Southwest Region

2024 Annual Conference Logo: New Frontiers in Missiology

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April 6, 2024

 

Gateway Seminary

3210 E Guasti Rd, Ontario, CA 91761

8:00am  – 2:45pm

8:00am Gathering and Registration  — Graves

 

8:30am Welcome – Phil Hopkins, host — Graves

 

8:35am Announcements, GCRJ opportunities– Ken Nehrbass

 

8:35am Dismiss to breakout sessions    

 

Moderators:     

8:45 to 9:10 sessions

The Contemporary Use of 1960s and 1970s Practices of Foreign Mission Board Missionaries of the Southern Baptist Convention in Iran 

  • Phil Hopkins, professor at Gateway Seminary

303

Lift your Eyes to New Horizons: How do we discover new frontiers 

  • Greg Parsons, Frontier Ventures

305

9:20am – 9:45am sessions

Bible and Culture: An Intercultural Strategy to Contextual Interpretation 

  • Eunice Momah, Ph.D. student at Fuller Theological Seminary

303

How intercultural studies can help missions organizations avoid “missions faux pas” in the Orthodox world

  • Elke Speliopoulos, Ph.D.,   Columbia International University

305

 

9:50am – 10:15 sessions

Taste and See: A missiology of food for human identity and kingdom transformation in the socioreligious and ethnic dimensions of life

  • John Cheong, associate professor at Grand Canyon University

303

Missiological Insights in the Face Trauma

  • Kyle Rice, Ph.D. student at Cook School of Intercultural Studies

305

 

10:15am to 10:30am break

 

10:30-10:55am sessions

What Spring 2024 missions courses teach us about the future of missionary training

  • Ken Nehrbass, assistant professor at California Baptist University

303

Leveraging Cities to Finish the Task:  Challenges and Opportunities 

  • Alan McMahan, professor at Biola University

305

 

11:00-11:25 sessions

The Gospel in a Chaotic World: Opportunities and Dangers Due to Social Uncertainty and the Struggles of Generation Z

  • David Dunaetz, professor at Azusa Pacific University

303

Beyond Reversed Mission: A proposed model of missiological hybridity from an African peer group practice

  • Zachariah Chinne, Erabhon International

305

11:30 Introduction of Plenary speaker – Alan McMahan

 

11:35   Plenary   –  Ed Stetzer, Dean of Talbot School of Theology 

“The Fragmenting of Evangelicalism and It’s Impact on Cooperation for Global Missions”

12:15 lunch

1:00pm – 1:25 sessions

Deep Engagement with the Hindu World Remains a New Frontier 

  • H L Richard, Frontier Ventures

303

Missio Ecclesiae in Communio with missio Politica: Missio Dei Pro-NHI Globally

  • Jonas Thinane, Research Institute For Theology and Religion 

305 

1:30pm – 1:55pm  sessions

 

Trauma as a New Missional Frontier: Recognizing the Length, Breadth and Depth of an Underestimated Mission Field

  • Andrew Mainiero, Assistant affiliate professor at Fuller Theological Seminary

303

Unleash the dreamer: A transformative approach to engaging the next generation in the church and beyond 

  • Billy McMahan, Africa Inland Mission

305

 

2pm-2:25  session

 

New Frontiers: The Prodigal Son

  • Sihyun Paik, DMin Gateway Seminary, FMB Missionary and  Joseph J. Kim, Professor at Gateway Seminary

303

Praying through Scripture 

  •   Kelly Douglas, Third Way Community

305

2:30  session

 

Towards Dynamic Missiological Practices:

A Practitioner’s Observations from Simple to Complex

  • Randy Rhoades, Staff Development Facilitator and Member Care Consultant, YWAM Africa

303

3:00pm   –  closing   –  Graves