https://www.intersectnetwork.co/team daily 0.75 2024-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/b552247c-f179-47ca-bdb1-aff7fa69e61f/Matt+bio+pic+headshot.JPEG Team - Matt Temple (HE/HIM) Matt Temple is a church planter, Pastor, and coach who currently works co-vocationally as both Associate Director of New Church Starts for the North Texas Annual Conference and a local church pastor. In his role with North Texas his primary focus is on developing and supporting initiatives to establish new faith communities. He is passionate about helping leaders make meaningful connections between the gospel and their local context as they start new faith communities. In addition he gets to serve as the Pastor at Newstory Church in Chicago. Newstory is a fully affirming, multi-cultural faith community located in the Edgewater neighborhood in Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/0fb373c2-055c-4fd1-a5f6-517ef0595408/240410_Kris+Sledge+Headshot.png Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1629087656887-JQ8FWZNVH8MVJXAB8B4Y/Rachel+headshot+%281%29.jpg Team - Rachel Gilmore Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1629087690805-RTPJNP9V223Y0TT6M0TZ/Image+from+iOS+%281%29.jpg Team - Candace Lewis (SHE/HER) Rev. Dr. Candace M. Lewis is the President and Dean of Gammon Theological Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the first Woman to serve in this role in the school’s 138 year history. Candace is an Ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church and previously served as a District Superintendent of the Gulf Central area of the Florida Annual Conference. She had oversight of 89 pastors and churches. She also serves as a consultant, coach, and resource person to Bishops, Conference Developers, and Church Planters in starting and maintaining New Churches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1629087992375-UTXDRZT903BYTD6F8UKS/IMG_9053-Copy1-1.jpg Team - Tyler Sit (HE/HIM) Rev. Tyler Sit is the church planter of New City Church, a community in Minneapolis led mostly by queer people of color. In his book Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers--which Barbara Brown Taylor endorsed saying, “it makes me want a do-over at being Christian”--arises from theology practiced by a community in the same neighborhood of the George Floyd Uprisings. Sit is a second-generation Chinese American, trained community organizer, and United Methodist pastor. He has been featured in the New York TImes, City Lab, Minnesota Public Radio, and more. 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We seek a reparations approach to our training by intentionally lowering barriers for BIPOC planters, queer planters, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1633527354327-98KLZMZ3LYZ43EPMAGN3/pexels-anderson-guerra-1154198.jpg Home - Post-Colonial We repent of America’s history of colonization. We compost colonizer mindsets (present in many church planter trainings) into insistence on liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1633527375902-XRWE1ZHK6D72W3TNEICD/pexels-francesco-ungaro-4322027.jpg Home - Contextual There is no generic church planting method. Everything has arisen out of context and, therefore, all of our methods must be adaptive to context. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/56784ed6-0187-45d4-a9bd-526e11ea4255/Where-We-Meet_RGB_72dpi-e1696083426531.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1633527410924-J59OT1CFAUBW2AJ1B5DF/pexels-alexander-suhorucov-6457573.jpg Home - Diverse We believe it honors the Gospel when we create space for many experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Further, we know that significant harm can happen in these spaces unless there is a thorough and honest power analysis of privilege and marginalization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1633915891742-TO9FGCSRIKITIFOVSHAG/pexels-rakicevic-nenad-1262304.jpg Home - Innovative We’re not afraid of new things! In fact, Intersect was founded by practitioners, by people who saw gaps in our contexts and created something new to fill it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1629091120005-IKVY15N4RSX87VZ5UUUC/Image+from+iOS+%281%29.jpg Home - Candace Lewis Candace Lewis is the first woman elected to serve as president of Gammon Theological Seminary, the only historically Black United Methodist seminary. She loves God, life and people! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1629091101285-F6F620Y825H5K3IUSCGA/IMG_9053-Copy1-1.jpg Home - Tyler Sit Tyler Sit specializes in church plants, intersectional anti-oppression, the Enneagram, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1629091104761-67H0HNQ2KC40NHON29XN/828E25ED-9193-4BC5-B663-E05EF7E915D2_4_5005_c.jpeg Home - Matt Temple Matt Temple specializes in interactive training/development and coaching for establishing new faith expressions in a post-Christendom context. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/39194278-8df9-4f64-bc42-55443953fb92/240410_Kris+Sledge+Headshot.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1629091087758-QV516CDICRKF6CAKK0AW/Rachel+headshot+%281%29.jpg Home - Rachel Gilmore Rachel Gilmore specializes in fresh expressions/missional communities, coaching, and church planter assessment and training. https://www.intersectnetwork.co/about daily 0.75 2024-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3dded13c84c46f9540a5c/1633918589168-U6ASSGFPFDUIJ8H2VEHQ/pexels-kelly-lacy-4552852.jpg About - Ever get that feeling that God is asking you to start a new thing? 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