Program

URBAN IMMERSION

URBAN IMMERSION is a learning community at the confluence of church planting, community transformation, urban mission, community activism, education, and urban renewal. As we're caught up in the whirlwind of globalization, urbanization, and a wholehearted shift in worldview to postmodernism we need a new framework, a new approach, and a new paradigm in order to make a significant impact in the rapidly urbanizing culture we're swimming in. The world is urbanizing at a pace and with a mass unparalleled in human history.

Rolling out sometime in 2012 we'll be exploring various topics, themes, and concepts related to see cities impacted by the in-breaking of the Kingdom of God.

Here is a list of some of the upcoming topics we'll cover:

A Theology of the City | Parameters of City-Reaching | Community Transformation in the City | The Geography of Church Planting | Motives for Site Selection in Church Planting | Gentrification, the Creative Class, and the Urban Diaspora | God's Template for Urban Living | Renewing the City | Layers of the City | Pilgrims and Place | Theology of the Built Environment | Designing Mission Around Urban Form | Exegeting the City | Pedestrian-Oriented Church Planting