WHAT IS MISSIONAL VOICES?

“This is the heart of the Jesus movement. And it will turn the world, and the Church…upside down, which is really right side up.” – The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry Missional Voices began with a simple question: What if God is up to something really big and global but it can only be discovered through the small and local? It was through the exploration of that question that Missional Voices was born…

…a gathering for the sake of reimagining church and transforming neighborhoods.

In 2015, a committed group of seminarians began meeting to discuss a more specific conversation, inviting leaders from around the Episcopal Church to join us for a conference on April 15-16, 2016. As we began inviting diocesan missioners, practitioners, and academics to the first conference, we heard a similar response: “We’ve been dreaming of a chance to get in the same room and talk about this work.”

Missional Voices exists to help turn the Church inside out. We aim to connect church leaders, students, entrepreneurs, artists, community organizers, non-profit leaders, church planters, and everyday innovators in The Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion – anyone pursuing the mission of God in their context.

Thursdays at 2 is a weekly preview of Episcopal Church innovative ministries. Every Thursday at 2 pm Eastern, a new video illustrating the work of congregations and individuals will be posted on the Episcopal Church’s Facebook page here and YouTube Channel here. 

Produced by the Episcopal Church Office of Communications, previously posted videos featured on Thursdays at 2 include:

• Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on World Refugee Day 2016
• Church on the Square in Baltimore
• Episcopal Church Advocacy
• Missional Communities
• Mobile Loaves and Fishes, a food truck ministry in the Diocese of Rhode Island
• Re-membering and Re- Imagining, a report from the House of Bishops.
• Double Down on Love, an original song from the Thad’s Band in Santa Monica, CA, Diocese of Los Angeles
• The Slate Project, an Episcopal, Lutheran and Presbyterian congregation that exists online and in person.
• The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Presiding Bishop’s Canon for Reconciliation and Evangelism, providing an update on recent church planting meetings.
• The Rev. Scott Claasan of St Michael’s University Church reflecting on how music and surfing led him back to church. 

For more information contact Mike Collins, Episcopal Church Manager of Multimedia.