RCC @ ?

We have done a lot of talking about RCC having multiple locations and most of our talk has focused on Utah County. We want to get our next location further North and get that going, but there are some complexities with each location we still need to work out and a lot of equipment needs to be purchased. So this week as we were going through the list of members of RCC to move to inactive those who have moved away or have moved on to a different gathering we began to talk about RCC @ other places.

You see, there is one particular family that was an important part of what we're doing at RCC and after moving, they have looked for a gathering of believers to attend but were unable to find something that felt authentic to them. It wasn't for lack of trying, but just that nothing really met their needs and where they are on their journey. So we in leadership started talking about it. Do we really need to move people off the active member list just because they are no longer located in Utah? We constantly are talking about how our connection groups are the most important aspect of participating at RCC so what would it look like for people in another state to attend RCC via podcast (or even vodcast...stay tuned for more on that!) and meet together with other people in their community that are looking to experience church outside the traditional meeting to have a connection group? We're wondering if we should have somebody experienced in facilitating a connection group join in via Skype or other technology, but the internet has shrunken boundaries and the ability exists for us to start doing this.

Now there are a ton of questions that we just don't have the answer for yet. There are reservations in what we are doing and we want to be sensitive to peoples' needs for growth and meeting together with other followers of Christ, but we have adopted the saying everything is an experiment for what we're doing here at RCC and we are going to try this experiment out for a while and see what works and what doesn't and start making refinements.

I realize there are blog readers from not just around the US but around the world and I'd love to hear input from you. Whether or not you want to be a part of the experiment, I would like to hear how it may look or seem to you from your own perspective.

tom@rockcanyon.org