Back from Nashville
Written by Mark Van Steenwyk : May 22, 2005
Well, it is 3am. I’m catching up on email and snail mail after the 14 hour drive home to Minneapolis from Nashville. Ick. I’m so glad that I don’t have many responsibilities for Missio Dei’s central gathering this week.
The conference was very refreshing. Not because of the sessions or content, but because of the people I connected with. Generally a warm and encouraging bunch.
In my most recent post, I shared my concern about the lack of diversity within Emergent. As if in answer to prayer, Brian McLaren closed the conference out with news that he has been building a relationship with a similar movement that has been going for about ten years in Latin America. Apprently Emergent has a Latino cousin! There isn’t going to be an Emergent Convention in 2006, but in 2007 the leadership of Emergent hopes to have a global convention…one in which we can learn from global voices that have been rethinking ecclesiology. I’m excited about the prospects, since this also addresses a recent post about how we can engage in global pentecostalism. I would suspect that some within the Latin American or Asian version of Emergent are much more connected to Pentecostalism.
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yes, there’s a lack of racial diversity, and for me, it often feels alone being a sole Asian face in the mix.. and it’s ironic, here in a multiracial America with at least 30% non-white, that EC can’t even get 3% racial diversity, and has to go overseas to South America or Africa to find that diversity. While I’d prefer to see it happen right here in the US of A, at least it’s happening on some scale, even global scale.
dj,
I have read some of the links you posted on your blog about ethnic diversity in the church. Do you know of any emergent-type churches where there is a greater ethnic diversity? Do you know of any black, hispanic, or asian emergent-type pastors or are asking the same questions? I’m really trying to gain my legs with this whole thing.
Ant
I know that Efrem Smith at the Sanctuary in Minneapolis would consider himself the pastor of a post-black church. Efrem has been connected to Emergent for the past few years.