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 Alan is the founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network. He is the co-founder of shapevine.com an international forum for engaging with world transforming ideas. He is also part of the leadership team of Christian Associates, a missional church-planting agency with focus on Western Europe. Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is a teacher and key mission strategist for churches across the western world. His popular book The Shaping of Things to Come (with Michael Frost) is widely considered to be a seminal text on mission. Alan's recent book The Forgotten Ways, has quickly become a key reference for missional thinking, particularly as it relates to movements. His new book ReJesus (out late 08) is a radical restatement about the role that Jesus plays in defining missional movements. His experience in leadership includes leading a local church movement among the marginalized as well as heading up the Mission and Revitalization work of his denomination. Alan is an adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary and lectures frequently throughout Australia, Europe, and the U.S. |
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 Eddie Gibbs serves as senior professor of church growth in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller and has been on the faculty since 1984. He is also director of the Institute for the Study of Emerging Churches, in the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. The author of popular church growth text Church Next, he speaks about evangelism and church growth around the world. Currently, his academic interests include evangelizing nominal Christians, assisting local churches in becoming evangelizing churches, and developing the Church's response to modernity and post-modernity in becoming a missionary presence. |
 Gary Nelson is now the General Secretary of Canadian Baptist Ministries after pastoring for over 20 years. He is a writer, a sought after speaker and teacher and travels extensively equipping missionaries in missional adventures around the globe. His upcoming book deals with the Missional Church from a much needed perspective - what does it look like locally. |
 Glenn Smith is a scholar, a teacher, a writer, a speaker and the director of Christian Direction in Montreal Canada. He serves on numerous boards and is an advisor for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. Glenn has done extensive writing on the missional church specifically around the subject of city and neighbourhood transformation.
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 John Stackhouse is an award-winning historian, philosopher, theologian, teacher, and public communicator. Dr. Stackhouse specializes in explaining clearly what is happening at the intersection of contemporary religion and society. He also vividly presents the wisdom of ancient traditions plus the perspective of contemporary scholarship to equip audiences to face today's challenges at work, in the public square, and in private life. |
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