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Verlon Fosner

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Verlon Fosner

Dr. Verlon Fosner leads an innovative congregation in Seattle Washington since 1999. In the last decade the congregation transitioned from a traditional proclamation church into a multi-site Dinner Church called Community Dinners (www.CommunityDinners.com). In this decade when more US churches are declining than thriving, Verlon sensed that a different way of doing church was needed for their 100-year old Seattle congregation. After a long season of trial and error (and mostly error), their hearts became stirred by the manner of church that was practiced during the Apostolic Era.

In 2008, they opened up their first Dinner Church in a sore neighborhood some blocks south of their church campus, and immediately the room began to fill up with more never-been-churched people than they had seen in years. Soon they were opening up one after another throughout Seattle neighborhoods on different nights of the week, and the results were the same as the first one. They now pour into numerous neighborhoods throughout their city each week with a simple idea – that Jesus still wants to have dinner with sinners and wants his church to set the table.

It soon became obvious that they were not the only ones who needed a new way of doing church. So in 2014, so they founded coaching network centered on Jesus’ dinner table theology (www.DinnerChurch.Com). Presently, Verlon offers more than half of his time to help leaders throughout the country look at their cities and neighborhoods with new eyes.

In 2016, Verlon joined the Fresh Expression US leadership team and began offering sequential day-conferences (Encounters, Pre-Launches, and Post-Launches), and started hosting ‘Immersions’ and ‘Multipliers Immersions’ in Seattle and at their home, which enables several leaders at a time to observe Dinner Churches in action commingled with training conversations over a three-day period.

In 2019 Verlon founded the Dinner Church School of Leadership in Seattle which offers online Graduate-Level education for those pursuing a deep understanding of the Table Theology and Ecclesiology.

Verlon holds a Doctorate of Ministry degree from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, and has written several books: Dinner Church, Dinner Church Handbook, Welcome to Dinner, Church (which has a nine-week companion video series to be used as a discussion guide), Trowel & Sword (which reveals prayer-practices needed for the frontlines of evangelism), and Story Priority (which refocuses leaders on the power of the 468 Jesus Stories) . All of these resources are to help leaders and congregations learn how to work with Jesus at one of His dinner tables.

Verlon has been married to Melodee for 45 years, and together they have three adult children, nine grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and a multitude of grand-dogs.

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Story Priority (Paperback)

How to Change Lives Using the 468 Jesus Narratives

The first apostles relied on different spiritual content than we practice.

They were laser focused on the life and stories of Jesus.

While we have gleaned the grand purposes of Jesus' life in our teachings, the first followers benefitted from something else: the small details. The minutiae of his life talked louder to them than it does to us. Jesus' stories consumed them and flowed into their conversations, preaching, evangelism, and discipleship.

Such an emphasis on story encompassed both what he taught and lived--all of which forms the earliest definition of the critical word of proclamation: ‘kerygma’.  

If we the church are to regain the power of the gospel, the potential of the earliest disciples, and the ability to garner the attention of a secular world, we would be wise to recapture the Jesus Stories: the original “way” of Jesus.

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