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Purpose

Missio Center works with judicatories across North America providing mission development training, missio events and clergy conferences, church planting bootcamps, each of which can be focused to explore various topics in progressive, emerging and contextual mission and ‘Fresh Expressions’ of church (on site in your judicatory).

Missio Center hosts mission development training course for clergy and lay leaders and a pioneer missioner/church and ministry planter training bootcamp course onsite in our base city of Portland, Oregon and alternately we will lead a group to participate in the international pioneers gathering in the UK (next in 2013).

Staff

Karen Ward, Curator, All Souls, PDX

Karen M. Ward (Director and Missioner). Karen is an ordained Episcopal priest, emerging church planter and the founding Vicar of Church of the Apostles, Seattle. Having moved to Portland, Oregon, in late 2011, Karen started Missio Center, and small, neo monastic ‘Fresh Expression’ ministry called All Souls, PDX, also known as PopUp Church. Karen is a frequent speaker and lecturer on mission in emerging culture, working with mainline judicatories and seminaries across North America, Canada and the UK. Karen is also the cofounder of Episcopal Village and the founder of Anglimergent

Jon Myers, Curator, Bekon Collective, Seattle

Jon Myers (Associate Director and Missioner) Jon is a postulant for Holy Orders in the Diocese of Olympia WA. Jon is the curator of Bekon Collective in Seattle, WA, an intentional, neo monastic community in the south Seattle neighborhood of Beacon Hill. Jon has a Master of Divinity degree from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. Jon is also the cofounder of Episcopal Village.