2024 CONFERENCE THEME
New Frontiers in Missiology
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3909 Swiss Ave, Dallas, TX 75204
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Betsy Wagner
Elisabeth (Betsy) Nesbit Wagner received her PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision from the University of Arkansas, her MA in Community Counseling from Denver Seminary, and her BA in Interpersonal Communication from the University of Northern Iowa. Betsy has co-authored a book titled, “Effective Generational Ministry” with Dr. Craig Blomberg, and another with Drs. Heather & Fred Gingrich titled, “Skills for Effective Counseling.” Betsy spent over ten years in academia, and is now the Director of Member Care Services for WorldVenture in Englewood, CO. She and her husband, David, live outside Denver, CO where Betsy maintains a practice as a Licensed Professional Counselor and consultant.
Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins is a Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University, where he serves in the Institute for Studies of Religion. He has published 35 sole-authored books, including The Next Christendom: The Coming Of Global Christianity (2002) Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval (2021), and A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World (2023). The Economist has called him “one of America's best scholars of religion.”
Todd M. Johnson
Todd M. Johnson (PhD, William Carey International University) is the Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of Mission and Global Christianity and co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Johnson is Research Associate at Boston University’s Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs leading a research project on international religious demography. He is co-author of the World Christian Encyclopedia (2nd and 3rd editions), co-editor of the Atlas of Global Christianity, and series editor (with Ken Ross) of the 10-volume Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity series. He is co-editor of the World Christian Database and the World Religion Database (Brill).
Past Conferences
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2023
Educating for Contemporary Mission
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2022
Reconciliation: God's Mission through Missions for All
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2021
Communication(s) and Mission
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2020
The Past and Future of Evangelical Mission
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2019
Mission Amid Global Crises
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2018
Mission and Evangelism in a Secularizing World
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2017
Engaging theology, theologians, theological education in (or from) majority world contexts.
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2016
Missions and the Local Church
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2015
Controversies in Mission