LOWER MAINLAND ETHNIC MINISTRIES
NETWORK
EVENTS...
Lowwer Mainland Ethnic Ministries Networking Meeting
Church Planting / Misc / Missions / MultiCultural Worship Events / Music, the Arts/Media /
Intentional Mulitcultural Church Planting Conference - tentatively March, 2004? - Surrey?
For more info, contact: Email
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UPCOMING MEETING FOLLOWING UP ON the
INTENTIONAL INTERCULTURAL CHURCH PLANTING
CONFERENCE which took place Oct 2002.
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"There is a group of us that has formed around the Intentionally Intercultural Churches conference that has been held here in the Lower Mainland a couple of times. The last one was at PLBC last October. In any case, this group is developing a seminar for churches that want to become more intentionally intercultural. That includes ethnic churches that want to reach Anglo-Canadians or their own second and third generations. The seminar is six hours long and we will be conducting 3 of them on selected Saturdays during the next few months. There is one scheduled for the 8th of February. The main concept is to have whole church leadership teams attend and work through this process-focused seminar together. We had very good reviews from our first "beta-test" of the seminar in October and are preparing an improved version. The cost is $100 per church and includes 10 sets of materials. Blessings.
Dr. Jonathan P. Lewis, Email, Associate Director WEA Missions Commission, International Missionary Training Fellowship, 21233 32nd. Ave., Langley B.C., V2Z 2E7, Canada, (604) 530-4283 www.missionarytraining.com
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National Church Planting Congress - Nov., 2003 - Surrey?
For more info contact: Email
CHRISTIAN MULTICULTURAL
CONFERENCE
The Jesus Family Centre in Cabramatta, Sydney is hosting their annual
Christian Multicultural Conference between August 5 and 7, 2003.
Keynote speakers will include Pastor Che Ahn (Pasadena), Pastor
Gladwyn Turner (Sydney), Pastor John Yao (Melbourne) and Pastor
David Boyd (Jesus Family Centre). A key theme of the conference is
responding to the challenge of diversity. Topics to be addressed will
be Bridging the Multi-cultural Gap in the Church, Building into the
Community and Broadcasting to the Nations. Workshops topics will
include Culture Grams (to better understand different ethnic groups),
The Challenge of the Next Generation (the needs of migrant youth),
and the Government Perspective (how Christians can be involved in
the community). For more information send a message to David
Boyd, senior pastor of the Jesus Family Centre: jfccabra@idx.com.au. (Thanks
CMD Net)
Ethnic America National Summit - May, 2003
The
Bible & the Nations Conference - June 6, 7:00–9:30 pm & June
7, 8:30 am–5:00 pm
Theme: Translating, Reading, Interpreting & Living the Scriptures in the
Multi-cultural Context of the Contemporary Church
Click on the web site to visit the Bible and the Nations website and to register online.
Topics & Speakers:
“Scripture: An Ancient Text for a Modern World”
(Gordon Fee & Bruce Waltke)
“God Speaks Portuguese: Translating the Christian Faith into Local Language
and Culture” (Valdir Steuernagel, pastor, Evangelical Church of the Lutheran
Confession, Brazil)
“The Power of Scriptures in Encountering Buddhist Worldviews (Kang-San
Tan, Home Director, OMF International—Malaysia)
“Gender, Jihad and Jesus: Stories of Muslim Women Transformed by Stories
of God” (Miriam Adeney, Teaching Fellow, Regent College; Associate Professor,
Seattle Pacific University)
Roundtable Discussions with Paul Stevens & Gordon T. Smith, Riad Kassis
& Chris Wright, Rikk Watts & Iain Provan, Geoff Tunnicliffe, Bill
Taylor and Bill Mitchell & Hart Wiens
“Drawing Together the Themes from the Conference: What Have We Heard”
(Chris Wright, International Ministries Director, Langham Partnership International)
WEA
Missions Commission
global leadership consultation
31st May - 6th June 2003
Langley, BC, Canada
The globalisation of mission
This consultation will be the 6th in a series of (usually) triennial consultations convened by the World Evangelical Alliance Missions Commission. Normally, each consultation results in a publication. This time, the publication will be launched at the consultation.
Canada 2003 will consider two main themes : Christian encounter with other religions, and the implications of globalisation for world mission.
The consultation will also include meetings of MC networks and taskforces, each of which will work on their own agenda during the consultation.
A total of 200 participants are expected from some 60 nations. The venue will be Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, Canada. After the consultation, a separate event on "The Bible and the Nations" will be held at Regent College, Vancouver, co-sponsored by WEA MC and Regent College. It is anticipated that many from the WEA MC consultation will go on to this second event.
The networks and taskforces that could be meeting during
the afternoon sessions of this consultation are:
1. Member services to National Missionary Movements
2. International Missionary Training Fellowship
3. Member Care Resources
4. Global Missiological Issues
5. Missions Information Sharing
6. Missionary Mobilisation Network
7. ReMAP 2 (attrition/retention) team
8. Refugee Highway Network
9. Tentmaker International Exchange
For more info check out the web site above...
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PRAISE & WORSHIP CONGRESS
AUGUST 2, 2003
On August the 2nd, 2003, our church ( Iglesia Evangelica Restauracion) will be hosting the very first event of this calibur done in Canada, a Praise and Worship Congress at the Plaza of Nations.
A "well known" Christian Spanish singer ( probably equal to english singer Michael W. Smith....something like that) will be coming from Mexico with his worship team to host this day long event.
The morning will be a music seminar on how we can be better " Adorers of Jesus" and the evening will be this FREE massive concert where we are expecting 4000-5000 people. and know that the Lord will draw many lives to HIM! PRAISE THE LORD!
Along with this I have a few prayer requests :
1st for FAITH FAITH FAITH! THAT everything is possible in HIM who give us
strength
2nd for a perfect venue for the Music Seminar ( the FREE concert will be in
the Plaza of Nations, but the seminar is still without a location)
3. for unity within the Spanish speaking churches ( this is a difficult task,
but not impossible!)
4. Finances ( there is a budget of about $50,000 for this event, and the Lord
knows that this event is solely to exalt HIS HOLY name)
5. for me to have balance to manage with School, work and being the event
coordinator for this event!
Multicultural Worship & Arts Festival - Surrey - summer or fall, 2003
Prayer Network re Music, the Arts/Media - Lower Mainland, BC, Canada
Resource Networking Fellowships for Local Ethnic Christian Musicians & Artists
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