Tracks and seminars will deal with evangelism, prayer and other spiritual disciplines; but they’ll also cover:
- Environmental Stewardship—caring for the earth’s resources as an integral part of a missional life;
- Business as Mission—working in a business environment for the purposes of the gospel;
- International Poverty—responding to poverty, which spawns such atrocities as sex trafficking, child labor, slum communities and despair;
- Domestic Poverty—confronting homelessness, ethnic strife, immigration, gangs, prisons and other issues that degrade people;
- Advocacy—giving participants a biblical framework to help them use their voice to amplify the voices of the poor; and
- Arts and Media—learning to use our artistic gifts to influence culture and society.
Speakers for a global perspective on God’s work will include:
- Ramez Atallah—General Director, The Bible Society of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt;
- Oscar Muriu—Pastor, Nairobi Chapel, Nairobi, Kenya;
- Sunder Krishnan—Senior Pastor, Rexdale Alliance Church, Ontario, Canada;
- Ruth Padilla DeBorst—General Secretary, Latin American Theological Fellowship, San Jose, Costa Rica;
- Shane Claiborne—Founding Partner, The Simple Way, Philadelphia, Penn.;
- Brenda Salter McNeil—President & Founder, Salter McNeil & Associates, Chicago, Ill.; and
- Patrick Fung—General Director, OMF International, Singapore.
