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A New Creation: The Fusion of Ministry and Creative Arts

A George Fox Evangelical Seminary Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar Series Presentation

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  • Secondary tags you might consider adding as well: gfes, DanKimball, MaggiDawn, MinistryinContemporaryCulture

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  • Event hashtag: #micc

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Panel respondents included (from left to right):

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The photos are now posted to a flickr set here.

 

 

Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization: GFES Reconciliation Conversation

Join the conversation here:

http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/groups/view/1087

Or read the papers online and comment below.

Reconciling Ethnic Divisions

Here’s a link to an article on reconciliation between ethnic groups, by a team that has done work reconciling ethnic divisions in Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, and South Africa:

Healing the Wounds of Ethnic Conflict

As you read this article, what resonates for you (a) as a person of your ethnicity, and (b) as an ambassador of reconciliation?

 

 

 

 

Get Connected to The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization

We have a very special opportunity for you. The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization is occurring in Cape Town, South Africa, October 17-24, 2010.

The congress occurs once every ten years, and the purpose is to “convene Christian leaders worldwide to confront critical issues of our time and help develop a deeper level of unity and collaboration in the ongoing task of bringing the whole gospel to the whole world.”

There are 4,500 participants invited to attend from 190 countries, along with 1,000 volunteers, staff, and media personnel. MaryKate Morse is representing the seminary at the Congress, Robin Baker is attending along with other Christian college/university presidents, Sarita Gallagher is attending from the Religion Department, and the Global Missional Leadership DMin students are devoting an entire week of coursework to exclusively engage the event at dmingml.com.

The congress is organized around 6 core themes:

  1. Truth - marketplace ministry, media and technology, personal witness, and truth and pluralism
  2. Reconciliation - environment, ethnicity, poverty & wealth, and resource stewardship
  3. World Faiths – diaspora, globalization, unreached people groups, and world faiths
  4. Priorities – forming leaders, orality, urban mission
  5. Authenticity & Integrity – human future, prosperity gospel, men and women
  6. Partnerships – children and youth, indigenous leaders, partnership, and Scripture in mission

For more information on the topics check: http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/topics

The conference is organized so that persons who are not attending in person may actively participate. Following is a lisitng of participation options:

  • View the plenary sessions.
    • Schedule
    • Remember, Cape Town's time zon eis UTC/GMT +2 hours, while Portland, Oregon is UTC/GMT -7 hours (9 hours difference).
    • Video-casted sessions are only 15 minutes long.
    • Recordings made available 5 hours after the close of each session.
  • Subscribe to podcasts of the recorded plenary sessions at http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/podcasts.html
  • Read the "Advance Papers" that the presents have prepared and posted prior to their presentations.
  • Engage in conversations on any topic with persons from around the world. Anyone can sign up to join the conversation.
  • Some of the faculty will have conversation groups.

Social media engagement options:

  • Visit the event's Facebook page.
  • Follow the event on Twitter.
  • Follow MaryKate Morse on Twitter as she comments on the congress. Use the hashtag #gfct10.
  • Follow the GML DMin cohort at dmingml.com October 18-24 as the doctoral students engage the "Advance Papers" and conversations. Use the hashtags #dmingml and #capetown2010.

Tags:

  • #capetown2010
  • #ldmingml (October 18-24)
  • #gfct10 (George Fox community via MaryKate)

These are critical conversations and a special opportunity to connect with people around the world about Christian concerns. Historically, Lausanne has been a major contributor to the unity of the church and to the importance of evangelism and social justice. Please join in the conversations. If you have any technical issues, contact Gloria Doherty. If you have Cape Town questions, contact MaryKate Morse. If you have seminary questions about Cape Town, contact Jean Miller.

A Half-Day Seminar with Scot McKnight: Social Media Guidelines

A George Fox Evangelical Seminary Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar Series Presentation

Social Media Guidelines:

For all bloggers, tweeters, Facebookers, and other social media-ites, we are offering the following guidelines for tagging your interactions for this event.

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  • Primary event tag: micc
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Ministry in Contemporary Culture Series: A Half-Day Seminar with Scot McKnight

Wednesday, Sept 29, 2010  |  9 a.m. to noon
George Fox Evangelical Seminary (Room 155)
Optional roundtable lunch available

Scott McKnight

Why are there so many differences between how we "evangelize" and how the apostles evangelized? Do we need to re-examine the meaning of "gospel"? Did Jesus preach the gospel or were the apostles the first to preach the gospel? How important is the cross to the gospel? What place does the resurrection have in our gospel and our evangelism? These and other questions will be discussed at the seminary's upcoming Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar.

Scot McKnight is a widely recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University in Chicago. A popular and witty speaker, McKnight has given interviews on radios across the nation, has appeared on television, and is regularly asked to speak in local churches and educational events throughout the world.

His most recent books are The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible and Fasting. He is presently researching “gospel” in the earliest Christian communities. 

Register online

Opening Day - DMINGML GML1 - Jason Clark's Vision #dmingml

(download)

Ripon College Cuddedson, Oxford, UK - Jason Clark

The Global Missional Leadership DMin Program began with an orientation from Jason Clark and Loren Kerns. Following lunch, the cohort and advisors engaged presentations from Martyn Percy, Principle of Ripon College Cuddesdon, and Jim Belcher, author of Deep Church.

You can hear Jason’s Vision for GML DMin program here.

You may also view the conversation dmingml.com as students discussed the sessions in real time online. Sept, 1, 2010: http://dmingml.com/2010/sep/01/

Jason Clark
Vision and Context - Starting the GML Progam

Social Media Bootcamp | George Fox Evangelical Seminary

Social Media Bootcamp
Saturday, September 4, 2010
London Institute of
Contemporary Christianity
9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
£10 registration to attend in person

Evangelical Alliance-UK will process all registrations at:
http://www.eauk.org/slipstream/events/social-media-boot-camp.cfm

Event will be recorded at streatmed live with ustream

 

 

Social media has exploded into everyday life with people sharing a tidal wave of photos, videos, words and audio.  It is no longer a question of whether to get involved in social media, but how to.

The Social Media Bootcamp will explore: 

  • What is social media, why is it here, and why is it important?
  • The most popular social media tools including blogging, Facebook and Twitter
  • How you might better use social media for your own communication and life
  • How your organization, church, or ministry might engage strategically and
    meaningfully with social media

 

Dave Merwin

Dave Merwin of Pure Blue Design and Lee Goodger of Spook Media  


We will be led on the day by two Christians who are experts in social media

The organizations partnering in this event (Evangelical Alliance UK, London Institute of Contemporary Christianity, London School of Theology and George Fox Seminary) are passionate about resourcing Christians and ministry organizations, as they themselves learn to work with social media.

So, if you are interested in orienting yourself and your organization to social media,
be sure to book your place right away!

Jason Clark
   Questions? E-mail jason@jasonclark.ws
  
   Doctor Jason Clark will be the event's MC.
   Learn more about him at http://jasonclark.ws 

via georgefox.edu

 

George Fox Evangelical Seminary redesigns website

We are excited to announce the launch of a new design for the George Fox Evangelical Seminary website. While much of the content and features available in the previous design are still available, the new design now features a complete description of our Master of Arts, Ministry Leadership (MAML) program as well as our newest concentration - Christian Earthkeeping.

See: seminary.georgefox.edu

Gfes-homepage-2010design

Through Missional Church Learning Experience, Oregon congregation discovers new life by letting go

Through Missional Church Learning Experience, Oregon congregation discovers new life by letting go

By Rev. Carren Woods, Pastor, Rivergate Community Church

More than 50 years ago the small group of believers who started our church acquired the entire city block where our building stands. At the time that wasn’t saying very much. The area was industrial, almost undeveloped, and the land wasn’t worth much. After clearing the land of the brambles and blackberry bushes, they built our sanctuary for worship and Christian education.

Two generations later, the church is still meeting and worshipping in the same building, now surrounded by a working class, inner city neighborhood. Dreams about the land have come and gone. Once in the ’60s there were dreams of expansion and a bigger sanctuary. We even still have the architect’s model somewhere on a shelf. That dream did not come to pass, and instead of growing we began shrinking.

Like many churches, as we dwindled in numbers, we also dwindled in vision. Where once we dreamed of building a bigger worship center because we were reaching our neighborhood with the message of Jesus Christ, we now dreamed of selling the land just to pay our bills. Internal family concerns began to consume us: Talk was no longer about our God-given mission; it was now about survival. Our future looked dark.

However, God does funny things to us sometimes. In our case, God caused us to get old. We could no longer navigate the steep stairs in our worship building, and the bathrooms were downstairs. We had to put in an elevator, but that was tens of thousands of dollars. We began to look at the "back forty" of our land as our only way forward. It was then that God gave us the hard push we needed.

We had been learning about becoming a missional community through our involvement in the Missional Church Learning Experience, sponsored by National Ministries’ church revitalization program. The idea dawned on us that we could use our land somehow to engage our community in mission and solve our elevator problem at the same time. One night in a deacons meeting, the idea arose clearly: What about Habitat for Humanity?

We contacted Habitat, and all of the pieces fell into place in rapid order. It seemed like God had already known what we were supposed to do and had everything ready for us when we finally got the message and acted. We arranged to sell the back half of our property to Habitat for below-market price. It was enough money to install an elevator. Suddenly we discovered that with the elevator in place God began sending outside community groups to us who needed meeting space, but required handicap accessibility. As time moves forward, our building is becoming a community center.

We have discovered new life. We are pouring ourselves into helping Habitat build homes for 12 families. We are figuring out how to help our neighborhood celebrate a new community forming in our midst. We are starting a community garden so the Habitat families and neighbors have space to grow vegetables. As we have done these things, we are seeing more and more that God has gone before us, preparing for us a space to work and live out the Kingdom calling.

Today all we talk about at Rivergate Community Church is the new life growing up in the community named Rivergate Commons—built on ground our forefathers bought for a song, cleared with their own hands, and tended for years with no idea why God wanted them to do it. We have learned the hardest lesson of all for a Christian community: In order to save our life, we had to give our life away. What looked like defeat—the inevitable bowing to our dwindling numbers and money—has become the foundation of a new life together in mission for God. Our future no longer looks dark.

via nationalministries.org

Rev. Carren Woods, MDiv graduate from 2002, featured on American Baptist national website.