Inspiration from at Home

October 2nd, 2005 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

I had no idea that Tom was going to post on the road because a) he didn’t tell me he was going to and b) when I mentioned the idea of blogging the journey during January, he wasn’t too keen on it.

I find it a bit ironic that the woman from Lutheran World Relief he spoke with wants us to visit her in Baltimore. Why? Because last night as I was immersing myself in emerging church conversation I had an idea. In my post on the emerging church I mentioned Brian McLaren¹, one of the leaders of the movement, and his home church: Cedar Ridge Community Church. CRCC happens to be in Spencerville, Maryland, which is right outside of Baltimore.

I looked up the leadership from the church and sent the youth pastor an e-mail. I thought it would be a great experience to visit the church (which is a pioneer in the emerging church movement) and to meet with/interview the youth pastor. I explained to him the journey Tom and I will be taking and asked him if we could meet up sometime in the month of January. And you never know, maybe Brian McLaren will be in town and we could have coffee with him, too.

I e-mailed him late Friday night (a quick search of my Gmail tells me it was 2:39 AM), so I’m not expecting an reply until Monday. More on the story as it unfolds.

1. I really, really want to read McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy. I don’t have the money for it right now, and I’m not surprised that it’s not available at Luther’s library. ↩