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Fagerstrom Releases 14th Book
Oct 23, 2009
Dr. Douglas Fagerstrom, president of Grand Rapids Theological Seminary (GRTS), recently released The …
Cultural Intelligence
Sep 19, 2009
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Previous GLC Symposiums
21 in 21:
2008 Symposium Resources
What's the role of a 21-year-old in 21st Century mission? What's the role of churches and missions agencies in the missional calling of 20-somethings? These are the questions that drove our most recent Global Learning Center (GLC) Symposium. Copies of some of the audio and visual presentations are available for download below. Click here for a rough sketch of the symposium in notes.
Leadership Roundtable:
A Conversation for Ministry Leaders with Dr. Bill Taylor, global ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance. Bill Taylor shared three plenary sessions which provided some key issues for consideration when thinking about mission in the 21st Century. Download Bill Taylor's 3 presentations here:
1. Personal Reflections by Dr. Bill Taylor
Audio: 8.8M | .mp3
2. A Personal Survey of the Land by Dr. Bill Taylor
3. Learning to Listen to 20-Somethings by Dr. Bill Taylor
Common Ground:
Steve Argue and Dave Livermore of GRTS faciliated a workshop for youth, college, and missions leaders. The workshop explored ways to find common ground between the shifts going on in 21st Century mission and the perspectives of 20-somethings. Download a copy of the workshop presentation here.
Counting Sheep:
2007 Symposium Resources
Measuring missional effectiveness was the topic of last year's GLC Symposium. The following documents are some of the things compiled as a result of our conversation.
- "Counting Sheep: How do we measure missional effectiveness"
by Dave Livermore and Mark Awabdy
This is article is an outgrowth of some of the conversation from our January 2007 Symposium. It's scheduled to appear in WEA's Connections journal in Fall 2007.
An overview of what was covered at the leadership roundtable discussion, including the seminal points made by presenters.
Stephen Freed, International Director of International Teams was the keynote speaker at the Symposium. An audio recording of Stephen's introductory presentation is available here.
Full Manuscript of Mark Awabdy's presentation, "Measuring Missional Effectiveness through the Lens of Scripture"
A Synopsis of Awabdy's "Measuring Missional Effectiveness through the Lens of Scripture"
