Last night I spent a couple of hours perusing links from a hitlist of results from searching Church of the Saviour as a phrase and Washington or Gordon Cosby as the “any of these words” parameter.

I remain hopeful that I can help them become a “Portal site” with blogs, forums, RSS Feeds, and other Web goodies that would help them ride some of the advances in Social Software to help get their story out, and help be a resource to the rather large following they have spread out over the globe.

I think of Dayspring, (their retreat Center) and Wellspring (the offshoot of Dayspring that focuses on resourcing the Church at large, offering “conferences and retreats” that help inquiring Churches to explore what makes Church of the Saviour unique;; in other words, they explore what COS has discovered and IS discovering about WHAT IS CHURCH. Wellspring represents a mission that I think forms the “source” of a project to use the Web to extend that same work of helping Churches explore the questions they have been living and help these Churches to ask their own questions.

COS has SO MANY resources. Their “library” that they have amaseed over these 55 years of their existence represents a collection of countercultural challenges that many Churches miss. It is of such frustration to me that many of these books and resources are NOT found in many “Christian Book Stores”. It is of great loss to the Church that they miss out on many of the resources that have been so , well, “resourceful” to a community which has become a model for many.