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Directions
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Think
of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. Moreover,
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 2-5 p.m. Event Check-in 6:30 p.m. Dinner 8:00 p.m. Worship Service TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 8:30 a.m. Worship 9:00 a.m. Session I-Our Changing Context 10:15 a.m. Session II-Just Do It!: Participating in God's Promises Afternoon Golf/Recreation/Free Time WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 8:30 a.m. Worship 9:00 a.m. Session III- Dragons Ahoy!: Trusting in God's Promises 10:15 a.m. Session IV- Adapting Structures for the Information Age 11:30 p.m. Lunch with Bishop & Staff 1:00 p.m. Workshops 7:00 p.m. Banquet THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 8:30 a.m. Session V-Ooh, Mr. Kotter!: Proclaiming 9:45 a.m. Session VI-Learning to Lead in a New Way God's Promises 11:00 a.m. Closing Worship | |||||||||||||||
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The
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Gibbs serves as senior professor of church growth in the School of Intercultural
Studies and has been on the faculty of Fuller Seminary since 1984. He is also
Director of the Institute for the Study of Emerging Churches, in the Brehm Center
for Worship, Theology and the Arts. The author of popular church growth text Church
Next, he speaks about evangelism and church growth around the world. Currently,
his academic interests include evangelizing nominal Christians, assisting local
churches in becoming evangelizing churches, and developing the Church's response
to modernity and post-modernity in becoming a missionary presence. Gibbs came to Fuller from England with an extensive interest in mission that included practical experience in Santiago and Quilpue, Chile, with his wife Renee. In the last few years, his teaching has taken him around the U.S. and to such countries as Singapore, Korea, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway and South Africa. Some of Gibbs' other publications include LeadershipNext: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture (2005), Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures (2005) with co-author Ryan Bolger, Way to Serve (2003), Way to Go (2003), In Name Only (1994), I Believe in Church Growth (1981, revised 1985, 1989), and Good News is for Sharing (1993). | |||||||||||||||
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Missional Promises Tuesday: "Just Do It!": Participating in God's Promises Wednesday: "Dragons Ahoy!": Trusting in God's Promises Thursday: "Ooh, Mr. Kotter!": Proclaiming God's Promises Keynote Presenter: The Rev. Dr. Marty Stevens Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg | ||||||||||||||
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Marty Stevens has served the Church in a variety of roles including pastor, teacher, scholar and administrator. Passionate about recovering the use of Old Testament in the Church, she combines academic scholarship with humor to bring Old Testament narratives to life in new and refreshing ways. A former senior vice president of finance for a bank, she combined her financial expertise and biblical scholarship in the publication of her first book, Temples, Tithes, and Taxes: The Temple and the Economic Life of Ancient Israel (Hendrickson, 2006). Her essay "The Obedience of Trust: Reclaiming the Law as Gift" was published in The Ten Commandments (ed. William P. Brown, Westminster John Knox, 2004). She has been a keynote presenter at various conferences and retreats. After earning a degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Accounting, she worked as a Certified Public Accountant and financial management executive in Charlotte, Toronto, and Europe before heeding a call to Word and Sacrament ministry. A graduate of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, she served as pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in Salisbury, North Carolina, where she reinvigorated educational programming and local social ministry through the recruitment and training of lay people for leadership. She earned a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in 2002. Dr. Stevens serves on the Board of Trustees of Augsburg Fortress Publishers as Secretary and a member of the Audit Committee. She also serves as consultant to the Board of the Stewardship of Life Institute of the ELCA. | |||||||||||||||
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