Building Below the Water Line 

 

Registration Deadline extended

to February 22, 2013

Our vision for training events in the Eastern Region is to provide quality training opportunities for pastors and church leaders in the Eastern Region with the health of the local church as our primary goal.  With pastoral health and church health as our foremost concerns, we will seek to provide training opportunities that are not only relevant to the pastor's ministry, but also aim at the pastor's head (edification), the pastor's heart (encouragement), and the pastor's hands (enrichment).

We are proud to present our speaker for the Conference, Dr. Gordon MacDonald.  

Pastor Gordon MacDonald serves as chancellor for Denver Seminary.  Pastor Gordon MacDonald served as interim president of Denver Seminary during the 2008-2009 academic year.

He is an author, speaker, and teacher, and was a pastor for more than 40 years, serving most recently as the senior minister at Grace Chapel, Lexington, Massachusetts. When he stepped down from that position, the Grace Chapel congregation honored him with the title of Pastor Emeritus. Other pastorates included New York City, southern Illinois, and Kansas. Gordon MacDonald was also president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for three years.

Pastor MacDonald's academic background includes a BA from the University of Colorado (1962), and a MDiv from Denver Seminary (1966). Denver Seminary awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 2011, and Barrington College (which later merged with Gordon College) awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1979.

He has written more than 12 books and co-authored others with his wife, Gail. Perhaps his best known book has been Ordering Your Private World which won the Gold Medallion and the Platinum Awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association. There are almost 1.5 million copies of this book in print, and it has been translated into a dozen languages. Among his other books are Secrets of a Generous Life, Renewing Your Spiritual Passion, Mid-Course Correction, and A Resilient Life. His most recent books are Going Deep: Becoming a Person of Influence (2011) and Building Below the Waterline: Shoring Up the Foundations of Leadership (2011). He writes regularly for Leadership Journal and also writes a column which appears on the LeadershipJournal.net website.

MacDonald serves as editor-at-large with Leadership Journal, a publication of Christianity Today, Inc. Until September of 2007, he was the chairman of the board of World Relief Corporation, an NAE-associated relief and development organization committed to the alleviation of suffering and poverty in the areas of HIV/AIDS, micro-enterprise development, refugee resettlement, and disaster assistance. He also speaks frequently at conferences for the Willow Creek Association, both in the United States and in other parts of the world. Privately, he engages with company leaders as an executive coach.

Gordon and Gail MacDonald have been married 51 years and live in New Hampshire. Their great satisfaction is in their two married children and five grandchildren. The MacDonald’s are also hikers, bikers, kayakers, and voracious readers.

 

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