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We do this “turbo” church planting conference twice a year--we have this big one in May (200+)--but then these two smaller ones (20) that are condensed and initially were designed to train guys to plant churches who couldn’t come in May. I’ve come to really like them. There aren’t as many guys and you can talk a lot more and question a lot more. We’re in the middle of one right now and it’s so cool to see the changing face of church planting here in the States. Still not nearly enough--but a lot more non-anglos getting into the scene. At this one, we have 3 Vietnamese, 1 Chinese, 1 Korean, 7 Latin Americans--the rest anglos. Ed Stetzer is one of the speakers and is doing a knockout job. Still, the questions of the future church are framed by anglos and many out of our Western emerging church genres. I don’t think it will be much longer before the West is forced to wake up and listen to the global non-western conversation--but I still wonder when the Western church does wake up how much of what has been said will be totally irrelevant to everyone?