Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community

While praying for his community on the Island of Iona, the Celtic monk St. Columba described his experience as a thin place- a location where heaven and earth seemed only thinly separated.In the same way, God's kingdom is being realized here on earth with stories of restoration and redemption. Our God moved into the neighborhood, seeking to invite us into his story of reconciliation, and commission us to missionally engage our neighborhoods with the good news of the kingdom.Joining the concepts of monasticism and mission, author Jon Huckins will walk you through six postures of missional formation: listening, submerging, inviting, contending, imagining, and entrusting. As you begin to employ these postures, become apprentices of Jesus who are committed to living in and experiencing the thin places.Through Thin Places, create a fertile soil to commune with God, live in deep community with others, and extend the good news of the kingdom in your local contexts.

Jon Huckins lives in San Diego and is on staff with NieuCommunities, a collective of missional church communities who foster leadership and community development. After much international travel and study in the Middle East, Jon focuses much of his writing and speaking on ethics and social advocacy. He has a Master s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and writes for numerous publications including Red Letter Christians, Burnside Writer s Collective and his book Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling.

Rob Yackley lives in San Diego and is the lead architect and director of NieuCommunities. Rob has helped birth and lead missional communities in over a dozen countries and mentors young missional leaders in diverse cultural settings across the globe. He holds a Masters of Leadership and Theology from Talbot Seminary, but has learned the most important things by trying to follow Jesus with people he loves.