Presentation by James Goodman, Associate Director for Program at The Beecken Center of The School of Theology at the University of the South, at the 2017 Episcopal Youth Event.
At the Cedar Hill Church's August 14th Town Hall meeting, the Renewal Team provided a progress update. This update included a brief review of the recent Reveal Survey results and Listening Round table.
Mission Training is a two-year process, consisting of four, two-day Equipping Labs that occur every six months.
Each Equipping Lab addresses a major topic related to planting and renewing churches.
At the Cedar Hill Church's August 14th Town Hall meeting, the Renewal Team provided a progress update. This update included a brief review of the recent Reveal Survey results and Listening Round table.
Mission Training is a two-year process, consisting of four, two-day Equipping Labs that occur every six months.
Each Equipping Lab addresses a major topic related to planting and renewing churches.
Regional Cohort Gatherings Aug 17 & 18, 2011Jason Condon
Topic: "Successful Fall Outreach" From the "Big Picture" Regional Cohort Gatherings for church planters on the East Coast Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
What does eating in a pub once a week have to do with the mission of God? This is a presentation on how Cafechurch seeks to participate in the Missio Dei.
A presentation made in 2007 to share the basics of the incredible things God is doing in northern Uganda and the principles upon which this movement is based.
God calls the Church and our parishes to grow. However, today many of our parishes lack a vision for making disciples, have few or no plans to grow, and can assume that their current members are growing and new disciples are being made, despite evidence to the contrary. In other words, our parishes can be more hopeful than honest. This workshop will address the pastoral reality and current practice of our parishes, offer a renewed vision for making disciples and evangelisation, and suggest practical actions that parishes can take to change the culture and focus of their ministries and groups. It will draw on research into best practice for Church growth both here in Australia and abroad and facilitate a conversation about the nature of parish leadership in this time of change and challenge for faith.
Daniel Ang is Director of Pastoral Planning for the Diocese of Parramatta. He was co-author and coordinator of the Parramatta pastoral plan, Faith in Our Future, and now oversees initiatives of renewal and planning in a parish and diocesan context. He teaches ecclesiology and ministry at the Parramatta Institute for Mission, holds a Bachelor of Arts/Commerce from the University of Sydney and a Master of Divinity from the Sydney College of Divinity. Daniel is an executive member of the National Pastoral Planners Network and published in a number of peer reviewed journals. He is a married layman with one son.
Regional Cohort Gatherings Aug 17 & 18, 2011Jason Condon
Topic: "Successful Fall Outreach" From the "Big Picture" Regional Cohort Gatherings for church planters on the East Coast Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
What does eating in a pub once a week have to do with the mission of God? This is a presentation on how Cafechurch seeks to participate in the Missio Dei.
A presentation made in 2007 to share the basics of the incredible things God is doing in northern Uganda and the principles upon which this movement is based.
God calls the Church and our parishes to grow. However, today many of our parishes lack a vision for making disciples, have few or no plans to grow, and can assume that their current members are growing and new disciples are being made, despite evidence to the contrary. In other words, our parishes can be more hopeful than honest. This workshop will address the pastoral reality and current practice of our parishes, offer a renewed vision for making disciples and evangelisation, and suggest practical actions that parishes can take to change the culture and focus of their ministries and groups. It will draw on research into best practice for Church growth both here in Australia and abroad and facilitate a conversation about the nature of parish leadership in this time of change and challenge for faith.
Daniel Ang is Director of Pastoral Planning for the Diocese of Parramatta. He was co-author and coordinator of the Parramatta pastoral plan, Faith in Our Future, and now oversees initiatives of renewal and planning in a parish and diocesan context. He teaches ecclesiology and ministry at the Parramatta Institute for Mission, holds a Bachelor of Arts/Commerce from the University of Sydney and a Master of Divinity from the Sydney College of Divinity. Daniel is an executive member of the National Pastoral Planners Network and published in a number of peer reviewed journals. He is a married layman with one son.
In this presentation we share the outcomes from our first round of Listening Posts where we shared who we are and who we are called to be, and information about our needs for a Director of Youth and Family Ministries to fulfill our staff.
NET Ministries is finalizing plans on a number of key initiatives designed to help us proclaim the Gospel to an increasing number of Catholic youth. Your thoughts on plans and priorities are important. We are asking all friends to share their valuable input on NET Ministries, our mission and our vision for the future.
Shifting Stats: Shaking the Church. World Vision Canada's 2014 Church Leaders...WVCNCE
Gain a bird’s-eye view of Canada’s new cultural context and a different lens through which to re-frame the Gospel.
In spring 2014, more than 800 church leaders in 10 Canadian cities participated in the church leaders forum: "Shifting Stats: Shaking the Church."
Using the latest Canadian statistics and church research, Dr. Don Moore, World Vision’s National Church Ambassador, painted the picture of our new cultural and religious landscape. Bruxy Cavey, author and Teaching Pastor at The Meeting House, then challenged our thinking on how to not only present but also live out the Gospel given these new realities.
Since 2007, World Vision Canada has offered these half-day church leader events to serve the local church. We strive to offer relevant ministry topics and host a space for honest conversation and collaboration among local leaders.
Learn more about the forum at www.shiftingstats.ca
Learn more about World Vision Canada Church Engagement at www.churches.worldvision.ca
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
3. Centering Reflection
“God Speaks to Each of Us as He Makes Us…”
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear.
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing
Embody me.
Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours,
Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
4. Story Prompt
Tell a story of a time when you just kept
going, and God walked with you beyond
your limits…”
6. Beecken Center Vision
• Leadership training for
formation and transformation
across generations in The
Episcopal Church
• Continuing Christian education
for all the baptized
• Shaping faith into action
• The “Sewanee Experience”
• (Living in the Green) –
partnerships with 4 Episcopal
dioceses re-configuring
mission
7. Beecken Center History
• Founded in 1975 as the
Programs Center for the School
of Theology at the University of
the South
• Education for Ministry (EfM) as
the flagship program
– A deliberate focus on the
theological education of the
whole church and the
empowering of the laity
• A forty year history of
leadership formation for laity,
clergy, and youth
9. Education for
Ministry
• Education for the
“ministry of all the
baptized” and their
various callings
• Key space of theological
education and ministry
discernment for more
than 40 years
– Some to ordained ministry;
many more to innovative lay
ministry across the church,
including social action,
racial reconciliation, and
community and
congregational ministries
10. Education for
Ministry
• Currently there are more than
7,000 participants in 800+ EfM
groups in the U.S.
• More than 1200 participants in
groups across Europe, the
United Kingdom, New Zealand,
Australia, Canada, the
Bahamas, Hong Kong, and
Botswana
• Since 1975, more than 90,000
participants with 42,000
completions
11. Education for
Ministry
• Since 2013:
• A revised curriculum
addressing
– Living Faithfully in your world;
– Living Faithfully in a Multicultural
World;
– Maturing Spiritually as Christians;
– Living into the Journey with God
• All corresponding to the needs
of a changing church and
world
25. Other Program Partners
• Society for the Increase of Ministry (SIM)
• Partnering since 2013 over affordable theological education
and leadership training for the Jesus Movement
• Called to Transformation (C2T)
• Beecken Center as incubation locale for the development of
this asset-based community development curriculum in
partnership with the Domestic and Foreign Missionary
Society and Episcopal Relief & Development
• Cultivate: The Episcopal Food Movement
• The Beecken Center has partnered with community
agriculture experts from throughout The Episcopal Church
to incubate this food justice advocacy network, recent
recipients of a $10,000 Stewardship of Creation grant
• The Godly Play Foundation
• Godly Play partnered with the Beecken Center to host their
2015 North American Conference in Sewanee
26. What’s Next?
• The Beecken Center continues as a force for leadership formation and
training for the kinds of ministries needed by the Church
• Congregations’ capacity for hospitality, inviting the faith stories of all who
enter their spaces, encouraging their gifts for ministry to the church and
world (IWC, LiG)
• Beecken Center retains a pivotal role in adult formation of lay leaders (EfM)
• Visioning for new kinds of leadership for the church in dioceses, church
organizations, and birthing new ministries (LiG)
• Furthering a culture of preparedness for disaster and emergency situations
– and ecumenical and interfaith partnerships in the same (NDIN and
Beecken Center)
• Creating a culture among young people where debate and the exchange of
ideas is marked by “speaking the truth in love”
• Partnering with Cultivate and Others in the Care of the Earth
• The Beecken Center of the School of Theology as an important center in
the larger church ecology for the formation of leaders, ministry to all the
baptized, dreaming the church forward to its next stage and incubating
new programs