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A new community is forming….

There is so much we have yet to determine*, but this will be a community of:

Go to The Origins Projects website for more details and to sign up.

Don’t you just love the fall! Here are some highlights:

Kids in Pajamas

Trevi Jumping Rope

Trevi Looking in a Mirror as Designed by Trevi

Caleb’s Drum Lessons

Join us on Monday, November 3rd at 1pm (Pacific Standard Time) for a conversation with Mark Batterson (author of Wild Goose Chase and lead pastor at National Community Church in Washington, D.C.).

You can register here.

The call is free and feel free to encourage those you know to participate as well.

To here the previous conversation with Erwin McManus or the Teleseminars about “Catalyzing Community,” “Moving People from Brokenness to Wholeness,” and “Reaching Others and Leading Leaders” go here.

Hope you can join me at any of the following events! Thanks for letting your friends in these areas know too!

Get all the details at www.ericbryant.org/schedule!

NOVEMBER 4-6: Golden Gate Seminary
San Francisco, CA

NOVEMBER 10: Northwest Baptist Convention
Portland, OR
*For the Church Planters’ Dinner with me contact cameron@nwbaptist.org asap. Cost $10. Limited space!

NOVEMBER 11: Bethel University and Bethel Seminary
St. Paul, MN

JANUARY 8-10, 2009: The Origins Project
Eimeldengein, Germany

JANUARY 30: BreakForth Canada
Alberta, Canada

I would love to connect with you personally on Wednesday, September 10th at 10am (Pacific Standard Time) in our next Teleseminar.The topic: “Moving People from Brokenness to Wholeness” - based on Uprising (a.k.a. The Character Matrix) We’ll also interact, and I’ll try to answer as many of your questions as I can. To Register, email your name and location to: teleseminar@ericbryant.org. A reply will be sent to you via email with call details and dial in instructions. A recording of the call will be made available 48 hours after the live call is complete.If you have specific questions you would like to ask during the call, please email those to eric@ericbryant.org.Be sure to click the “Share This” icon below and invite a friend to join in on this call as well.You can listen to recordings from previous teleseminars here.

LOSING LEADERSHIP At one point in their history, God was so upset with the people of Israel that he brought radical punishment in order to bring them back to Himself. What was this radical punishment? God was going to take away the most essential elements of life - food, water, and leadership.”See now, the Lord Almighty is about to take from Jersualem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water, the hero and warrior, the judge and prophet, the soothsayer and elder, the captain of fifty and man of rank, the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.” Isaiah 3:1-3Shocking, huh?!People want to be well fed and well led. Without effective leadership chaos ensues, people are oppressed, conflict and corruption emerge (see Isaiah 3:4-5). Of course, we can all list examples of times when we experienced the abuses of poor or even ungodly leadership, but have you ever experienced God-inspiring leadership? What made this leader so special and effective?If God’s punishment includes the removal of leadership, it seems to me that we can say God’s blessing means the installation of effective leadership.Where can we step up to lead and bring blessing to others needing and wanting (perhaps even praying) for someone to follow?Finally, of the types of leaders listed in Isaiah 3, which type of leader is most commmon in our churches or in the business world?

Our summer ended with a fantastic trip to the Big Island of Hawaii! We had a great time in Kona swimming, reading, hiking, eating (especially kalua pork and shaved ice), snorkeling, volcano watching, stargazing, spending time with our friends at Cornerstone, and relaxing in general. Here are some of the best pics (of the 300 we took):

I just sent out my free email newsletter with a link to a picture of a Cheeto that looks like Jesus and free resources. Sign up at www.ericbryant.org!

I was surprised to find out I was included in an incredibly cool new website called

Here’s their description:

“We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. We’ve grouped these collections — “aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, we display the headlines of the latest stories from dozens of sites and blogs. You can think of an Alltop site as a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet.”

Alltop: Modern Church (I am the ninth one down on the left just above Catalyst).

I look forward to exploring the other Alltop sites about Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Books, Music, News, Mixed Martial Arts, and Humor.

I have some great pics I have yet to post from our fun summer. Here are some of the highlights!

TREVI’S KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION

CALEB, MY DAD, AND CALEB’S FIRST FISH!

TREVI’S BAPTISM DAY FLOWERS

CALEB’S SUMMER HAIRCUT (from long to Jewish orthdox to Joe Dirt mullet to short)

CALEB JUMPS WHILE TREVI HAS SECOND THOUGHTS