom Are and Shannon Kershner give a brief introduction to NEXT Church at “A Taste of NEXT Church” at Myers Park Presbyterian Church.

[Part of the 2013 National Gathering in Charlotte, NC]