“For the first time, I’m seeing the value of “checking in”.”

Apprenticeship Rhythms One and Three: The Weekly Assignments and Daily Forum Posts The Assignments in Week Eight focus on the simple but powerful idea that “church flows from listening”. Below is the forum post of one member of the Apprenticeship. Below that is my response to his post. (You can see how the online forum […]

“My 6 yr old is learning how to hear the Holy Spirit.”

Apprenticeship Rhythms One and Two: Weekly Learning Assignments and CO2 (or CO3) Here’s another wonderful report of a household (with young children) functioning as a church. John “(The assignments in) Week 7 was awesome! We use sashet here at home with our 6 year old boy and 2 year old girl. Helps them identify emotions […]

Family flows from listening

Apprenticeship Rhythms One and Two: Weekly Learning Assignments and CO2 (or CO3) The Apprenticeship is twelve weeks long and every week, members receive a new chapter in our eWorkbook. Each chapter has three Learning Assignments. This week, the focus is on family flowing from listening. See below for another example of a home functioning as […]

14 year old prefers house church

Apprenticeship rhythm Number Two: CO2 (Church of Two) The rhythms of a CO2 (checking in with each other and listening to God together) overflow very naturally into family life and into house churches. Below are two examples of this. The first is a member of the Apprenticeship posting on his cohort’s forum. Notice how delighted […]

My heart feels connect to you and we’ve never even met!”

The LK10 Apprenticeship requires a commitment to six rhythms. Third rhythm: Check in daily on your cohort’s online forum. (“Give me 10 minutes a day.”) Many people in the Apprenticeship have been surprised to see the level of community that has developed in each of our seven online communities (using either Facebook or Ning groups). […]

“A powerfully affirming daily routine”

Of course, we mean something different by CO2 than when the term is used in the environmental sense. The CO2 (church of two) is one of the six rhythms of the LK10 Apprenticeship. At first, it’s sometimes challenging to begin this as an every day rhythm. But, over and over, once people find that rhythm, […]

“I am amazed how we have church on the phone!”

One of the six rhythms of the Apprenticeship is a conference call every two weeks with your cohort. Early on we wondered if a virtual community (phone, online forum, etc) could really become community. What we have discovered is that it really works! As people are faithful to engage all six of the rhythms, genuine […]

The Apprenticeship in Kenya

Many of the members of the Apprenticeship have chosen their spouses as their CO2 partners. The result has been numerous postings on the cohort forums about transformed marriages. Below is a posting from a church planter in Kenya who is part of the African Cohort. “I’m checking in this morning scared, Its planting season and […]

Writing on through the tears

Each week in the Apprenticeship, there are four Learning Assignments. These Assignments involve watching a video or reading a short article and then dialoguing with the Lord about the content. Then, people post what they heard on their cohort’s online forum. Often these conversations with the Lord are quite powerful. Here’s one example… “Checking in […]

CO2 virus spreading around the world

Margie James, who is part of the Australian Cohort in the LK10 Apprenticeship, just returned from India where she and her husband attended the Global Summit on Market Ministries. (Speakers included Victor Choudrie, Tony Dale and Wolfgang Simson.) Margie was delighted to find the CO2 “virus” spreading there in India. Here’s her report… “…let me […]