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Speaker: Anna Ho

Organization: Reconciled World

The power of wholistic discipleship to bring transformation: This session gives an overview of the Turth Centered Transformation (TCT) program, a program that has been running in Africa and Asia seeing hundreds of community moving out of poverty. This session explains what wholistic discipleship is and how it has been used to bring social, physical, economic and spiritual transformation to impoverished communities.

Speaker: Anthony Howard

Organization: Hinei House

Prayer: Teaching a Man to Fish: We will explore how prayer centered discipleship naturally fosters many of our core values in wholistic ministry and prepares new generations for self sustaining growth.

Speaker: Bobby Cox

Organization: GoTEN

Bible Storytelling in Evangelism and Discipleship: For thousands of years, the Bible has been passed on as oral stories. The promises God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were passed down by the Jewish people for generations before Genesis was ever written. Jesus used parables when he taught people about the things of God. God chose to use people to deliver his messages orally to the world. Learn how to use Bible Stories in evangelism and discipleship. Learn to share specially selected Bible stories that intersect people’s lives and invite the listener into a chronological Bible story group.

Speaker: David Hinman & Steve Hubler

Organization: Cityteam and Church Resource Ministries

How to Start and facilitate a Discovery Bible Study: In this session you will be equipped to use a powerful tool for making and multiplying new disciples; that is, a Discovery Bible Study. Specifically, you will discover how to transition from having a spiritual connection with a person of peace to start a Discovery Bible Group with them, their family, their friends and ultimately empower them to replicate this process with others.

Speaker: David Hinman & Steve Hubler

Organization: Cityteam and Church Resource Ministries

Unlocking Communities through the Persons of Peace: Jesus taught his team to find the people of peace who would grant them relational access to their community. These new partners were critical helpers in the disciples’ efforts to introduce the Gospel. In this session, you will learn how to identify these persons of peace and initiate the spiritual connections you need to be invited into their community.

Speaker: David Hinman & Steve Hubler

Organization: Cityteam and Church Resource Ministries

Igniting and Empowering a Disciple Making Movement: Praying Like Jesus: Igniting and sustaining a disciple making movement cannot be done through mere human effort. Success can only be gained when strategic effort is combined with strategic prayer. This session will equip you to mobilize a prayer team and implement a strategic prayer plan that will saturate the community or people group you’ve been called to reach and empower your efforts to make disciples among them.

Speaker: David Hinman & Steve Hubler

Organization: Cityteam and Church Resource Ministries

Discipleing Wholistic Disciple-Makers: Disciple Making Movements Overview and Rapid Reproduction. This session will equip you with a clear understanding of the critical elements of Gospel movements as well as the main principles and practices that drive them. You will also discover the methodologies that have allowed these movements to reproduce rapidly and become self-sustaining in over 100 nations in the world.

Speaker: Misael Cruz Godinez

Organization: CMFI

Is Your Church Doing What Jesus Did?: When Jesus began his ministry on Earth, he pictured it with the following words: the blind see, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor. Luke 7:22 (NLT). What he achieved can be summarized in one word: TRANSFORMATION. If he were still walking the street of our cities, what would he be achieving? Aren’t we, the church, supposed to be Jesus’ hands and feet? Didn’t he say “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.”? John14:12 (NLT). Why is the church not achieving the TRANSFORMATION Jesus did? It must be because the church is not being equipped to do what Jesus did. Let’s take responsibility for equipping God’s people to do his work.

Speaker: Ravi Jayakaran

Organization: Medical Ambassadors International

Integral/Wholistic mission: A practical way to share the Good News through WORD and DEED:The HWVA (Holistic Worldview Analysis) tool is a simple, practical and effective tool for engaging communities in Wholistic (Integral) Mission. This tool can be used in all contexts including restricted contexts where the context is one of aggressive opposition to the Gospel. Jesus declared His disciples to be ‘Light’ and ‘Salt’, and the HWVA tool is designed to train Community Transformation facilitators to do this as a seamless continuum. Participants in the workshop will learn how to use the tool and how to access further information that will help them in becoming proficient and effective Wholistic Disciple facilitators.

Speaker: Robert Priest

Organization: Taylor University

African Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities, Impact: Africa is a continent with exciting Christian vitality and growth, but African Christian leaders must confront significant challenges related to literacy, education, healthcare, economic development, peace and security, and the development of healthy governments. US partners sometimes play strategic roles in empowering African Christian leaders to wisely engage such realities. This workshop will consider highlights from the new book “African Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities, and Impact” (2017, Orbis), which is based on a survey of over 8,000 African Christians and on scores of interviews with high impact African Christian in diverse sectors of society. The workshop will focus especially on the ways in which partners from the USA can use this research (available in the book and supplemented in an accompanying set of on-line resources) to develop wise partnering relationships with a wide variety of Christian leaders.

Speaker: Anna Ho

Organization: Reconciled World

“Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies – Identify and address beliefs holding communities in poverty: This session looks at the power of truth to bring transformation. You will learn how to identify beliefs that hold communities in poverty and how to bring truth that transforms.

Speaker: Anna Ho and Heather Hicks

Organization: Reconciled World

The Truth Centered Transformation Program: Over 1000 villages have moved out of poverty as a result of the TCT program. This session is for those who want to implement the TCT program, or want to understand it better. It’s a step-by-step guide reviewing the goals, overview of the program and presenting the tools that are available for use.

Speaker: Larry Frick

Organization: GO International

Wholistic Approach to Reaching Unreached People Groups: To complete the Great Commission, we must focus on reaching the remaining unreached people groups. These people tend to be historically resistant or even hostile to the Gospel. They also tend to reside among the most economically disadvantaged populations. A biblical, wholistic approach can meet needs, show God’s love and break down barriers to the Gospel. This session will explore Biblical and missiological principles of ministry to unreached peoples. We will discuss the reasons for using an integrated approach and give ideas and examples to help stimulate the attendees to utilize a wholistic approach in their ministry context. We will include examples from different settings to show how this approach can be adapted to different situations.

Speaker: Nam Ho and Heather Hicks

Organization: Reconciled World

Working with Local Churches: This workshop will discuss how to partner successfully with churches around the world, as church partnerships across cultures can be tricky. In this session we share best practices that we have learned in 20 years of partnering with churches. We will also address any key questions on how to partner more successfully.

Speaker: Nam Ho

Organization:Reconciled World

Mobilizing Local Resources: This workshop will discuss how to recognize and mobilize the local resources God has given to people experiencing poverty. In the past 15 years we have been amazed at the ways materially poor people have given. As they do we have seen churches grow in their faith and love for God. In this session we will look at how to teach churches and individuals to use what God has given them to serve others.

Speaker: Steve Otradovec

Organization: World Poverty Solutions

Community Ownership: Sustainable community development that dignifies and transforms moves from the inside-out. With good intention, many development efforts often take the opposite approach sending an influx of money, experts and ideas to fix the world’s problems. However, sustainable development begins and ends with local ownership, local resources and local capacity. Our role as outsiders is simply to equip, motivate and empower locals to identify their own needs and creatively access local resources to meet those needs. Building projects is not the goal, it’s building people! Through active listening, relationship building and empowerment, significant community transformation is possible. When empowered local people take ownership of their own development, they use local knowledge, God-given creativity and assets within reach.

Speaker: Linda Brock

Organization: CMF International

Integrating DMM and CHE: Part 1, Case Studies: We will learn how international practitioners are successfully integrating CHE and DMM as we seek to create relevant training for CHE and DMM practitioners impacting the Majority World.

Speaker: Judy Fish

Organization: Team Expansion

Integrating DMM and CHE: Part 2, Curriculum Development Roundtable: Are you one of the many who are seeking to integrate a more holistic approach to their ministry AND be obedient to make disciples who will make disciples? This workshop is for you! We invite you to bring your experience, passion and wisdom in CHE and DMM in hopes of developing a training curriculum. As a follow-up of the ‘Integrating CHE and DMM…Part 1 (Case Studies) workshop, we will delve into the nuts and bolts of creating a training template to be used by CHE and DMM practitioners serving in the majority world. All participants will receive a condensed document of the roundtable discussions.

Speaker: Hal J Jones

Organization: GHNI

Finishing the Task and Global CHE Network Update

Speaker: Andreas Steffensen and Ben Demblowski

World Poverty Solutions

Working together – developing sustainable partnerships: A lot of things can go wrong in partnerships from simple disagreements to mission drift. How do we ensure that our partnerships withstand the pitfalls and flourish? How do we complement each other? How do we collaborate, without controlling? In this seminar, we will discuss how to plan and execute sustainable, equitable partnerships. We will look at how to build proper foundations for partnerships, and consider ways to plan and work together. Finally, we will consider how we can assess the fruit of our collaboration.

Speaker: Anthony Howard

Organization: Hinei House

Establishing a Culture of Prayer in Your Organization: We will discuss effective strategies for launching, developing and sustaining a culture of prayer in your organization. We will further explore practical ways that empowered prayer cultures foster wholistic ministry.

Speaker: Calvin Edwards & Jim McGee

Organization: Calvin Edwards & Company

Introduction to Missions Evaluation: What It Is & How It Can Help Your Organization: Increasingly, ministries are adopting practices to assess the fruit of their outreach. Outcome-based evaluation—adapted from the social sciences—has been carefully re-worked to help assess the way God is blessing ministry strategies. This information is being used to inform prayer, steward resources, support strategic decisions, and communicate with donors. In this eye-opening session you will learn about kingdom values behind program evaluation and how outcome thinking can help your organization.
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Speaker: Calvin Edwards & Jim McGee

Organization: Calvin Edwards & Company

Developing a System for Outcomes Monitoring & Evaluation: Program evaluation as a tool for thoughtful decision-making is fairly new to missions. Increasingly, agencies are utilizing program evaluation to assess the impact of their work. But, strictly speaking, program evaluation is done on one program, at one place, at one time. Yet, mission agencies work around the world in diverse settings. How does program evaluation apply in such a situation? This session explores practical ways missions leadership can introduce outcome-based assessments ministry-wide. Doing so can improve effectiveness, increase funding, and usher in a new era of informed prayer and thoughtful decision-making based on well-stewarded information.

Speaker: Calvin Edwards

Organization: Calvin Edwards & Company

What (Major) Donors Want: Mr. Edwards draws on nearly two decades of experience advising major donors as a philanthropic consultant—including some of the nation’s biggest givers. He will discuss the mindset of a major donor and seven key things that major donors want in the organizations to which they give. He will also suggest actions that will help your ministry have the characteristics that donors are looking for. “Three generations” of donor types will be profiled along with the differences between them, how to approach them, and which donor type is especially productive for fundraising.

Speaker: Calvin Edwards

Organization: Calvin Edwards & Company

How Your Ministry Makes a Difference: Developing a Theory of Change: Ministry colleagues work together for good, but they sometimes differ on how or why lives are changed. Others may not think at all about how change occurs. This can lead to disagreement on strategy, resource allocation, and messaging. The concept of Theory of Change addresses these issues and has become popular in recent years. In this session Mr. Edwards will differentiate between a Logic Model and a Theory of Change, and focus on what a Theory of Change is, how to develop yours, and how to use it in strategy development, program design, and fundraising. He will also discuss Theory of Change in relation to the currently popular movement of “Collective Impact.” Practical implications for your organization will be suggested.

Speaker: Calvin Edwards

Organization: Calvin Edwards & Company

Panel & Audience Discussion: Lessons Learned, Confessions, & Future Trends Within Wholistic Mission: This is a “free for all” conversation about organizational development, program evaluation, attracting more donors, and strategy implementation. There will be substantial audience participation so bring your 2-3-minute case study, experience, or questions to share—and let’s learn from each other. Also, evaluation experts and donor advisors will share hard-learned lessons from the trenches. This session will go where the audience takes it, so fasten your seat belts! But you can be sure that you will take away insights to drive your organization forward.

Speaker: Jason Paltzer

Organization: Grand Canyon University

“Training a Christian Public Health Workforce: Public health is becoming an increasingly recognized framework to carry out health ministry programs through the local church. Christian public health training programs have a unique opportunity to increase the capacity and awareness of future public health leaders to work alongside the local church as necessary partners in wholistic ministry and transformational development. This workshop will present the results of a survey from Christian public health training programs regarding perceptions and opportunities for integrating unique ministry competencies into their training programs. In addition, the presentation will discuss examples of public health internships and field experiences with Global CHE Network partners and the expectations that should be set to create a mutually beneficial experience.

Speaker: Lisa Jonas

Organization: Partners International

“From Complex to Clear: One Ministry’s Guide to Organizational Development: Spiritual health, vision and strategy, leadership values, ministry infrastructure, relationships and communications, and financial well-being. These are all critical elements in the growth of an organization, but when looked at as a whole can be an overwhelming undertaking to tackle. Partners International has developed a process through which we work together with local, indigenous ministries to break down the needs into doable pieces through assessing organizational development needs, the creation of strategic plans that integrate areas of potential growth, and ongoing follow-up evaluating advancement. Key resources are important to the growth process, but so are the building of relationships and creation of networks where opportunity arises.

Speaker: Mark Santiago

Organization: Converge Digital

How to Navigate the Perilous Waters of Facebook Fundraising: As a growing NonProfit, do you worry about the success of your online giving program? Maybe you’ve recently experimented with new ways to get donors through tools like Facebook ads, or you’re starting to think about how you can use Facebook advertising to your advantage. Don’t get stuck trying to navigate the perilous waters of Facebook fundraising without the help you need. In this class, Mark Santiago, CEO & Founder of Converge Digital, will give you the very foundation you need to create a Facebook ads budget that your organization can grow with. Learn how to turn likes into donors and show your executive team how your organization can use Facebook ads to thrive in 2018. You will also get access to real live case studies from clients we work with such as Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, and United States Holocaust Museum.

Speaker: Anna Sherod

Organization: Kingdom Workers

Decentralized Solutions and Friendship in Hurting Communities: What approaches can we use to give away power, handing over the keys to our programs to local hands, understanding that the “vehicle” we created may be torn apart and remade? How can we decentralize power in our organizations as we expand to reach various cultures and communities? How can we co-create plans for long-term sustainability, and what does reciprocity and friendship have to do with it? As program founders, designers, or coordinators we may be getting in our own way. Let’s explore together how the final stage of the MADD (Map, Analyze, Develop, and then Decentralize) process applies to our programs. We know that those in the most vulnerable communities have knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual gifts to offer. We’ll talk practically about what it means to build friendships within a program, give away control, and set our programs free to have organic local growth.

Speaker: Anthony Howard

Organization: Hinei House

Prayer is Leadership, Leadership is Prayer: We will explore the integral connection between prayer and effective leadership. We will further discuss practical ways to live out vibrant and effective leadership that is firmly rooted in a lifestyle of prayer.

Speaker: Dave Drum

Organization: 4 Tucson

Humility – the Secret Sauce: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb Most people are fans of unity and collaboration. Some of the biggest fans of Christian unity are non-Christian. Everyone talks about it – but what would help us actually progress in visible, tangible ways? What I keep learning after seven years of working full time to see Jesus’ John 17 prayer for visible unity answered in our city is that almost everything tracks back to one word: humility. Unity/harmony/collaboration will go as far as humility takes it, and no farther. This workshop will address some foundational Biblical principles of humility – such as that the Bible doesn’t command us to be humble, it commands us to humble ourselves. But the emphasis will be on practical implications, not just theological truth. If it doesn’t show up practically… it’s not humility.

Speaker: Jon Taylor

Organization: Coaching Missions International

A Leader’s Life Purpose:
Every individual has a destiny in God’s economy. There is a task you have to do – but even more, there is something you were born to be – to embody Jesus in a unique way to those around you. How do you discover your calling, and help others find theirs?

Speaker: Kim Kargbo

Organization: Women of Hope International

Spiritual Formation – The Missing Link to Wholistic Ministry:
As leaders, we often focus our attention and strategies on the “recipients” of our ministries, rather than on the “ministers” themselves. We spend time thinking about how to disciple “them” and ignore discipleship and spiritual formation in our own lives and the lives of our co-workers. Come and explore together how practices of spiritual formation can strengthen our ministries – from the inside out.

Speaker: Kim Kargbo

Organization: Women of Hope International

Does Your Organization Have “Culture Stress?”
Does Your Organization Have “Culture Stress?”- Just like nations and ethnic groups have a culture, organizations and ministries have a culture as well. Our culture defines the way we operate and interact, often without intent or cognitive awareness. Come and discuss what makes a healthy, Christ-centered culture for an organization and how to begin to shift the culture if it is unhealthy.

Speaker: Cherie Gray

Organization: Tucson Refugee Ministry

How the Church is doing wholistic ministry with refugees in AZ: This panel discussion will feature innovative leaders of outreach to refugees in Arizona. They have successfully built cross-cultural partnerships and have designed sustainable, volunteer-driven models helping refugees build new lives and integrate into American society. Their approach is based on their Christian faith but is not a bait-and-switch. Come learn how God is discipling the nations through his Church right here in Arizona.

Speaker: Diana Mood

Organization:The Global Transformation Network

Why Care about Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations: An interactive discussion about why this a GCN core value and why our network is being encouraged to engage the most vulnerable groups with the Gospel NOW. Help shape practical recommendations about how to implement this value in response to Christ’s directives.

Speaker: Jacob Tornga

Organization:International Associates for Refugees

The Recovery Continuum: How to Effectively Engage in Refugee Ministry: Learning the Recovery Continuum will give you 5 important principles for doing healthy and effective ministry with refugees, especially in a refugee camp context. We will discuss current global trends along the refugee highway, the major breakdowns in the traditional humanitarian based response to a refugee crisis, and how we can develop a more sustainable model for healthy and effective work with refugees.

Speaker: Jody Collinge & Lovemore Zulu

Global CHE Network & CHEEP

How God is at Work through Community Health Evangelism in Zambia: We have been invited by the government to introduce CHE to children their schools. We hope through children’s CHE that we will be able to open new areas to evangelize to the Muslims. We have seen children sharing what they are learning through children’s CHE materials to their fellow children and parents. CHE has become a tool for church planting and expansion in different communities of Zambia. Through children’s CHE, many schools in Zambia have seen behavior change in the children, and also these children are sharing Christ and good health. Theses opportunities have been created through CHE ministry. Children are sharing with adults and are doing projects to help other children go to school.

Speaker: Lisa Olson

Organization: Manyata Ministries
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Acceptance with a Purpose Those Among Us? – Recognizing the different forms of being poor and marginalized. •What Do Others Say? – Understanding the role that culturally based beliefs play. •Acceptance Does Not Mean Giving Up. • What Will You Commit? – Accepting what you can offer. •Discovering Your Purpose – Putting faith into action.

Speaker: Maggie Conrad

Medical Ambassadors

Effective and Emerging Resources for Working with Women, Men and Families Women’s Cycle of Life/Family Cycle of Life has positively impacted communities around the world. Other curriculum (CHE Perinatal, Men Matter, Healthy Birthing Life Saving Skills, 1000 Days) have brought life (physical, spiritual, relational) to individuals, families and marriages. Interested? Come hear about what is happening and the available resources to help you empower people in need. If you used Women’s Cycle of Life or Family CHE, we invite you to come and share your experiences, challenges, ideas and successes as we work together to bring hope to the nations. These curriculum are facilitated as a part of Community Health Evangelism/CHE.

Speaker: Mary Kaech

Organization: Phoenix Refugee Connections

The Nations Are Here: Primer on Refugee Resettlement in the US: Since 1975, the US has welcomed more than 3 million refugees from all over the world—people of all faiths and backgrounds. We know from Scripture that God uses forced migration to accomplish his plans. With more refugees in the world today than at any time in modern history, what might God be up to? What does he want from his Church in light of the global refugee crisis? We will cover the who, what, where, when, why and how of the US’s refugee-resettlement program, and we will consider the unique ability of the Church to bring God’s healing and hope to these most vulnerable people.

Speaker: Randiesia Fletcher

Organization: Refugee Resource Center

Maybe Poor but not Helpless: The ramifications are strong for children victimized by mental and material poverty. There’s a correlation between poverty and psychological outcomes, in which include long-term behavioral and emotional problems, including from my own experience, anger, depression, PTSD, suicide attempts, homicidal tendencies, job-loss, abuse, divorce, promiscuity, rape, and unplanned pregnancies. Trauma leaves scars, evoking a lasting poverty of the mind. It makes it difficult for one to recuperate socially and emotionally. It prompts poor self-esteem, irrational decision-making, poor self-control, and cycles of self-damning abuse—a diminishing of well-being and emotional intelligence. With the lack of resources and the lack of mental capacity, it can be difficult to overcome the deficit of brokenness. I continue to overcome these barriers by teaching others that there is hope. Fortunately, broken relationships can be restored.

Speaker: Sarah Gesiriech

Organization: Faith to Action Initiative

Caring for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Children Grow Best in Families: Christians around the world are rising to the Biblical call to respond to the needs of the orphaned and vulnerable. Both Scripture and social science demonstrate that the ideal place to raise a child is within a family, and there is a growing body of evidence to help guide faith-inspired work. This workshop covers significant findings that demonstrate the importance of family care and the limitations of orphanages, an introduction to the range of wholistic family care options, explores guiding principles for family and community-based care of orphans and vulnerable children, and provides practical tools and resources for becoming an advocate for family-based care in your church and beyond.

Speaker: Terry Graham

Organization: The Global Transformation Network

Who’s Missing? How to Engage Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations: An interactive discussion about GCN members and affiliates currently equipping the NETWORK to accomplish this task reviewing their targeted resources, education, training, ministry models, etc. and concluding with what and who’s on YOUR heart and what’s next for the GCN network.

Speaker: Andy McDowell & Chuck McDaniel

With Love Market & Cafe

Subtleties of Business as Mission (BAM) Evangelism: A departure from conventional missions with an intriguing approach to advancing the Kingdom. An interview style discussion of the Great Commission in the context of a “for profit” BAM (Business as Mission) venture – outside the walls of church, and beyond the appearance of overt ministry. How do we sidestep the obvious, and bring focus to the subtle, while injecting the love of Christ into a culture of social irreverence?

Speaker: Carla Davis & Samuel

Organization: Partners International

Economic Empowerment for Women – Challenges and Opportunities – Learning from Central Asia: When women develop their capacity to generate income, they increase in stature, confidence and abilities to meet physical, social and spiritual needs in their family. Carla and Samuel (from Central Asia) will facilitate discussion on challenges of enterprise development in a difficult place in the majority world. A case study will be presented for a vocational training center that has trained over 500 women from different backgrounds and is expanding into village training centers that are owned by the community.

Speaker: Courtney O’Connell

Organization: World Relief

Savings Groups as a Vehicle for Wholistic Ministry: In the communities where we work, what’s the most common answer to the question: “What’s one thing you want to work on in your community?” We at World Relief most commonly hear “reduce poverty!” Come hear how World Relief uses the Savings for Life (SFL) program to empower churches to serve the most vulnerable. Through interactive demonstrations, participants will understand the low-cost, highly sustainable SFL model including the integration of Biblical discussions, narrative stories, and group Bible Study guides. This session will share the wholistic impact of SFL including recent research on how SFL influences marriage and household dynamics. Learn and consider how integrating a savings program like SFL into your other development programs can multiply the impact and create healthier and stronger families. This session will explore principles on how to integrate savings groups into other programs as well as how to build a sustainable economic development model.

Speaker: Dale Stanton-Hoyle

Organization:Five Talents

Five Talents: Walking through the five steps of community transformation and economic empowerment: 1. Group Formation, 2. Biblical Principles, 3. Education and Savings Programs, 4. Mentoring and Lending, 5. Growth, Repayment, and Sustainability.

Speaker: Ena Richards

Organization: Work 4 A Living

EQUIPPING THE POOR TO WORK: changing mindsets and entrenching excellence:

Speaker: Joe Knittig

Organization: GOEX

New Commerce: Breaking the Orphan Cycle Through the Power of Commerce: Old Commerce is an Oligarchy. Technology moguls, industry titans, and politicians lock arms to form the Oligarch that dominates commerce and even daily life itself. The Oligarch aims to control and consolidate. The Oligarch drives the ever-widening income gap between the rich and poor, and the increasing elimination of the middle class. Real human connection is on the decline; division, without real relationship, is on the rise. The Oligarch seems an unstoppable force. New Commerce declares war on the Oligarch. We see the global marketplace as the arena to disrupt the Oligarchy through the intentional creation (and consumer support) of businesses that (1) connect makers and buyers to care for each other through basic commercial activity, and (2) leverage capitalism for bottom-up community change.

Speaker: Wallace Kamau Kanyuira

Organization: Missions of Hope International/ CMF International

Turning Problems into Business Opportunities to Wholistically Empower the Poor: Poverty and oppression is an indication of spiritual darkness, but the Gospel light of Jesus when ministered wholistically, opens the doors for transformation of poor communities. Missions of Hope International started as a preschool with 50 children who gave access to their families and neighbors, opening the door for wholistic ministry to the whole family. Through Microfinance, the families are empowered economically as they’re also evangelized intentionally. As the children receive education, their families and communities are opened up to wholistic empowerment. Using CHE materials, the community members are trained, which leads them to take personal initiatives as they identify business and other opportunities in solving problems within their communities. With Microfinance training and Credit availability, they’re empowered and transformed.