City Events
March 2019
Andy Crouch – Culture Making (Silicon Valley)
Andy Crouch believes that the Church is missing our cultural responsibility and opportunity; that being "culturally relevant" falls somewhat short of what we're called to do. He believes that we were meant to create and cultivate culture. The Church is not meant to simply analyze or keep up with culture, we're made to contribute and advance it.
Crouch argues that we need to look around us and see what we can create that brings peace and human flourishing to our neighborhoods.
Helping Victims of Trauma and Practicing Self-Care (Cleveland)
Many of the people we care about and places we lead and work are affected by trauma. This is especially true in our under-resourced communities. Unfortunately, in many cases, degrees and compassion alone are generally not adequate in when it comes to caring for someone who has experienced trauma. Consequently, not only are we not always helpful, but we also end up burning out and experiencing compassion fatigue at extremely high rates. Keep growing through this interactive workshop that will better equip you to love your neighbor and love yourself.
April 2019
Miami Pastor’s Gathering
Pastors and ministry leaders are invited to come out for the Miami Pastors Gathering. Ed Stetzer our keynote speaker will be discussing what an ecosystem for gospel movement in the city looks like and how collaboration in the Kingdom works.We will have time for prayer and networking. Lunch will be provided.Share, invite, & be a part of this annual gathering of pastors & ministry leaders throughout the region.
Find out more »Lunch and Learn (Boston)
What Business Leaders Wish More Pastors Knew: A Workshop with Katherine Leary Alsdorf (Orlando)
Disciple Business Leaders in Ways They Want and Need Rather than Your Own
Katherine Leary Alsdorf is the founder & former executive director of Redeemer’s Center for Faith & Work and co-author with Tim Keller of Every Good Endeavor. She and her husband, John, recently spent 18 months establishing the New City Fellows in Raleigh, NC. Katherine is now back with Redeemer's City to City guiding their next steps in the faith and work arena.
Launching West Palm Beach Lunch (West Palm Beach)
We are launching West Palm Beach Made to Flourish with a free lunch and guest speaker Charlie Self, director of city expansion at Made to Flourish.Charlie is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God. He has served as an associate and senior pastor in several congregations in California, Oregon and Washington, D.C. He currently also serves as professor of church history at The Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri, where he teaches courses in apologetics, church history, mission history, leadership development, and discipleship. He is also co-developer of Discipleship Dynamics, a new research-based tool for churches and individuals to assess the effectiveness of their discipleship programs.Charlie is the author of three books: The Divine Dance, The Power of Faithful Focus (with co-author Les Hewitt) and his most recent work with Acton Institute, Flourishing Churches and Communities: A Pentecostal Primer on Faith, Work, and Economics for Spirit-Empowered Discipleship. He has an M.A. in history on the church and social change in Latin America (1992) and Ph.D. in modern European history, with foci on Belgian Protestantism and studies in virtue ethics and the Holocaust (1995), from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also has an M.A. in philosophical and systematic theology from The Graduate Theological Union and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California.Charlie is married to Kathleen, a professional artist, and they have been married and on mission for 36 years. They have three adult children.
Marketplace Ministers: On the Job Training (Richmond)
In this seminar we will seek to explore the dynamics of intentional discipleship in the workplace and to identify practical ways of living out our faith beyond Sunday morning. Jesus' heavenly ascension was preceded by the impartation of an earthly assignment to His followers to make disciples as we go about our daily lives. In many cases, we have easily absorbed this missional mandate into the culture of our churches but have fallen woefully short in the marketplace, where we spend most of our waking moments. If we are going to effectively complete the mission assigned to us, we must intentionally integrate our Sunday profession with our Monday practice.You are invited to join the Richmond Network for lunch as we explore this topic in depth and learn from practitioners who successfully embody an integrated faith praxis in the marketplace. All pastors and ministry leaders are invited. Catered lunch will be provided.
Impediments To A Flourishing Community and Church (Hampton Roads)
Join us for a free lunch as we have a dialogue about impediments to a flourishing community and church. There will be a panel of pastors with real stories and real experiences, male and female, white pastors and pastors of color striving to answer the question "Can we, by God's grace and with God's help, train our eyes to see, notice, acknowledge, talk about, converse about the truth of structural racism and racial exclusion in our city?"
"May we search the story, acknowledge the pain, celebrate the good, that we might flourish together." -Matt Farmer, Hope Center in Kansas City, MO.
We are partnering with the monthly Pastors Dialogue on Racism, Poverty and Violence for this event.
The Future of Work: A Christian Take on Work, Meaning, and Identity in the New Economy (Denver)
A mounting body of research suggests the labor market is in the middle of a pivot—a rather ominous one already being called the “fourth industrial revolution.” One study by Citigroup and Oxford University found that 47 percent of jobs could be automated in the next decade. More recently, a report by the McKinsey Global Institute found that nearly half of all jobs could be replaced by technology that already exists—drones, self-driving vehicles, automatic kiosks, robo-traders, self-learning software, 3-D printers, and other forms of artificial intelligence.
How do we navigate the fast-changing nature of our economy with courage as opposed to fear, with thoughtfulness as opposed to reactivity, and with theological curiosity as opposed apathetic fatalism? What does this meaning for the future of work? How do church leaders pastor and disciple others in light of this change?
Conflict Management (Cleveland)
No matter where you lead, conflict will come. And while you may have many great leadership skills, our leadership is often defined by how we deal with conflict in our workplace, in our organizations, in our communities, in our relationships, and in the public square. This is where leadership gets real. Keep Growing as a leader through this interactive workshop on how to moderate conflict in a way that limits the negative effects of conflict and enhances the positive ones.