Global Community of Church Leaders to Gather for 'Great Commission Summit' 在欧文的康考迪亚大学
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GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF CHURCH LEADERS TO GATHER FOR ‘GREAT COMMISSION SUMMIT’ AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE
加州欧文. (2015年5月14日) – 欧文康考迪亚大学 今天公布了 2015年大使命峰会, a church leadership conference designed to connect, equip and teach pastors and church leaders to be effective ministers of the gospel amid the changing dynamic of global Christianity. Taking place 在欧文的康考迪亚大学, 6月1 - 2, the Great Commission Summit aims to create a relational network of church leaders and build an understanding of how the global reach of Christianity can impact individual church communities.
根据牧师的说法. 基本脉冲电平罩, Director of Church Relations 在欧文的康考迪亚大学, 在上个世纪, the center of gravity in the Christian world has shifted inexorably away from Europe and North America, 向南, 非洲和拉丁美洲, 和东, 对亚洲. Additionally, while church attendance in the U.S. is decreasing,the population in the U.S. is growing rapidly through migration. 截至2010年，美国的经济增长速度已超过美国.S. had the largest number of international migrants. According to Pew Research, 74 percent of an estimated 42,810,000 immigrants to the U.S. 是基督教徒.
“The church is driven by the Great Commission to make disciples, and Western church leaders have the unique opportunity to learn from the global community about the changing cultural realities that impact religious growth,牧师说。. 罩. “The Great Commission Summit welcomes church leaders to contextualize the principles of global Christianity to their own communities and engage their networks of fellow leaders and their congregations to better understand the impact of local ministry.”
Sessions and Speakers Provide a Global Perspective
The conference keynote will be given by the Rev. Dr. Soong Chan Rah, author and Milton B. Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism, 芝加哥, 和Ed Stetzer, executive director of Life Way Research, author and well-known conference and seminar leader residing in Hendersonville, 田纳西州.
Rah has extensive experience in cross-cultural preaching and is the author of The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity, Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church 也是 Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations. He also serves on the boards of World Vision, 旅居者, the Christian Community Development Association, Evangelicals 4 Justice and the Catalyst Leadership Center. He is formerly the founding Senior Pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC), 一个多民族, urban ministry-focused church committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context.
Stetzer种植了, 充满活力, 还有牧师教会, trained pastors and church planters on six continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written dozens of articles and books. He serves as Visiting Professor of Research and Missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Visiting Research Professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has taught at many other colleges and seminaries.
The conference will also bring together a panel of Christian leaders including:
- Dr. 查尔斯Arand -圣康考迪亚神学院. 路易斯- Confessional Theology and the Global South
- 马克怀特洛克 - Christ Our Redeemer AME, Irvine - The Word Becomes Flesh – Pentecostalism and the Global South
- Gerardo杰罗姆翻译 -圣安娜水手教堂 Church Planting to 2nd Generation Latinos
- Fr. 霍兰 & 凯蒂·道森 -奥兰治教区- 新福音
Early bird registration at $75 is open now through May 15. On May 16, ticket prices increase to $95. For more information or to register, visit http://wmw.azarnewsonline.com/church-relations/great-commission-summit. 浏览活动新闻及 live updates, follow #CUIGCS on Twitter.
关于 欧文康考迪亚大学
欧文康考迪亚大学 prepares students for their vocations—their calling in life. 欧文康考迪亚大学 offers under研究生, 研究生, 博士, and adult degree programs in a beautiful Southern California location in the City of Irvine, with online and regional cohort options. Concordia’s under研究生 program is distinctive among universities in California because of its nationally recognized 核心课程，其 路德 heritage that provides a thoughtful and caring Christian community that lives out the theology of “恩典. 独自一人信仰." 康科迪亚是一个 U.S. 新闻 Top Tier Regional University and has been named by 高等教育编年史 as one of the fastest growing private nonprofit master's institutions. 欧文康考迪亚大学 enrolls over 4,000 students.