The first Skypecast for Asian American Emergents is tonight! Less than 7 hours away at 10:00pm Eastern / 7:00pm Pacific. This is our introductory meeting for Asian American Christians and the Emergent Church Movement: dial-in via Skype. I hope my home DSL will stay live and connected. [update: we had a time sync glitch; dial-in to the backup skypecast if needed, or Skype me at djchuang for current info]
(Pastor of North Point) Andy Stanley showed up at a recent Emergent cohort in Atlanta. I still get click-thrus from the most popular pomomusings blog comment thread where Andy first showed up in the blogosphere. Maybe one day a megachurch pastor might show up on the occasionally-scheduled Asian American Emergents skypecast.
[post-call wrap-up]
We pulled it off on the backup skypecast: David Park (Atlanta), Ben Pun (Houston), Peter Ong (Syracuse), and myself (metro DC) chatted for an hour. We had a round of introductions. Conversation mostly hovered around the intergenerational immigrant Asian church’s differing perspectives on authenticity. We didn’t delve into too much Emergent stuff.
All agreed it was an enjoyable time and we’ll do this in a month for whoever can make it, instead of waiting 3 months. Next skypecast will be Sunday, August 27th. Time TBD. Please join us!
Good first call…Looks like we’ll have a lot to talk about. Good moderation. Perhaps we could try to focus on a particular aspect per call which may serve to direct the conversation and we could read up on it and come better prepared. But it was a great start. Looking forward to these calls in the future…
hey dj thanks for hosting the skypecast and I agree with david that if we can have a topic of discussion would be great…just three questions for our consideration should be good enough for an hour. thanks again dj, you are the networker of choice!
Hey all . . . thanks to DJ for bailing out this “Double-Booker” from SF! I am bummed to have missed what seems like some good conversations. I can’t make a 8/27 call so someone else will need to host that date.
Good times. Looking forward to the next one.
How did this first SKYPECast go?? We are interested in using the technology in Thailand to link churches and groups together. Have heard some about Skype, however, not a lot of information re useability, calarity, etc. Did you use video and voice?
Thanks
Dave
Fuller Theological Seminary
MAGL program
Dave,
The first Skypecast went very well! We only used voice, so it was very similar to a conference call by phone, but with Skype, it’s all free. Participants do need to have a skype-compatible headset for best audio quality, and then it’s all good to go!
I do recommend doing a test run, so that every participant knows they can use Skype and audio quality is good. (for example, it took me almost a month of troubleshooting to get Skype and my home DSL to get along.)
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