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tim k. snyder [the netzer co-op]
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iphone pics from Tim Snyder taken at the Annual Gathering last month!
Thanks Jason,
Welcome to the community and please feel free to continue to contribute to the blog here or to the discussion forums. Let me know if I can serve you in anyway.
tim
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tim snyder, facilitator
luthermergent.org
Profile Information
- Hometown:
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- About Me:
- Hi. I'm Tim, glad we "met."
Born in Texas and grew up around the South. I've been apart of Luthermergent since the early days around 2006 and before that with Emerging Leaders Network. In 2007 I was a co-founder at The Netzer Co-Op, an emerging community of the emerging generate in Austin, Texas. A graduate of Texas Lutheran University, I am now a graduate student at Luther Seminary. I'm the managing editor of GENERATE Magazine and serving on the coordinating group of Emergent Village.
Currently I and one of two Facilitators of Luthermergent, so if you're interested in all things related to grassroots organizing in communities of practice, we should talk.
- Personal Website:
- http://www.curatingthejourney.org
- Prefered Network (link to your facebook, myspace, blogger profile):
- http://facebook.com/tksnyder
- AIM, MSN, Skype, GTalk, etc:
- smalltownabbot (aim)
tksnyder (skype & GChat)
- Who am I? (Many ways to answer this -- be as creative as you want, or not.)
- My name is Tim Snyder and I'm a co-founder and former curator of The Netzer Co-Op (Austin, Texas). I graduated from Texas Lutheran University and now I am a graduate student at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.
I'm originally from New Orleans, LA and I've been shaped much growing up in a Lutheran congregation that was methodologically innovative and yet theologically "normal". This grew me up to a certain point and I'm asking other questions now.
I am the son of Rob, a CFO of a Catholic Hospital in Washington DC. - He gave me my humor. And I'm the son of Marsha, a mother of 4 boys who is amazingly diverse in her wanderings - perhaps that stems from growing up in various countries abroad.
I am the brother of Kevin, Andrew, and Colin - Kevin is in Sports Management, Andrew is a grad student in International Affairs, and Colin is 9yrs old is into Tae Kwan Do.
I am the grandson of Max and Mary - life-long Lutherans and then Bill & Elwanda - they're spiritually curious and Papa once told be that church was Bullshit. I am actually very close to him, despite that...
- How did I get into "emerging ministry"?
- My early years in youth leadership was weird cause I was 17 years old hanging out with Bishops and churchwide folk (no offense Ruben) and learning a lot about my church and yet having zero friends (or grandpas) that connected with any of it...my years in Churchwide ministry (BLYO & ELCA Church Council for any of you weirdos who are into that kind of thing). I dove into the conversation as I was disoriented and disenfranchised from my experiences in youth leadership. One day I realized in the midst of a conversation about the "emerging church" and I was talking about my friends, my community, my values and my friend was just hypothetically interested...so I realized that day that I was part of this thing.
- Say a little bit about the community you share life with...
- Wow - what a loaded question. The Netzer Co-Op emerged partially out of a vision / community called Intermission. It existed as a group of young adults on a college campus - at Ruben's encouragement we thought about a wide community and we begun engaging something bigger than we were ever prepared for. It is really messy to do things in community. Netzers is commited to leadership "in community", meaning we have a monastic community which really act as stewards. As messy as things get we sure are surprised that God keeps inviting us into new, innovative and exciting things. We worship once a month as a "Co-Op" (about 15-20 friends). We are running something called "Likewise Experiments" - we're building relationships with the Austin homeless community - feeding them, sharing our time with them, listening and learning a lot. We have a community house where some of our monastics live together. We're about to open an art gallery/music room called The Living Room.
- What are the most pressing questions (both theological and practical) you and your community have?
- Our community is hoping to me theologically imaginative & authentic to who we are...so we struggle with:
What if there is more Kingdom work (God active in the world) "out there" - meaning outside the church that "in here" meaning in the church? What is God up to around here, and how can we join in...
When we're operating out of the above question, how do we organize ourself to be good stewards of people and resources? (ex: do we may ministers? why or why not? - how does that complicate things)
How do we relate to the ELCA / or any other established institutional church?
Most of us are young adults (although that is not our intent or purpose or "ministry field") - and so we're asking questions about what does it mean to be a person of faith (of the Gospel) at a cross-section of life where we can make choices to resist this "American Dream" - this ridiculous system which Walter Bruggemann calls "a dominant script of therapeutic, technological, militaristic consumerism?"
THE DISONANCE RESOLVES
reflect | discern | surrender
the dissonance resolves
the tension builds
from the paradox that I am
why does ambiguity make wonder
why does confusion make me question
oh God for the dissonance to resolve
reflect. discern. surrender.
what else is there to do...
the grace resolves
the dissonance that I am
how could my brokenness complete me
how could my insufficiency be enough
oh the scandal as the dissonance resolves
my soul proclaims your greatest oh God and my spirit rejoices in you
you have looked with love on your servant here
and blessed me [any ways]
the dissonance resolves
the tension builds
from the paradox that I am
why does ambiguity make wonder
why does confusion make me question
oh God for the dissonance to resolve
reflect. discern. surrender.
what else is there to do...
the grace resolves
the dissonance that I am
how could my brokenness complete me
how could my insufficiency be enough
oh the scandal as the dissonance resolves
my soul proclaims your greatest oh God and my spirit rejoices in you
you have looked with love on your servant here
and blessed me [any ways]
Tim K. Snyder's Photos
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 3:08am on October 28, 2008,
ray said… - Hey Tim,
I believe I know a former Netzer friend of yours, Jeff B. who is here at Wartburg with me now. Also a huge fan of Aaron Strumpel. :-) Blessings in your ministry!
Ray
- At 12:10am on September 11, 2007,
Thomas Knoll said… - what times?
(after 6 would be better for me, if possible)
- At 4:42pm on September 10, 2007,
Thomas Knoll said…
- Hey, we need to talk.
Some fun stuff happened today.
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