Jamie Arpin-Ricci and I have been scheming a little, and after several emails, a phone conversation or two, and a hastily-prepared website later… Alan Roxburgh will be with us in Winnipeg on June 5, 2007. We’ll be doing a kind of casual Missional Leadership Conversation along the lines of the event in Toronto a month or so ago. Besides the few of us, the event is also being promoted by Allelon and Resonate.
One evening, mark your calendars, don’t miss it. Free.* No registration deadline, you can just show up… though it will help us greatly if you would pre-register so we have an indication of how many are coming.
And yes, the asterisk on the word “free” means we’ll hoping that an offering will cover all the costs. The event doesn’t really have a sponsor or an underwriter (yet!) so we’re trusting that we’ll come up with enough cash for the necessaries. Venue is TBA, but watch the event page or register your email address and you’ll be in the loop. And if you’re not from here, Winnipeg is a 15-17-hour drive or less from all sorts of places… Calgary, Saskatoon, Thunder Bay, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Duluth… all kinds of places. Only 2-3 hours by air from a lot of places too, like Vancouver, Kelowna, Toronto, and lots more. And if anyone actually does travel that far for this one-evening event, we promise not to guilt you about contributing to costs! I might let you buy me a beer though.
Anyone who has already clicked through or who is particularly astute may have noticed that a new site has also been launched to house the information for this event: Missional.ca is a little project that is likely to evolve into something or other, though there isn’t much there at present. Missional stories and ideas from anywhere in Canada will be welcome though! Jamie nabbed this domain a little while ago, and is promising to use it for good, not evil — so there’s now the basis of a site there ready for further developments… but in the meantime, you can register for the event to let us know you’re coming.
Wish I could be there. Mapquest says it’s only 12 hours, but I think it might be more than that. I guess I’ll have to get a passport if I ever plan on visiting my Canadian friends.
I want to come too … but it’s more like 25 hours for me (2533 km one way – according to Googlemaps) which seems a bit much for an evening. … and I also need a passport to go up north now. What silliness.
Grace and Sonja,
I think you only need a passport if you fly. Do I hear a road trip Amen!
In my case, I’ve done a few too many Toronto-Winnipeg drives in the last three years…but that’s another story.
I think you’re right, Bill. If the drive is too long, I know people who fly in and out of Grand Forks, ND and then drive across the border (avoids the passport issue)… only a 2-hour drive that way. You could car-pool from Grand Forks!
It is silliness about the passports, though. We’re planning a US trip around Christmas, and since we’ll be south over January 1st, we’ll be needing passports as well. Mine and my wife’s expired years ago, and it’ll be first-time issue for our kids. I hate to think of the paperwork, but we’ll need to get started now to avoid headaches at the last minute.
Hey, if you’re anywhere between here and California (or a short side-trip) maybe we’ll come and visit you!