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Communities of Shalom National Summit this week will be video streamed live and free of charge from Columbia, South Carolina, beginning Thursday morning, October 29, at 9:30 am EST.
If the purpose of a National Summit is to bring together representatives from a national network for a time of personal sharing, inspiration, team building and training, then this year’s National Shalom Summit will fulfill this purpose and more through video streaming sessions to those who are unable to attend in person.
According to Dr. Michael Christensen, National Director of Communities of Shalom, over 300 are expected at the 3-day Summit at the Radisson Hotel in Columbia, SC; and hundreds more in the USA and Africa may view the Summit online and participate via social networking sites.
“When the General Board of Global Ministries offered to netcast the Summit, I was delighted,” said Dr. Christensen who arrived in Columbia on Monday with his staff for final preparations. “I knew that this was a virtual sign and tangible indication that there was sufficient momentum in the Shalom movement to ‘step up’ to a new level of web technology for this once small grass-roots initiative called ‘shalom zones.’"
All four General Training Sessions plus the two worship services and the Shalom Banquet will be video streamed through the online facilities of the General Board of Global Ministries, the mission agency of The United Methodist Church--a partner of Communities of Shalom at Drew University and co-sponsor of the National Summit.
These sessions focus on how to ‘step up’ from social services to asset-based community development, and from ministries of mercy to seeking peace with justice. Specific sessions on prophetic leadership and ‘shaloming across borders’, as well as a glimpse of new Shalom Zone training units and the use of web technology to develop Shalom's presence in the world, will be webcast on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29-31.
Here's the direct link to the video stream of the Summit: http://gbgm-umc.org/shalom.
Communities of Shalom National Summit this week will be video streamed live and free of charge from Columbia, South Carolina, beginning Thursday morning, October 29, at 9:30 am EST.
If the purpose of a National Summit is to bring together representatives from a national network for a time of personal sharing, inspiration, team building and training, then this year’s National Shalom Summit will fulfill this purpose and more through video streaming sessions to those who are unable to attend in person.
According to Dr. Michael Christensen, National Director of Communities of Shalom, over 300 are expected at the 3-day Summit at the Radisson Hotel in Columbia, SC; and hundreds more in the USA and Africa may view the Summit online and participate via social networking sites.
“When the General Board of Global Ministries offered to netcast the Summit, I was delighted,” said Dr. Christensen who arrived in Columbia on Monday with his staff for final preparations. “I knew that this was a virtual sign and tangible indication that there was sufficient momentum in the Shalom movement to ‘step up’ to a new level of web technology for this once small grass-roots initiative called ‘shalom zones.’"
All four General Training Sessions plus the two worship services and the Shalom Banquet will be video streamed through the online facilities of the General Board of Global Ministries, the mission agency of The United Methodist Church--a partner of Communities of Shalom at Drew University and co-sponsor of the National Summit.
These sessions focus on how to ‘step up’ from social services to asset-based community development, and from ministries of mercy to seeking peace with justice. Specific sessions on prophetic leadership and ‘shaloming across borders’, as well as a glimpse of new Shalom Zone training units and the use of web technology to develop Shalom's presence in the world, will be webcast on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29-31.
Here's the direct link to the video stream of the Summit: http://gbgm-umc.org/shalom.
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