Emerging Africa

Yesterday I visited Nieu Communities and Roger Saner suggested a Pretoria Christian bloggers gathering. It struck me as a good idea -- it would be nice to meet face to face as well as reading each other's blogs. Perhaps we could widen it to Tshwane, to include people from places like Akasia, Soshanguve and Centurion.

Does anyone else in the area think it's a good idea? And if so when and where?

We could meet at someone's house, or for coffee at a coffee shop somewhere (Greenfields in Hatfield is a wireless hotspot, in case anyone can't bear the thought of being unplugged for an hour or two).

Today a group of 50 bloggers are blogging about the term "missional". A few South Africans are participating, and my contribution (with links to the others) may be found here.

In calling for a missional synchroblog Rick Meigs says:

Over the last couple of weeks there have been some discussion on the fact that the "emerging conversation" in South Africa has been predominantly white.

Cobus van Wyngaard has blogged about this. Reggie Nel has responded. I have commented on this in my Khanya blog.

How many people will be blogging for human rights on Thursday (15 May 2008)?

If you haven't heard about this before, there's more info on my Khanya blog.