Similar to the development of medical missions in the last century, environmental missions is a growing frontier with unique opportunities for service and witness at home and abroad. Come discuss biblical perspectives on environmental problems and explore their implications for missions and ministry today.
Global Issues
In this decade of the refugee-migrant, how do we respond biblically to what is becoming a global crisis with a frighteningly high human cost? Many of the sufferers are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Is immigration a problem? Or is there a problem with border controls? We will think well about the issues together.
A common framework for Scripture translation is emerging that addresses the urgency of the need with faster access to usable Scriptures. This framework—which serves the local incarnational expression of the church that owns the vision and responsibility for Bible translation—is accelerated but not hurried, relational but not transactional, designed but not prescribed. Come find out more.
Humanity is facing the tragedy of racial conflicts, and these conflicts are a hindrance to the mission of God. The miracle of racial reconciliation reveals and displays the ultimate outcome of God’s mission.
Come and wrestle with the hard reality a person faces when they have no mother or father. But Jesus walks faithfully with those living this reality. In this seminar, we will discuss creative ways to journey alongside those living as orphans.
We live in a borderless world with people constantly on the move—refugees, migrant workers, international students, people moving their families from their home country to another location. People are on the move, and God is moving among them. How can we be involved among diaspora peoples through short-term mission?
We will explore some aspects of prayer as spiritual warfare—the wardrobe, the warriors, the war-field, the warfare, and winners—in our call to be effective witnesses and soldiers for Christ in global mission.
Learn how real political or church decisions have affected the church in the Middle Eastern and North African regions.
Many young people in the Church have been sexually abused by those whom they have been taught to love, trust, and obey. This seminar will help participants understand how the gospel equips and propels us to protect children from abuse while also caring for survivors of abuse.
This seminar tells the story of Ukrainian Christians becoming part the largest revolutionary events in the Western world since the breakdown of Berlin Wall. It brings the questions of Christian involment into the society to the table, presenting a comprehensive active peacemaking approach.