Clarion Hotel and Conference Center
2480 Jonathan Moore Pike
Columbus, IN 47201
To book, call 812-372-1541 and tell them you are with the United Methodist Mission Conference.
Block rates are $89 per night, and are available until Oct. 23, 2014.
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Sponsored by the Indiana Conference and Global Ministries
Good intentions are not enough. How do you empower others without creating dependency? The paradigm shifting 50/50 Partnership equips your church to move from short-term, needs-based, charity to long-term, asset-based, development.
It’s a game changer! Thousands of clergy and laity across the United Methodist Church are using 50/50 to transform their outreach ministries into disciple-making movements with long lasting impact in their local neighborhoods and around the world. Join the movement!
.Patrick is the Director of In Mission Together (IMT) for Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church. IMT is a global partnership network which equips conferences, districts, churches and individuals for long term partnerships with long term impact. He leads a team of partnership coordinators that facilitate missional engagement within the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. They provide training in best practices for mobilization, multiplication and movement strategies. He developed the 50/50 Partnership Covenant for long-term, asset-based, development which is based on five core values: church planting, spiritual formation, community development, preventing dependency through self-sufficiency and communication through social networking.
Patrick is passionate about lay mobilization, Wesleyan class meetings and bi-vocational ministry. He has over twenty years of experience in pastoral leadership, missionary service, church planting and partnership development. He lived in the Baltic States and Russia for eight of those years as a congregational developer and leadership trainer. Prior to responding to the call to ministry, he was a public policy consultant and writer/producer for CNN International. Patrick received his Masters of Divinity degree from Candler School of Theology and is an ordained elder of the North Alabama Conference. He and his wife, Hannah, have twin boys, Clint and Sam.
David Phipps is a retired School Counselor living near Dayton, Ohio. He became involved in Missions shortly after graduation from Bethel College in Indiana. He has been on dozens of mission trips around the world, serving as team leader for several. He has served as interim Missions Director at Ginghamsburg Church, where he has attended since 1990. His understanding of missions took a leap forward through Community Health Evangelism (CHE) training. Since that time, he has joined the In Mission Together team, as a consultant, practitioner, and fan. In addition David is currently on New Path Board at Ginghamsburg, works on "Neighborhood Transformation" in Trotwood, OH, where Ginghamsburg's most recent church launch is located and is scheduled to "scout" an area of South Sudan to initiate the launch of a faith community using CHE as the entrance methodology.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
9:30 –10:00 a.m, Registration for 50/50 Equipping Workshop
10:00-11:00 Session 1: When Helping Hurts
50/50 Mission Partnerships for Long-Term Impact
11:00-12:00 Session 2: Glocal Partnerships for Community Transformation
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Session 3: Mobilization, Multiplication, Movement: The Wesleyan Way
2:00-3:00 Session 4: Implementation: 50/50 in Your Church
Optional Morning Activities
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Early Morning Worship with Global Partners
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Peer Learning Experience
Optional Friday Collaborative Workshop
Agenda
Join us for an opportunity to hear from practitioners working collaboratively in Lithuania! Learn how their experiences creating In Mission Together 50/50 Partnerships have transformed their churches...and how you can, too! Full Agenda
11:00 -- 12:00 p.m. Lunch
12:00 -- 9:00 p.m. In Mission Together 50/50 Partnership Collaborative featuring Lithuania
While this book exposes past and current development efforts that churches have engaged in which unintentionally undermine the people they're trying to help, its central point is to provide proven strategies that challenge Christians to help the poor empower themselves.