<html><head><style>div{font: normal 22px Verdana, Arial, sans-serif}</style><style>.contenedor{overflow-wrap:break-word;}</style></head><body><div><font face="MyriadPro-Semibold"><span style="font-size: 22px;">This topic recalls how I got involved in RS1. It was a blast of cold water in my face and awoke a set of values I did not know I had. </span></font><div><font face="MyriadPro-Semibold"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Thank you for laying out the history of those years. </span></font></div><div><font face="MyriadPro-Semibold"><span style="font-size: 22px;">My question today- around me the church hardly exists. It is like they </span></font></div><div><font face="MyriadPro-Semibold"><span style="font-size: 22px;">have 1) given up or 2) do not know how to change or 3) it is no longer relevant. </span></font></div><div><font face="MyriadPro-Semibold"><span style="font-size: 22px;">I really am interested in this "new/old" dialogue. </span></font></div><div><font face="MyriadPro-Semibold"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Now it feels like I am a child pressing my face against the windowpane to see</span></font></div><div><font face="MyriadPro-Semibold"><span style="font-size: 22px;">what is going on out there! My oh my.</span></font></div><div><font face="MyriadPro-Semibold"><span style="font-size: 22px;"> </span></font><br><br><br><br>---------- Original message ----------<br><br>From: dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<br>Date: Fri Oct 22 08:52:13 CDT 2021<br>Subject: Re: [Dialogue] [Oe List ...] A question about the distant past<br>To: oe@lists.wedgeblade.net;<br><br><br><br class=""><div>There are many documents in the Global Archives (in both Spirit Movement and Social Change Collections) that are resources to interpret the decisions made in the 1960s and 1970s about the work of the Institutes in caring for the local church: <a href="https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/spiritmovement/local-church-experiment/" class="">https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/spiritmovement/local-church-experiment/</a>. One of the early documents states the Local Church Experiment was a six-year project from 1970-1976. Each Global Research Assembly during those six years had task forces that worked on each stage of the experiment.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>You may have other documents in your files to add to this dialogue. If you do, scan them and send them to me as a PDF (or send them as hard copies to the ICA in Chicago) to be added to the Archives. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Peace,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Karen Snyder</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 21, 2021, at 1:21 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">What was the analysis and strategy that led to “the renewal of the local church for the sake of the world”??<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think there was one, but time wears away memories or, at least, hides them</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyone??<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt;" class="">Jim Wiegel</span><br class=""><div class=""><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“A revolution is on the horizon: a wholesale transformation of the world economy and the way people live.” Fred Krupp</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class="">_______________________________________________<br>Dialogue mailing list<br>Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<br>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net<br></div></div></div></body></html>