Mission On Your Doorstep 2010: Re:Defining Neighborly Love
Equipping Churches for Local Mission
Speaker and Program Seminars are available via Audio below
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Friday Pastors Conference:
Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
Saturday Conference:
“And Who is My Neighbor?”
Plenary Session - What Is Love? Redefining how we love our neighbor. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
1: Necessary Cultural Intelligence for a Multicultural Church
In our rapidly changing world, it's essential for churches to also begin to reflect our neighborhoods' diversity. But this effort requires more than adding a new skill set. It requires us to develop a new paradigm of family and become one of welcome, warmth and hospitality as we bridge across racial and cultural divides to become the household of faith God intends.
Dr. Soong-Chan Rah-Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism of North Park Theological
This current era has seen the largest number of immigrants ever to enter this country. Because of this, projections using U.S. Census Bureau data indicates that DuPage County (for example) may have no majority population group by 2020. This session will provide training in how neighborhood demographic and ethnographic data can be collected online…and then suggestions in how this might be translated in ministry.
David Ripley-SIM USA retired missionary
3: The Suburban Poor: Causes & Issues
We will explore the elements and factors of suburban poverty and how being poor in the suburbs uniquely affects individuals and families. Specific issues, values and societal factors that surround poverty in the suburbs will be discussed. Included in the workshop will be case studies that will encourage participants to interact with the issues of suburban poverty more readily.
Vanessa Roth- Executive Director of the Outreach Community Center
4: Welcoming the Stranger: Undocumented Immigrants
"Welcoming the Stranger: Undocumented Immigrants" provides a biblical perspective on undocumented immigrants, addressing some common questions and misconceptions about who these individuals are, considering what Scripture has to say that might inform our thinking about the controversial topic of immigration, and considers how churches and individual Christ-followers can best serve these new neighbors.
Matthew Soerens- Church Engagement Representative at World Relief DuPage
5: Understanding & Reaching Muslims
We have many reasons for finding and using the best guidelines possible for a winsome witness with our Muslim neighbors. We are duty bound,i.e committed to the task of witnessing the Christian faith. This witness is one of love and concern rather than motivated by a condescending atttitude and self-righteousness. In addition, we are anxious to share our inner joy and peace with our neighbour, motivated by the second greatest commandment.
Hicham Chehab- works as a missionary to the Muslims with the Lutheran Church in Illinois, and pastors an Arabic Christian fellowship, he planted in Chicagoland, out of converts, and seekers.
6: Understanding & Reaching Hindus
This workshop will be a small overview of Hinduism and how to reach out to those in this religion.
Sunita Rodricks- accepted Christ 30yrs ago. She came from a Hindu background, is married with 2 children, and has been working for the last 12yrs. She has a passion to reach out to her community with love and the good news of Jesus Christ.
Nos presentará un panorama de los cambios socioeconómicos, raciales y culturales que se han dado en los últimos años en uno de los condados mas afluentes en la unión americana: El Condado de DuPage y como estos presentan
no solo un desafío, pero una oportunidad para la iglesia local al ésta levantarse a responder el mandato bíblico de proclamar el evangelio al amar a nuestro prójimo.
Sergio Villanueva- ha sido el director de alabanza en la Iglesia del Pueblo el Ministerio Hispano de Wheaton Bible Church por los últimos cinco años. Anteriormente sirvió como Pastor de Jóvenes y Pastor asociado en Iglesias en el norte de México y en los suburbios de Chicago por más de 10 años.
“How do I Love My Neighbor?”
Plenary Session - How do I love my neighbor? Noel Castellanos
1: Shalom Theology: Suffering & Celebration
We see suffering all around us especially in the lives of the most vulnerable in our communities. How do we develop a Biblical, theological response to the reality of suffering? This workshop draws from Walter Brueggemann’s paradigms (found in his landmark work Shalom), and explores the distinction between the theology of suffering and the theology of celebration in order to understand the Christological redemptive value of suffering in our world.
Dr. Soong-Chan Rah- Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism of North Park Theological
2: Good Neighboring: Hospitality – Where to Start
This workshop will focus on loving your neighbor through hospitality.
3: Helping Without Hurting: When Good Intentions Aren’t Enough
In this session, we will (1) explore the chasm of differences between “serving” & “loving” the materially poor (2) examine ministry paradigms of charity, betterment, and transformation (3) share the joys and pitfalls of helping and hurting the materially poor and (4) interactively discuss how our ministry approaches can result in mutual blessing & transformation.
Damon Schroeder- World Relief US Partnership Director
4: Evangelism Across Cultures: from Conversation to Discipleship
“Evangelism Across Cultures: from Conversation to Discipleship” – Effective cross-cultural evangelism requires a concern for the contextualization of the gospel in differerent cultures and an appropriate entry-posture for workers to maximize their relational investment in the people they serve. Important principles will be offered for contextualization and posturing with a view to effectively reaching every culture with the gospel.
Dr. Rich Little- is the minister for the Naperville Church of Christ and an adjunct instructor of Christian Formation and Ministry at Wheaton College.
5: Advocacy: Speaking on Behalf of Others
“Advocacy: Speaking on Behalf of Others" addresses the question of if and when Christians should engage on the democratic political process and provides suggestions on how to do so in a faithful, effective way, seeking just policies on behalf of the marginalized in our society.
Matthew Soerens- Church Engagement Representative at World Relief DuPage
6: Immigrant Children: Role Reversal & Reaching Kids Without Splitting the Family
The seminar will deal with reaching immigrant youth and families. It will provide insights to second generation phenonmena, what goes on in immigrant homes and strategies to effectively minister to them.
Sam George- provides leadership for a family ministry to the Asian Indian community in North America. He is the author of the book Understanding the Coconut Generation: Ministry to the Americanized Asian Indians.
7: "Evangelismo Integral: El Ser y El Decir de la Misión Local."
En este taller interactivo disctutiremos que es la mision de la iglesia y cual es la relacion entre la proclamacion y la demostracion del evangelio.
Jonathan Kindberg- se crio en Latinoamérica de padres misioneros. El el pastor de Iglesia de La Resurrección-Parkside, una iglesia que se junta en los departamentos Parkside en Glen Ellyn. Esta iglesia multiétnica se compone de hispanos tanto de inmigrantes de otros países.
Loving Your Neighborhood
1: The Suburbanization of Poverty: Churching in a Changing Community
As pockets of poverty emerge in the suburbs what can be learned from the urbanization of poverty of past generations? Immigrant vs race based poverty bring different realities. Using Chicago as a case study how did the church respond to urban poverty and how does that instruct us for the challenges of today and tomorrow?
Glen Kehrein- Executive Director and founder of Circle Urban Ministries
2: What is Christian Community Development?
Noel outlines and discusses the 8 core principles involved in developing effective ministry among under-resourced poor. These CCDA values are Relocation, Reconciliation, Redistribution, Leadership Development, Listening to Community, Church-Based, Wholistic Approach, & Empowerment
Noel Castellanos- CEO of the Christian Community Development Association
3: Moving In: Relocating to an Under-Resourced Community
What does it look like to move in to a under-resourced neighborhood? How is it done well and what are some of the pitfalls and challenges? In this interactive workshop you will hear from several "relocaters" who are currently living in under-resourced neighborhoods in DuPage county.
Jonathan Kindberg- se crio en Latinoamérica de padres misioneros. El el pastor de Iglesia de La Resurrección-Parkside, una iglesia que se junta en los departamentos Parkside en Glen Ellyn. Esta iglesia multiétnica se compone de hispanos tanto de inmigrantes de otros países.
4: Models of School Based Ministry
As our neighborhoods change so do the felts needs of the residents. What are churches doing to meet the needs of residents? What models are successful? What are the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches? What are the “gotchas” churches should look out for? These are the kinds of questions we will discuss at this panel discussion with three practitioners of school and apartment based models of ministry.
Chris McElwee- Local Impact at Wheaton Bible Church
Kevin Engel- has a background of twenty-five years of missions mobilization ministry including a Minnesota Presbyterian Church, Wheaton College, First Baptist Church of Geneva, a refugee camp in Vienna, Austria, and for the past three years a missional church plant called Jericho Road Church in Wheaton and Lombard.
Matthew McNiel-graduated from Wheaton College with a Masters degree in Intercultural Studies and Mission (emphasis Community Development). He has worked in the people helping field for eight years. Currently, he is the director of Puente del Pueblo, a community based, church sponsored social service agency in the Westwood Apartments in West Chicago.
5: Community Listening: Practical tools for listening and organizing with your neighbors
How well do you know your neighbors? Do you know what motivates them? What concerns them? What dreams they have for the neighborhood? Listening is the key to transformation. This workshop will explore practical tools for listening to your neighbors, organizing community listening events and listening to discover assets and concerns in your community.
Bethany Dudley- Executive Director of Requip NFP
6: How to Start, Develop, and Implement a Neighborhood Ministry (or “How to Organize and Develop Holistic Ministries for “At-Risk” Neighborhoods/Communities”)
How to do the research, design, organize, develop and maintain a compreshensive, holistic ministry to serve "at-risk" neighborhood or "high-need" community.
Chris Ellerman- has served as the executive director and now CEO of Outreach Community Ministries since 1977 and has served in most of the ministry roles at OCM as a foster parent, youth counselor, family counselor, educator and mentor.
7: Church-Planting Among New Immigrants
This session will consider issues related to cross-cultural church planting in immigrant (diaspora) contexts. Biblical and missiological principles will be discussed and special emphasis will be places on the pursuit of contextualization in mission praxis and spiritual formation.
Cody Lorance- is the pastor and church planting leader of Trinity International Baptist Mission a network of church plants and ministries based in the Chicagoland area that seeks to bring the hope and wholeness of Jesus Christ to people of all nations.
Levantando un Iglesia bilingue will cover the steps that we took to prepare to launch a bilingual church in a mostly hispanic, under-resourced community.
Levantando un Iglesia bilingue cubrira los pasos que tomamos para prepararnos y preparar la comunidad para empezar una iglesia bilingue en una area mayormente latina y de bajo recursos.
Obe Arellano- Campus Pastor at Community Christian Church, the East Aurora Campus. Community is a multi-site church with 10 locations.The East Aurora campus was just started on January 10, 2010. It is the first bilingual campus for Community Christian Church.
