Mark Scandrette

Hey everyone,

The Church Basement Roadshow—A Rollin’ Gospel revival is a 90-minute high energy, meaningful and light-hearted show traveling to 36 cities across the U.S. this summer. Three friends from varied backgrounds (Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt and Mark Scandrette) join forces as a team of revivalists in the tradition of the late 19th and early 20th century—to issue a call to join the greatest people movement of all time – to a life lived well with God in the Way of Jesus. Drawing on material from their most recent books, these three friends will use skits, group sing-alongs, spoken word poetry, video and old-timey style preaching to invite audiences into a serious encounter with the exciting possibilities of lived Christian faith in our day.

ROLLIN’… An invitation to join the hope-filled, opened armed, alive and well journey of faith in our day.

GOSPEL’… God’s reconciliation of all things through the example, sacrifice and message of Jesus.

REVIVAL’… imagining new possibilities, collaborating with the creator’s good dreams, and living the risk-taking adventure that is making a life in the way of Jesus

GOALS FOR THE ROADSHOW:

To encourage and inspire local faith communities towards conversation, creativity and common action.
To promote the Revivalists “tools for the revolution”—each of our most recent books. (The New Christians by Tony Jones, A Christianity Worth Believing by Doug Paggit and SOUL GRAFFITI by Mark Scandrette)
To bring helping attention and energy to the causes of our sponsoring organizations.

We hope that this tour can bring energy and momentum to local networks of emerging Christians– and wherever possible we will be available to meet with cohorts and networks before of after the show.
We will be coming to cities throughout Central and Northern California June 17-21.

June 17– Fresno– Hosted at University Presbyterian. Chris Erdman. erdmanc AT gmail.com,
June 18– Sacramento– Hosted at Lakehills Covenant. Jeromy Johnson. jeromyj AT sbcglobal.net
June 19– San Francisco– Location and committee chairmanTBA
June 20– San jose– Location TBA committee chairmanTBA
June 21– Oakland– Hosted by Sequoyah Community Church. John O’hara. john AT sequoyahcommunity.org

We need your help. We are looking still for host communities in San Francisco and San Jose. And we are building local revival committees in each city to help with promotion. In select cities we will be doing a half-day leader’s forum on emerging faith issues. If you would like to be involved– contact the local gospel committee chairman in select cities– or contact me if you would like to help host in San Jose or San Francisco–markscandrette AT gmail.com

See more details at www.churchbasementroadshow.com

Thanks for your consideration!

—Mark, Doug and Tony

My friend Mark Van Steenwyck has asked me to help judge a writing competition. See details here

Here’s a workshop ReIMAGINE will be facilitating in early May. I think it will be really helpful to people who dream about new kinds of Christian community. Register here.
CREATING COMMUNITY: IN THE WAY OF JESUS
Missional. Experimental. Generative.

DATE: May 2-4

SCHEDULE:
Friday night 7-10 P.M.
Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 P.M.
Sunday 9 a.m. to 12 P.M.

COST: $95 Includes 2 nights lodging and 3 meals. Scholarships and student discounts available upon request. Sign-up at www.reimagine.org

LOCATION: Clunie Conference Center 301 Lyon Street San Francisco 94117 (Lyon @ Fell)

In an age of high mobility and social fragmentation, we search for
ways to connect with one another around our deepest values and highest aspirations–to see our Maker’s dreams become as real “on earth” as they are “in heaven.” Simply put, we want to be “making a life in the way of Jesus”–but we don’t want to (and we can’t) do it alone. In this weekend intensive we will explore simple and organic ways we can create communities together–that are missional, experimental and generative.

Over the past 10 years ReIMAGINE has helped cultivate neighborhood-based faith communities throughout San Francisco and around the bay area.

THIS RETREAT IS DESIGNED FOR YOU IF:

* You want to create or participate in an intentional Christian community experiment
* You are part of a community or small group that you hope to see become more intentional, missional or formational.
* You are a leader who wants to learn more about organic and relational approaches to community & formation

SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED DURING THIS WEEKEND:

* What Jesus modeled and taught about our life together.
* Historical examples of Christ-inspired community and mission
* Community, personal healing and growth
* Cultivating common values, commitments and practices
* Leadership, collective discernment and mutual submission
* Cultural awareness and the development of your common mission & vision
* Embracing the fluid, improvisational and networked nature of community in an urban society
* Hospitality, transparency, trust and generosity
* Love, forgiveness, humility and reconciliation

AT THE END OF THIS RETREAT WE HOPE PARTICIPANTS:

* Have a greater understanding of the nuts and bolts of creating community together
* Identify their next steps for pursuing missional community with others
* Commit to a 2-3 month missional community project/experiment

There will be follow-up project consults for the next 3 weeks. Wednesday nights in May.