As part of the Northern California Church Alive Summit, Chet Manchester, the President of The Mother Church, and Madelon Maupin, Bible scholar and speaker, discuss the roots of the Christian Science church. This discussion is titled “The Soil of Church Growth: Movement of the Spirit,” representing the first of three topic areas of the event: “Deep Roots.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV5nQF6GLmA&rel=0
Presentation given by Jorge Perez of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, San Francisco about reaching out to a diverse audience using radio, television and by seeing everyone as God’s children.
Presentation on Community Embrace given by David Fowler and Jorge Perez.
Slides from the 2013 Northern California Church Alive Summit on the topic of “For the Love of Church: Changes that Work”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkOW7tUeQs&rel=0
Building Community through Bible Study: Session II (Madelon Maupin)
How can we enhance our church community through Bible Study? What are some of the challenges and opportunities in sharing Biblical scholarship with fellow Christian Scientists? Madelon Maupin conducts an interactive discussion.
Produced as a part of the Northern California Church Alive Summit, held in Sacramento May 3-5, 2013.
Madelon’s Online Bible Learning website: BibleRoads.com
Find our more about her at www.madelonmaupin.com.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2rYo66sNXE&rel=0
Building Community through Bible Study: Session I (Madelon Maupin)
How can we enhance our church community through Bible Study? What are some of the challenges and opportunities in sharing Biblical scholarship with fellow Christian Scientists? Madelon Maupin conducts an interactive discussion.
Produced as a part of the Northern California Church Alive Summit, held in Sacramento May 3-5, 2013.
Madelon’s Online Bible Learning website: BibleRoads.com
Find our more about her at www.madelonmaupin.com.
Youth speak from the heart: sharing what they want in a church.
Youth breakout hosted by Chet Manchester explores with youth, qualities they want to experience in their church community and provides the opportunity for them to build an inclusive church.
Youth breakout hosted by Chet Manchester. Produced as a part of the Northern California Church Alive Summit, held in Sacramento May 3-5, 2013. This is an activity for members and friends of the Christian Science church community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB1Nlgr8j4k&rel=0
Church Alive Manager Bill Warrick and Summit Project Coordinator Jennifer Dale open the NorCal Summit with inspired context for Church Alive.
The Northern California Church Alive Summit opening program on Saturday morning: Bill Warrick and Jennifer Dale introduce the theme, “Growing New Shoots From Deep Spiritual Roots”. This session includes an introductory video produced for the Summit, which poses questions to promote healing responses throughout the weekend.
Please see this video clip that was shown at the Summit but were not included in this video:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/stranger-than-nature/videos/death-defying-goats/
Produced as a part of the Northern California Church Alive Summit, held in Sacramento May 3-5, 2013. This is an activity for members and friends of the Christian Science church community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO7XBkHRQ_E&rel=0
What do others know about Christian Science, and what do their answers prompt us to explore at this summit?
This video was specially produced for the Northern California Church Alive Summit. It asks some hard questions, and some of the answers are surprisingly frank.
Produced for the Northern California Church Alive Summit, held in Sacramento May 3-5, 2013. This Summit is an activity for members and friends of the Christian Science church community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgs9JXCdbfQ&rel=0
Summit kick-off focused on fellowship and music, member to member sharing, and an inspiring look at church today.
The Northern California Church Alive Summit begins Friday evening with a gathering around a metaphorical campfire.
Program includes contemporary arrangements of hymns, video of some of the best thinking about today’s church from other Christians, an inspirational talk by George Strong, entitled “Church on Fire”, and participant sharing from discussions on Church and Christianity.
Please also see this video clip that was shown Friday evening at the Summit but was not included in this video:
“The Campfire Story” by Rend Collective Experiment
Produced as a part of the Northern California Church Alive Summit, held in Sacramento May 3-5, 2013. This is an activity for members and friends of the Christian Science church community.
