A Video that Captures the Missional Imagination

I'm doing some training in October with a church in Edina, MN. The funny thing is that the church is only about 30 minutes from where I used to live. Anyway, The Table is the name of the church and they are holding a retreat for which they developed a video to promote. I was so impressed by their promotion which you can view here that I asked them if they would do some slight modifications to use. The first time I saw this, I cried. I was moved by the fact that the Spirit was revealing a missional imagination to these leaders.


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Anonymous said…
cool videos. I assume the people who did this don't have kids - where'd they get the time?
August 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM
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