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New Wineskins
for Global Mission 2013
(Sooner than you think!)
Ridgecrest Conference Center
Western North Carolina
(Near Asheville, NC)

"Pray Today For..."

Rwanda
  • Caleb and Louise King; rebuilding Shyira Hospital, hydroelectric project.
  • Ted and K-Ellen Cleary; 100 kids at Imbabazi Orphanage, funds for new primary school.
  • Martha Vetter; teaching at a Christian school in NC, plans to return to Rwanda next year, ease in many transitions.
Workshops
Title Description Location When
Mobilizing and equipping a church for hands-on ministry The Great Commission calls each Christian to action in the field of missions, but In churches unacquainted with world missions, not everyone realizes that.With a carefully executed step-by-step process over time, the power of God canmove people into hands-on world outreach. Through personal antidotes, experience driven lessons, and open discussion, learn how to create a flow of ideas, a change in mindset, and be a catalyst for your church into the flow of missions.
With: Sheryl Curbow Shaw
Friday
Maximize mission impact: mobilize an effective missions committee How can your church make a difference globally? This workshop will give you the tools and direction to form (or re-form) a missions committee that thinks strategically and acts effectively. Discover practical steps for focusing your church's resources and calling people into sacrificial giving and service.
With: The Revs. Jim and Shari Hobby
Saturday
How to lead your church across the street and around the world We train people to light candles, read the Scriptures, and serve the Eucharist. Why not train parish mission leaders to effectively lead your parish in the strategic investment of a significant portion of your church budget and the mobilization of your whole congregation for global mission? Combining instruction on the biblical, historical, cultural, strategic and partnership aspects of mission with hands-on experience, this AGMP parish mission leaders training program has been used widely in the Diocese of Ft. Worth and can be implemented in your area.
With: Lollie Twyman, The Rev. Ray Howard
Saturday
The prayer-driven church Prayer is at the heart of God's plan to reach the nations. How can we mobilize our congregation to pray? This workshop will help us to motivate and equip God's people to engage in fervent intercession for our church, our community and the world.
With: The Rt. Rev. John Guernsey
Friday
Mission involvement: a cornerstone of childrens ministry Missions should not be an add on for Christian education but an integral element of discipleship. Explore various methods and resources for involving your parish's children in missions and learning about unreached people groups. We will discuss introducing children to historic Anglican missionaries like Bishop Channing Moore Williams along with Anglican missionaries today!
With: Cynthia Macleay Campbell
Saturday
Developing a global vison in your youth ministry Examine effective techniques for developing kids into world Christians, supporting missions, praying, videos, activities, games, using short-term missions for maximum impact, even to the world's unreached people groups!
With: The Rev. Steven Tighe, The Rev. Whis Hays
Friday
Strengthen your parish's mission program through short-terms When short-termers go as servants and learners, they come back changed. Good preparation and follow-up are keys to short-term missions being used by God to change individuals and congregations. Dialogue on proven strategies for using short-term missions to build your church missions program.
With: The Rev. Dan Klooster
Saturday
Anglican missionary traditions For almost three hundred years, orthodox Anglicans have responded to the Great Commission. Evangelicals, AngloCatholics and Charismatics alike have recognized the missionary call to "make disciples of all nations." Yet each movement has developed its own distinctive emphases, its own distinctive ways of calling the nations into God's Kingdom. Come hear about the three biblical traditions in Anglican mission history. See if their stories speak to you about your calling to serve the mission of the Kingdom.
With: The Rev. Dr. Les Fairfield
Friday
Fresh Expressions: church plants in England, yesterday and today Fresh Expressions is a major church planting movement that began in the Church of England in the late 1980s. In such a secular culture, Christianity seemed increasingly marginal to everyday life, and traditional Anglican ways of Church were called into question. Now many challenges have been met, with 90% of Anglican church plants succeeding in the U.K. We have some important lessons to learn on our side of the pond! Case studies from the history of the English Church will illustrate that a mission-shaped church is focused on God as Father, Son, and Spirit and is incarnational, transformational, disciple-making, and relational. This workshop will illustrate how these values persisted in history and in a dazzling variety of new patterns of Christian community and witness.
With: Dr. Phil Harrold
Saturday
Training teams that promote life-changing relationships What's the point of short-term missions if your team isn't trained before they go? What role does evangelism play in a Christian short-term ministry? Good training is an integral part of every successful short-term mission. Training content and implementation will be discussed. SAMS missionaries will share how well trained teams can further the work of missionaries in the field while poorly trained teams actually become obstacles!
With: Lynn Bouterse & SAMS Missionaries
Friday
Personal evangelism One of the greatest of all joys is leading someone to the Lord. However many of us struggle with personal evangelism and feel uncomfortable about it and unskilled in doing it. As secularism rises the challenge of personal evangelism will increase, but so will the need for it. This workshop will lay out the challenges and offer practical suggestions for how to address them, especially looking at ways to make the call to personal conversion in worship services and at the idea of using personalized gospel tracts. It is intended to help us all find ways of engaging in this vital ministry.
With: The Very Rev. Justyn Terry
Friday
Food for the body and soul-creating creative outreach We will share some of the ways we have used food, music and the arts in different local settings, large and small, to help non-Christians encounter the Lord and interact with the Good News on more than just a purely intellectual level. We want to get your creative juices flowing, then help you consider how you can use the particular gifts and people God has placed in your church for outreach and evangelism in your own situation, including vbs, outside events and services and encourage you to actually do it!
With: Jon and Sarah Blamire
Saturday
Is God sending me? Have you ever considered being sent on mission? How can you get there from here? We will explore discerning God's call to mission and look at practical ways to work out that calling through spiritual formation, relationships in the faith community, cultural experiences and internships. Helpful if you desire to serve the Lord cross-culturally and when you are in the role of helping others discern calls.
With: Stewart Wicker
Saturday
Jubilee ministry: using your retired years for mission Many people retire and wonder what to do. The specter of no work, house painting ad nauseam, golf and bridge - that can all change. Ministry in retirement and on the mission field can he hugely rewarding and a great blessing. There are challenges and pitfalls, not the least may be learning another language, a new culture and some humility. Your pension may give a huge boost to financial stability. Your lifetime in church can give a massive foundation of prayer partners and supporters. What can match the joy of serving the Lord as a missionary? We who are retired have time, energy and several years of active ministry before us. Come and explore the possibilities.
With: Ian and Polly Montgomery
Friday
Keys to heart and mind: language learning, and Bible translation The first hurdle in communicating across cultural boundaries is often learning a new language. But learning someone else's heart language is not just an obstacle - it's actually a prime way to express an appreciation for another culture and build friendships. And for any church to be strong, the people must have God's Word in their own language. About 3000 language groups today do not know that God speaks their language and do not have one verse of the Bible in their language. What challenges and opportunities face us in language learning and in Bible translation and literacy in the world today?
With: The Rev. Samuel Galuak Marial, Sharon Steinmiller
Saturday
Through their eyes Jesus' mission strategy was to be incarnational. If we are to do likewise and have an incarnational ministry to people who are different from us, then understanding where they come from is a necessary first step. How does a Muslim person's view of us affect how we reach out to them? How do we become incarnate into an African society that is so poor that we will probably never really fit? This workshop will explore the way in which honest self reflection and challenging our own assumptions can make us better missionaries and more like Jesus.
With: TBD
Saturday
Faith lessons from the field: The Holy Spirit and mission The most effective mission, either short-term or long-term, depends on the effective work of God's Holy Spirit. Mission is about God's will, not ours. Learn practical ways to lean on the Holy Spirit as he leads, gives discernment, protects, anoints, comforts, provides for and empowers those he calls.
With: Glen Petta, Edwina Thomas
Friday
Power evangelism Jesus' ministry was an oscillation between words and works. 77% of His works were healings; 80% of the healings in the Gospels and Acts had an evangelistic setting or result. This workshop will explore ways to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, display His power, and expect evangelistic results (1 Cor. 2:1, 4).
With: The Rev. Mike Flynn
Saturday
Preparing missionaries for spiritual warfare This workshop will examine the need for understanding spiritual warfare, means of identifying it in its various forms, dealing with it in the power of the Lord, and how to be culturally sensitive when helping people deal with spiritual warfare in new cultural settings,?both long?and short term.
With: The Rev. Mike Flynn, Ray Howard
Friday
This day we fight: the spiritual battle against Islamic imperialism Radical Islam is making headway in North America and Europe as the Muslim Brotherhood uses our freedom and democracy - and "tolerance", political correctness, and fear - against us to destroy Western civilization from within. Christians can counter this attack through spiritual warfare coming against blindness and deception, loving and praying Muslims into the Kingdom of God, and demanding honesty, justice, and reciprocity for people of all faiths. We will hear real-life examples of the Islamist agenda in action, individuals and communities standing up to the pressure and intimidation, testimonies of Muslim-background believers on how God's grace reached them and the importance of prayer for the Muslim world, and practical resources for taking on this challenge and mobilizing our churches.
With: Faith McDonnell
Friday
The first three years on the field: starting well An honest look at the surprises and challenges of life - for individuals, couples, and families - in missions that call for a plan to start healthy and well. Challenges to expect include health concerns, culture shock, relationship stress, limited results, financial concerns, and unexpected changes. What are common emotional reactions? How can mission candidates prepare? How can senders support their missionaries the first three years? Helpful for missions committees and candidates in building skills and resources to stay for the long-haul rather than calling it quits by the end of the first term.
With: The Rev. Loren and Linda Fox
Friday
Missionary care: what churches and missionaries need to know Dr. Bill Taylor found that 22,000 missionaries a year return home for preventable reasons. In a post-9/11 world, pastoral care and proactive, intentional cultivation of missionaries' spiritual lives are critical so they can stay in vital, fruitful cross-cultural ministry for as long as God has called them. Churches and missionaries will benefit by assessing missionaries' current needs and developing strategies to make growth, healing and wellness attainable goals for cross-cultural servants.
With: Derek and Dorothy Washington
Saturday
Reentry: challenges & blessings of transitioning home again Reentry is the often forgotten component of cross-cultural transition in a short or long-term mission experience. This workshop will address the reentry phenomenon, issues and practical suggestions on how to effectively return and integrate the mission vision and experience to life and the local church.
With: Leiton Chinn
Friday
Stars and altars The unmistakable signs of God's missionary activity in the world are all around us: the Magi found one of those signs in a star and followed it to Jesus. Paul found it in an altar to an unknown god and used it to preach the gospel. Hear Scripture and case studies from mission fields as diverse as Pakistan, Laos, and China to help you trace the fingerprints of God and His activity in missions.
With: The Rev. Kevin Higgins
Friday
Young professionals using their businessskills for the unreached Can young professionals really use their skills and work experience to expand God's kingdom into the lives of the least reached people?Come and combine your passion for gospel redemption andbusiness in an interactive format where we'll team up for tangible and exciting results.
With: Dr. Linda Christie
Saturday
Healing: the missing ingredient in frontier missions Healing has a large role in the New Testament and in the Anglican Communion, but is often overlooked as a missionary strategy. Yet from an animist Miao village in rural China, to the son of an Imam in Chad, we are always asked to pray for some illness or oppression which has inflicted the people. We do and often God heals them. Find out why and how this vital part of Jesus' ministry should be and can become a vital part of the missionary agenda and practice.
With: The Rev. Canon Pete & Dr. Shirleen Wait, PhD
Friday
Reaching people groups for Jesus Learn how God uses ordinary people to reach entire people groups in West Africa, North India, and S.E. Asia. From their diverse experience, the presenters will explain their strategy with concrete examples of evangelism and church planting and practical ways for local churches to get involved in reaching an entire people group for Jesus. This interactive workshop will be useful for anyone who is hungry for challenging, and sometimes dangerous, opportunities for mission!
With: Canon Kuan Kim Seng, Dr. Julian Linnell
Friday
The Gospel and Islam: power encounters and intercession The ministries of Jesus and the apostles included frequent examples of "power encounters." This workshop uses Scripture and field experience in the Muslim world to explore ways in which God continues to use power encounters - such as dreams, healings, and miracles - to confirm the Good News and communicate His love and mercy to Muslims.
With: The Rev. Kevin Higgins
Saturday
How in the world do I tell a Muslim about Jesus? (2PM only) We talk about reaching Muslims with the Gospel, but once we actually make a Muslim friend, what do we say? How do we share the Way, Truth and Life without offending or getting tangled in endless theological arguments? Come learn the basics of Islam, potential "landmines" to avoid in the early stages of sharing, and a simple method for engaging Muslims in spiritual conversation and pointing them toward Jesus.
With: TBD
Friday
At least to the Jew too?! Is it possible that God is finished with the Jewish People? May it never be! More Jewish People have come to faith in their Messiah, Yeshua (Hebrew for Jesus) in the last 100 years than in the previous 1900 years combined. Romans 11 is coming true before our very eyes and Israel is where the fruit is most apparent. Come and find out what the Lord is doing among his covenant people. CMJ speaks to over 20,000 Israeli's a year - and they come to us - without any advertising or marketing. God is surely at work!
With: The Rev. Aaron Eime and Linda Cohen
Saturday
IT for GC 21st century technology opens exciting new roads to "the ends of the earth" ... but how can churches, missionaries, evangelists, and agencies leverage Web 2.0 for maximum participation in the Great Commission? Websites, Skype, Twitter and the Ning thing ... confused already? To blog or not to blog? Social networking or social-not-working? Can we be high touch in a high tech world ... make the connections and stay connected? AND, what about security? This workshop will give an overview and introduction to current IT followed by a panel discussion addressing strategies, opportunities and pitfalls in the use of technology for missions and church planting.
With: TBD
Saturday
The uninvited next door: reaching internationals here God continues to bring the world to North America and his people continue to obey His command to "love the foreigner residing among you." Interact with leaders who began and developed a church-based ministry to internationals in a growing, culturally-diverse community over the last 26 years. The ministry began as an outreach to international students, but eventually became a blended ministry among international students, immigrants, and refugees. Our churches, campuses, and communities have a strategic form of global mission right on our doorstep!
With: Leiton Chinn, The Rev. David Case
Saturday
Engaging as Christians in a post-modern culture Explore the roots of Post-Modernism and see how Christians can take a neither hostile nor friendly position to this movement that has captured literature, art, film, architecture, and theology. Those who find Post-Modernism confusing will come away with a clearer understanding of this intellectual trend and begin to see how Jesus Christ might have been seen in his own day as remarkably "post-modern." How can we communicate the gospel effectively in a culture with "no absolutes?"
With: The Rev. Dr. Peter Moore
Friday
Opportunities and challenges in Europe - Spain and England (SPAIN 2PM, ENGLAND 3:45) Europe is the forgotten continent, becoming more secular and more Muslim every day - some cities in England have more mosques than churches. Unless present trends change, Europe will be majority Muslim in one or two generations. As unreached peoples from around the world migrate there, Europe is strategic for reaching the nations!
With: The Rev. John and Ninfa Dixon, The Rev. Shirley Morris, Bishop Henry Scriven
Saturday
Aligning with Jesus' heart for the poor How do our inclinations, attitudes, and responses to the poor line up with Jesus' love for the poor? What can we do about the discrepancies? How can we live more fully under the Lordship of Jesus in this particular area?
With: Steve Brightwell
Friday
Human trafficking and God's heart for justice More men, women, and children in our world today are held in slavery than during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade. This modern international trade of human beings, known as Human Trafficking, generates profits in excess of 12 billion dollars a year. What does scripture tell us about God's heart for issues of injustice? What are we, as Christians, called to do? Even if we wanted to, what difference can our churches and ministries make? Come look at answers to these questions and many more as we address the international humanitarian crisis in our world and focus on Cambodia as one example.
With: Summer Twyman
Saturday
The stranger in our midst: refugee ministry in North America This workshop will focus on ministry to refugees in North America, with a special focus on the Karen of Burma (Myanmar) and the Sudanese. We will discuss how churches have reached out to refugees, the refugee experience of culture shock and grief, and ways refugees have managed (or failed) to integrate into society and our churches. We will share resources and discuss opportunities for individuals and churches to reach out to the newcomers - Anglicans as well as unreached people groups - in our midst.
With: The Revs. Ed den Blaauwen, The Rev. Daryl Fenton, Grant LeMarquand, Abraham Nhial
Friday
Ministry to American Indians: 1) build relationships 2) return Ministry to American Indians requires more knowledge than just the basics for a short term mission trip. The culture is different, poverty is widespread, and health needs are great, but the Spirit is alive and well. Learn what is important to know before you go into an American Indian mission field. You don't just get into a van and go!
With: Michael Plenty Horse, Sherry Lucas
Friday
Ministry among the dispossessed In their own legend about the creation of the world God forgot the Batwa pygmies giving them the only gift he had left which was the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. In 1992 that forest was taken away from the Batwa making them conservation refugees. Forced to live in a world where their hunter gatherer lifestyle, their knowledge, and their language were useless, the Batwa were dying at an alarming rate. Find out how God's living word has been saving some of the most impoverished people on the planet and hear about some of the practicalities of poverty reduction, land ownership, infant mortality, community health, clean water, sanitation, education, discipleship, and leadership training.
With: Scott Kellerman, M.D.
Friday
Ethnic reconciliation, the state, and the Great Commission Outreach among unreached people groups often brings us closer to ethnic conflict than we would like. The mission practitioner is bombarded with confusing questions. How do I handle government fears about missionaries who help oppressed ethnic groups? Is there a time for missionaries to publicly oppose the State? How close a relationship should I have with insurgents? Terrorists? When is it time to call in expert peacemakers? How can the gospel get injected into public conversation about conflict resolution and transform militant nationalist discourse?
With: TBD
Friday
God means business How can business and management professionals share their skills and experience with poor entrepreneurs in developing countries? This workshop will give an overview of how your parish/diocese can learn about "business as mission" and take short-term trips to developing countries to teach basic biblical business principles and business planning.
With: Craig Cole
Friday
Christ-centered life-changing economic development projects How can regular people in North America bring about deep and real life change for the poor in Jesus name? One example is Threads of Hope, an economic development project empowering women artisans from the shantytowns of Lima to create better lives for their families. Now selling over $100,000 per year of artwork with 90% of revenue - 100% of profits - returned to the artists in Peru, it also mentors the families in Bible and financial and life skills. Families now have homes, and the cycle of poverty is being broken as children are in school, well fed, healthy, and graduating as nursing students, in trades, and even law school! All revenue return is monitored throughout the process from the U.S., through the Anglican Diocese of Peru, and then to the women, so that financial accountability is transparent.
With: Cinde Rawn, Kim Nimon
Friday
Don't throw your money away! Millions of dollars can be "thrown" at missionary work - both evangelistic and social outreach - without producing spiritual and financial autonomy or a national/indigenous church able to reproduce itself and disciple its own leaders. This workshop will focus on supporting long term missionaries in strategic missionary endeavor, using short-term missions for parish leadership development and raising mission awareness, and the local parish's involvement in the effective training of national leaders.
With: The Rev. John Macdonald
Friday
Healed hearts, whole witness: why healing is a "must" in missions Missions is ministry to the needy: spiritually, emotionally and physically. Do you feel overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of pain around you? How can God minister to such a sea of hurt and brokenness? What about your own pain? Healing is a necessity on the mission field, both for the missionary and the cultures we are called to reach. Understand the basics of inner healing and how to develop a healing component to your own ministry.
With: Phil and Wendy Coy
Saturday
Africa: 15 million AIDS orphans AIDS has orphaned 15 million children in sub-Saharan Africa and is threatening the social structures of entire countries. African churches have only recently been in the forefront of HIV?AIDS prevention education and care. What are some models of responding? How can we assist those ministering to the sick and bereaved? How can we pray, get involved, and befriend children whose lives have been devastated by HIV/AIDS? The Rev. John Nganga will also share his personal calling to minister to orphans.
With: The Rev. Dr. John Nganga
Friday
Evolving concepts in cross-cultural health ministries Faithfulness to best practices for cross-cultural health ministries can help ensure success in medical, preventive medicine, and community health mission programs. Dependency, development, cost-effectiveness, evaluation, competition, and collaboration are increasingly important issues. Doctors Anita and Michael Dohn will present an overview of the evolving environment in which Christian cross-cultural health ministries serve.
With: Anita Dohn, MD and Michael Dohn, MD
Saturday
Higher education as mission The explosion of university education around the world is a striking feature of globalization. What role will Christ-centered higher education play in this phenomenon? Uganda Christian University is one example of an authentically Christian university recognized as a "centre of excellence in the heart of Africa." How has it grown? What are the challenges facing it? How can friends in the West help this vision to blossom at UCU and elsewhere?
With: The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll
Friday
Global connections for global Anglicans on mission Explore some paths in world mission today for missional Evangelical Anglican churches and agencies to connect with vital mission networks, teams and structures around the world and enhance our vision, programs, and future. These strategic partnerships include missionary training schools, mission agencies desiring to receive and work with Anglican cross-cultural missionaries, arts in mission, business as mission, tent-making, younger mission leaders, missiology, and global networks for missionary training, member care, least-reached peoples, and mobilizing the church for mission.
With: Bill Taylor
Friday
Ministry opportunities in South East Asia South East Asia is the confluence of three of the world's major faiths - Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. This workshop will present Biblical, historical, missiological and practical perspectives on the advance of the gospel in South East Asia over the past 200 years, what God is doing in this vast region today, and how followers of the Lord Jesus Christ in North America can be involved in what the Father is doing in South East Asia.
With: The Rev. Canon Kuan Kim Seng and Team
Saturday
The next step: from mission tourist to global partners Over $500 million will be spent sending mission teams from North America this year. Is it worth it? Any mission - short or long-term - involves four groups that should be positively impacted: goers, senders, hosts, and the larger community. Were the ministry sites empowered to bear fruit after the missionaries left? Are the community members fighting over the resources left behind, creating division instead of unity? Were missionaries prepared to engage in reciprocal partnerships, both giving and receiving? How do we help the mission - pre-field, on-field, and post-field - be done with excellence and success?
With: Roberto and Cameron Vivanco
Saturday
Mission and money matters Overseas mission partners often have radically different approaches to money and resources than we have in the West. Different social and economic systems puzzle and confound many Westerners. Experienced missioners will use personal experience to illustrate principles of good mission practice for today's mission economics. "Besides well-intentioned but poorly thought-out funding doing damage by creating dependency and jealousy, etc, cross-cultural misunderstandings related to money have a potential to create disillusionment and hard feelings, and are probably the #1 way to derail cross-cultural partnerships."
With: Glen Petta, Edwina Thomas
Saturday
God's church on two continents...growing together Do you have a dream to build a lasting relationship with Christians in another culture? Have you tried, but what you hoped would be a "partnership" has really just become international funding for one more project run by the local people? How can we cross the cultural barriers and establish partnerships that break out of the donor/client paradigm? In past 5 years, churches in the US and Canada have been linked with over 40 local parishes in Rwanda in a Sister-to-Sister partnership. The emphasis is on relationship, relationship, relationship - and they are growing in Christ together!
With: Sandi Harding
Friday
Mobilization and multiplication: the "Timothy" factor in missions Dr. Katie Rhoads is working in both Uganda and Sudan to identify "Timothys" among healthcare workers. Walking alongside them in intensive discipleship as they explore their call to serve, she is seeing these "Timothys" mobilized for mission work among refugees, internally displaced persons, and returnees in Uganda and Sudan. God is raising up laborers to work in His harvest in every culture, and hands-on training and discipleship is an urgent and strategic need worldwide. Come see one model of how it's being done.
With: Dr. Katie Rhoads, M.D.
Friday
Leadership training in Sudan Leadership training is a great need in churches around the world, and especially in Sudan, where civil war displaced communities and disrupted all sectors of society. Christianity has grown tremendously, and now many Sudanese church leaders lack training. Using local and overseas trainers, Good Shepherd Leadership Training Center teaches Christian leadership, community development, Bible, theology, pastoral care, youth ministry, conflict reconciliation, etc, to provide hope and direction and prepare loving, forgiving servant leaders.
With: The Rev. John Chol Daau
Saturday
Myanmar: opening a new Anglican chapter The Province of the Church of Myanmar (Burma) - 70,000 Anglicans in a country where Christians are a very small minority - has entered a new era of ministry. Archbp. Stephen will describe opportunities for work with Myanmar and it's six dioceses.A video capturing the ethos of the country, and the work that can be done in ministry partnership, will illustrate this new opportunity for partnership with North American Anglicans.
With: TBD
Friday
How one Anglican church in South America is reaching out In 1996 a group of some 25 brave people started a church from scratch in a former night club called The Babylon to reach the impoverished community of 10,000 people nearby. The growing congregation of 1,400 - 65% of whom came to faith in the last 9 years - is implementing the five Purpose Driven goals of knowing God through worship, enjoying true fellowship, growing in Christ, serving, and evangelism. They are impacting their community through the peace Plan - promoting reconciliation, equipping servant leaders, assisting the poor, caring for the sick and educating the next generation. Come learn how a parish can evangelize a community through holistic outreach!
With: The Rev. Miguel Uchoa
Friday
Chile: principles for planting and growing churches What are some of the principles that are helping new churches in Chile be planted, grow, and be mobilized to reach out? For starters: new people bring new people, and new workers - lay and ordained - plant new churches. Diverse models of church planting, discipleship and leadership training, on-the-job training, Youth Encounter, and Marriage Encounter will be discussed.
With: Bp. Tito Zavala
Saturday
The persecuted church: miracles of provision and protection Baroness Cox will pay tribute to the courage, faith, dignity and miracles of grace she sees in Christians suffering persecution in countries such as Sudan, Nigeria, Burma, India, and Indonesia. She will convey their requests for prayer support and remind us that "when one part suffers, we all suffer." Her message will celebrate the joy and love she encounters with our persecuted brothers and sisters and will be a call to action on their behalf.
With: Baroness Caroline Cox
Friday
What can we do? Advocacy for the persecuted church Our brothers and sisters in the persecuted church worldwide are, like St. Paul, "being poured out as a drink offering." Christians in the West are becoming aware of their suffering, but sometimes we are overwhelmed by the problem. Ideas, tools, resources, and inspiration for action will be shared. This workshop will focus on the state of advocacy now, how we can join that effort, and mapping a personal and group plan.
With: Faith McDonnell
Saturday
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