2016 Conference Materials

10 Things you need to know about reentry: Lisa Espineli Chinn

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Reentry is the often-forgotten part of cross-cultural transition in a short- or long-term mission experience. Join this interactive workshop and hear practical suggestions on how to effectively return and integrate mission vision and experience in your life and your local church.

Lisa Espineli Chinn authored Reentry Guide for Short-Term Mission Leaders and Think Home. Lisa Chinn, along with her husband Leiton, founded and directed Truro International Programs and Services at Truro Church in Fairfax, VA for 7 years. Lisa directed InterVarsity’s International Student Ministry department from 2000–2014.

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How can North American churches build cross-cultural partnerships that do not create indefinite dependency on Western funding? What are best practices for sustainable development?

Rose Kanyunyuzi is the Global Orphan Project’s GO Africa Facilitator for Local Church Partnerships, empowering local churches in DR Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda to care for orphans. The Rev. Alison Barfoot is Archbishop Stanley Ntagali’s Assistant for International Relations.

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Many think missions is a luxury item for big churches, but every church needs a missional DNA, especially new church plants.

Learn how to create a missional culture, move a congregation out of the box and out the door, instill a missional imagination, do sound cultural exegesis, and create effective structures to empower mission. The Rev. Dr. Cn. Tom Herrick directs the Titus Institute for Church Planting and Multiplication and is the Diocese of Mid-Atlantic Canon for Church Planting.

Leading the Lost to Meet Jesus

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The Ethiopian eunuch was baptized after studying the Scriptures with Philip, a follower of Jesus. Do you follow Jesus? Why not study Scripture with people who don’t yet know him? Let’s learn to do evangelism like Philip and study the Bible with non-Christians!

Peter Lebhar leads InterVarsity in Tallahassee and loves seeing everyone from freshmen to bishops studying the Bible with non-believers!

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Hear and see how God is using a unique Community

Vacation Bible School (CVBS) model in yards, parks, shelters and other venues locally, nationally and internationally to spread the gospel! Learn how CVBS reflects the beauty of believers working together across denominations to further the Kingdom and transform hearts for local and global missions.

Lindsey Feldman directs Children’s Ministry at All Saints’, Woodbridge, VA, and leads Community VBS movement.

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South East Asia is increasingly significant globally. Hear how the church is engaging in mission through multiple approaches in this area of diverse cultures, languages, and religions—Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism—and how your church can partner in this effort.

Bp. Kuan Kim Seng is Missions Director with outreach in Cambodia,Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Immigrant families face tremendous stresses bridging the language and values gaps between their traditional cultures and secular individualistic North American culture. How can we reach first generation immigrants without losing the next generation of their Westernized children? How can we plant thriving inter-generational multi-cultural churches which can impact families and communities in here and abroad? Explore engaging the unreached, using case studies of New Eden Garden Ministry and ministry among Chinese immigrant families.

Bp. Stephen Leung is Anglican Network in Canada Suffragan Bishop for Asian/Multicultural Ministries. The Rev. Shihoko Warren is priest-in-charge of Church of All Nations, a Japanese/multicultural congregation in Vancouver, BC. Mrs. Nona Leung leads Good Shepherd Women Support Group for Chinese immigrant families.

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Alpha ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), teaching language and culture, and building relationships can open church doors and internationals’ hearts. Learn about resources to reach outside the church walls and serve the international community.

José Garrigó, former AlphaUSA Director of Alpha for Latinos and Alpha Colorado, now directs International Ministries at Truro Anglican Church, Fairfax, VA.

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Come explore culturally-appropriate, biblically-grounded ways to communicate principles and practices of healthy living to developing communities. Building mentoring relationships and empowering women and their families results in saved lives and transformed communities.

Dr. Wendy LeMarquand, MD missionary with SAMS, teaches community-based health care, saving lives in rural villages in Ethiopia, e.g., dish drying techniques are dramatically decreasing infant diarrhea.

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Before our Lord Jesus ascended, he commanded us to do something very important to him: “Go and make disciples of all nations…. teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Too many “believers” are not disciples of Christ. Explore what a disciple is and how we as Christians can make true disciples, not just believers, of all nations for Christ. Come and learn what the difference is and how to make a difference for God's kingdom.

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Felix Orji is Bishop of the CANA/ACNA Diocese of the West. Bp. Orji is passionate about making disciples who are disciple-makers themselves.