Alpha to Beta — Henry Williams

Keith Miraldi, Dave Runion and I are in CA for the wrap up of the alpha phase of the Monvee project and the launching of the beta phase. The Monvee people are footing the bill for this trip. :-) Monvee is a spiritual formation approach and online based-program that's in the development stage. (I wrote about Monvee her e or go to Monvee.) We have been one of twenty-five churches in the alpha phase that included Saddleback and Menlo Park (where John Ortberg now pastors). On election day about twenty of our staff spent the day with the Monvee team on our stie as part of the alpha, development phase.

Ortberg is one of our speakers here and Dallas Willard will be with us too. They are two of my favorite writers, and Willard is one of the most recognized voices in the world on spiritual formation. So this is quite a treat, and it's exciting to be a part of all this from the early stages. The roll out date is this fall, if all goes as planned, so we'll be launching it at Five Oaks at that time.

Anyway, here's the view from Keith and Dave's room at the hotel (mine faces a parking lot). Unfortunately, we're inside except for breaks just about the whole time we're here. John Ortberg is the one in the middle in the last picture below. In that same picture is Eric Parks, the guy who came up with the whole Monvee idea and is leading the development of it.
Keith Miraldi, Dave Runion and I are in CA for the wrap up of the alpha phase of the Monvee project and the launching of the beta phase. The Monvee people are footing the bill for this trip. :-) Monvee is a spiritual formation approach and online based-program that's in the development stage. (I wrote about Monvee here or go to Monvee.) We have been one of twenty-five churches in the alpha phase that included Saddleback and Menlo Park (where John Ortberg now pastors). On election day about twenty of our staff spent the day with the Monvee team on our stie as part of the alpha, development phase.