HOW DOES ONE INCREASE EXCITEMENT ABOUT MISSIONS?
Posted by cmack on 12 Apr 2008 at 04:34 pm | Tagged as: Missions
Answer: Attend our Church Partner Forum (CPF)
The week after Easter, our Church Partnerships team hosted this event on our Orlando campus. We were at maximum capacity with 40 participants. We had churches represented from 13 different states (TX, MN, NY, IN, NH, CO, AR, IL, FL, CA, KS, CT, & SC).
We hold this event twice a year to strengthen the relationship between sending churches and our agency. Our intent is to help mission-minded church leaders explore how partnership and networking can help them sharpen their missions focus, mobilize members for missions ministry, and maximize their mission impact. (Link to our webpage.)
Our guest speaker was Dr. Tom A. Steffen, Director of Missiology and professor of Intercultural Studies at Biola University. (He is Kelly’s D.Mis.advisor.) He spoke on the hot topic; Business as Missions…is it a fad or something unique God is doing and how will your church respond?
Great discussions and interaction take place during the sessions.
These discussions continue over lunch.
The banquet is a time for good fellowship.
There’s always down time in-between activities for networking.
Next month (May 15th) we are holding our first ever, “off-site” forum in Albuquerque, NM. Stay tuned for a report on how it goes.