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360 Degree Preaching and Leadership, 20th September, Oxford

360 Degree Preaching and Leadership

A unique opportunity to improve your preaching as the world renowned Michael Quicke, author of 360 degree preaching and 360 degree leadership makes a rare visit to the UK. Enjoy a day in an Oxford University college and a chance to sharpen your skills with other preachers.

Date: 20 September

Time: 10:30 - 4:30

Cost: £30 including lunch and tea/coffee

Location: Regent's Park College, Oxford

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More details and last chance to book the Social Media Boot Camp, 4th September

Only a few days until our Social Media Boot Camp, Saturday 4th September, in London.  Registration is £10 and booking details are here.  Places are limited and filling up quickly.    

Designed as a practical 'how to' of understanding and using social media, for individuals and organisations, here is an agenda of what Dave Merwin of Pure Blue and Lee Goodger of Spook Media will be taking us through.

Morning with Dave Merwin

 * Personal Branding - Narrating your work: What is it?, How does it work?

* Examples From The Real World: Faith Autopsy, Hollywood Pastor, Jason Calacanis, Kevin Rose

* Case Study: Blogging, Twitter, Facebook in the real world

* Personas: Identifying Your Users, Writing a persona

* What the tools are: An exploration of social media tools, Google Analytics, and other Services

* Publishing content: Push To Services, Email publishing

* Budgets: If the tech exists... what do we do with our budgets? Building Apps

*  Managing expectations - baby steps (crawl, walk, run)

Afternoon with Lee Goodger

*  Listen to your audience (immediate and virtual)

*  Creating a digital ecosystem: Using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr & YouTube

*  Setting objectives and a social media policy:  Setting the tone, Maintaining your presence

*  Crowdsourcing – what is it and how to use it

*  Managing your reputation online

*  The future of Social Media on/offline

*  Simple checklist and guiding principles 

The event is in partnership between George Fox Seminary, EA UK, London School of Theology, and the London Institute of Christianity.

Can you help us discover and tell a bigger missional story? #dmingml

Our new Global Missional Leadership learning community that I am leading for George Fox Seminary, kicks off September 1st.

You can follow along online, or meet up with us in person, with all the reading, lectures/teaching and conversations from the programme being made available online.  You can help us discover and tell a big missional story.

*** If this new learning community grabs your attention and interest, please do help us spread the word through your Twitter, Facebook, and blog networks.  Do add the tag #dmingml to you posts/tweets so we can track them, thanks.

George Fox have invested heavily in some ground breaking social media technology, enabling content creators from all over the world to tell a bigger global missions story. I'll write more about this in a post later this week.

Some big headlines for this week:

1.  dmingml.com is the site to visit and book mark, that pulls through all the blogs, Facebook, and Tweets that relate to the Global Missional Leadership community.

2.  Face 2 Face:  If you want to join us in person we are at these locations and dates, 2010.

1st September: Rippon College, Oxford.  
An afternoon with Martyn Percy at Rippon College.  Martyn will be talking about congregations and missions. Jim Belcher author of 'Deep Church', and Dr Michael Moynagh author of Emergingchurch.intro is also joining us for the afternoon.
To register for this event please email jason@jasonclark.ws

Dr Cathy Ross who is moving from CMS to LST, will be with us talking about missiology from a woman's perspective.  Dr Caroline Ramsey, lecturer in business management at the Open University, will be talking with us about the nature of 'reflective practice' itself within leadership and mission.  And we have Antony Billington, head of faculty at the London Institute of Christianity, talking with us about cultural hermeneutics, and discipleship in a post-modern context.
To register for this event please email jason@jasonclark.ws

3rd September: Ridley hall, Cambridge
We'll be meeting with David Male, to explore Fresh Expressions and mission, and with Dr Maggi Dawn, who will sharing about her new book.
To register for this event please email jason@jasonclark.ws

4th September:  London, UK
Social Media Boot Camp, hosted at London Institute of Christianity, in partnership with EA UK and, LST. The Social Media boot camp will explore, safely, personally and simply: What is Social Media, why is it here and why is it important; The main popular tools of Social Media including blogging, Facebook and Twitter; How you might better use Social Media for your own communication and life and How your organisations, church, and ministry might engage strategically and meaningfully with Social Media.

More details and registration for this event is here.

6th to 7th September:  Nuremberg and Erlangen, Germany.  
Meeting with Dr Peter Aschoff,and exploring mission, culture and church history.

So you are all welcome to join us at any of these venues to take part in the events scheduled.  Also around the events we'll be exploring the locations we are in. Making plenty of space and time to talk, eat and explore, to which all are welcome.

Social Media Training events this Autumn in London

 

So this autumn there are some great social media training events that compliment each other greatly, all in London:
 
4th September – Social Media Boot Camp at LICC, that I have organised in partnership with EA UK, LICC and LST.  A days training from top coaches involved in social media.  A 'how to' for individual and organisations, to get up to speed with using social media and understanding it's possibilities for individuals and organisations.
 
16th October – Theological Refraction on the Internet – set up by CODEC as part of Premier Media’s Christian New Media Conference but aimed to bring together theologians and media theorists.  Other parts of the CNM Conference will speak to Christian Leaders and Tecchies.  This event is the reflective, 'what goes on within social media interns of identity and formation, and its relationship to theology.
 
30th November – The next Digi-Mission event by EA UK Slipstream.  I'm involved in the planning for this and will be taking part.  The theme is Social Media and Social Change.  How can churches engage in social media for change in their local communities.  Early days for info on this yet, but it will be at All Souls, Langham Place, London.

Cory Doctorow & China Mieville event, 7 pm on 20th July, Clerkenwell, London

Two of my favourite authors Cory Doctorow & China Mieville are going to be at Clerkenwell Tales (a very cool independent book store in the trendy Exmouth Market).  They do make me wonder if I should change my mundane anglo saxon surname to Melkis.
 
Entry is free, but by reservation only.  Email Clerkenwell Tales to RSVP.  Clerkenwell Tales have told me that the event is proving so popular that it is now being held in the Church of the Holy Redeemer, next door to the book store.

 

   
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Stanley Hauerwas in Conversation with John Milbank & Luke Bretherton, Kings College London, 18th October, 5:30pm

Put Monday 18th October, 5:30pm in your diaries for this event at Kings College, London.

New missional 'open learning' community UK & Germany Sept 2010

So the Global Missional Leadership Doctor of Ministry programme that I am leading for George Fox, is due to start 1st September.
I've written about the program previously, and details are here.
 
But you don't have to be a student on the DMin program to take part with us. In fact we are hoping that this program will resource a much wider learning community, centred around the theme of the program, on missional leadership for 'reflective practitioners'.
 
All the materials from the programme, reading, online resources, recordings from events will be put online for anyone to follow along with us.
 
In terms of events, we are meeting at the locations below, that anyone is welcome to join us at.
 
1st September: Rippon College, Oxford.  An afternoon with Martyn Percy at Rippon College.  Martyn will be talking about congregations and missions. Jim Belcher is also joining us for the afternoon.
 
2nd September:  London School of Theology.  In particular Cathy Ross who is moving from CMS to LST, will be with us talking about missiology from a woman's perspective.  I've attached one of her papers to this post fyi.
 
3rd September: Ridley hall, Cambridge.  We'll be meeting with David Male, to explore Fresh Expressions and mission, and with Maggi Dawn, who will sharing about her new book.
 
4th September:  Social Media Boot Camp, hosted at London Institute of Christianity, in partnership with EA UK and, LST.
 
6th to 7th September:  Nuremberg and Erlangen, Germany.  Meeting with Peter Aschoff, and exploring mission, culture and church history.

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Listen to Rowan Williams, David Ford, Jürgen Moltmann, Miroslav Volf: Holy Spirit in the World Today conference

How on earth did I miss this event!  I read about it from my kiwi friend Paul Fromont, who provides links to the online talks here.

Social Media Boot Camp: London, Saturday 4th September 2010

Advance notice of this event that I've been planning.

 

Social Media Boot Camp

Date: Saturday 4th September 2010

Location: London Institute of Contemporary Christianity 

Timings:  9:30am - 3:30pm

Costs: £10 registration

 

Social Media has exploded into everyday life with people sharing a tidal wave of photos, videos, words and audio.  It’s no longer a question of whether to get involved in Social Media, but how to.

 

The Social Media boot camp on Saturday 4th September will explore, safely, personally and simply:

  1. What is Social Media, why is it here and why is it important?
  2. The main popular tools of social media including blogging, Facebook and Twitter
  3. How you might better use Social Media for your own communication and life
  4. How your organisations, church, and ministry might engage strategically and meaningfully with Social Media

We’ll be led on the day by two Christians who are experts in social media, Dave Merwin of Pure Blue, and Lee Goodger of Edelman.  

 

The organisations partnering in this event (Evangelical Alliance UK, London Institute of Contemporary Christianity, London School of Theology and George Fox Seminary), are passionate about resourcing Christians and the local church, as they themselves learn to work with Social Media.

 

So for an orientation for you and your organisation around Social Media, make sure you book your place early.  Registration links will be up and working from 1st July 2010. 

 

Any questions do email me at jason@jasonclark.ws


p.s Inspiration for title of this event came from friends here.

Capitalism, Imagination and Desire

Here is an event on 7th June, that I wish I had known about earlier, and would have loved to attend.

Capitalism, Imagination and Desire

Mark Sampson, with the LICC team

Monday June 7

Capitalism shapes us, even disciples us. Our imagination and desires are formed through the forces of our culture. Capitalism profoundly affects our communities, our marriages, our vocation and our education.

The recent financial crisis has been a catalyst for economists and politicians to rethink the fundamental basis of our capitalist economy, provoking a conversation about what sort of market economy is best suited to our society.

But what has capitalism cost our churches, our theology and our discipleship?

This evening lecture and discussion will explore how the values, desires and logic of capitalism impact all of life, and will begin to craft the outlines of possible practical responses, rooted in a biblical and theological imagination.

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