What challenges accompany the new opportunities women leaders have while they serve as professors, deans and administrators? Working alongside men tops the list and this provocative workshop will offer insight as we seek wise attitudes and actions that lead to healthy mixed-gender partnerships in higher education.

Want to expand your ministry via writing? Learn how, and leave with three tips that, if applied to your prose, will immediately set your writing apart.

As a leader, it’s easy to understand and embrace your responsibility for those entrusted to your leadership. But how often do you think about your responsibility to lead your leaders? Learn strategies for exercising your leadership skills in relationship to those who lead you.

OPEN FORUM

What is on the horizon for women’s ministry? Where are our blind spots? Why are certain women missing when we gather? These questions along with others are just the beginning of the dialogue you can join as we seek to anticipate the future landscapes of ministry to women and the innovation needed.

Men and women working effectively together in ministry is one of the most significant issues facing Christian leaders. Discover insights to help build stronger ministry relationships based on grace, truth, understanding and respect for each other.

OPEN FORUM

The opportunity for women to work alongside men in academic settings brings both joy and challenge. What is your greatest challenge? Fear? Personal success? This peer forum provides an opportunity to dialog with other women who grapple with issues unique to the academic setting. Participants determine the topics for discussion via questions. Join the discussion for real time insight and connections.

PANEL

Everything you ever wanted to ask the pros about writing but were embarrassed to email.

Leanne is the founder of Street’s Hope, a Denver-based organization helping women in prostitution escape that lifestyle. Join Leanne as she tells the story of realizing her call to these women and how she set up a non-profit for a marginalized population. In this seminar, you will also think through discerning “a call” for your life and look at the nuts and bolts of setting up a non-profit organization.

If we worship the same Lord and read the same Bible, how can our generational values be so different?

This session will provide information on each generation’s perspective as leaders, followers and members. The purpose is to improve our intergenerational communication, work/ministry and personal relationships. Embracing our generational differences and minimizing our clashes involve trust and some risk. Learning to understand, accept and value what each generation has to offer is the first step.

Who hasn’t tasted the pain we find in the “gaps” between desire and reality? Though there is small pain in small gaps and large pain in large ones, life in the gap is the story line of a woman and a leader. In both personal and professional scenarios, we are challenged to live and lead in ways that either drive us toward an encounter with God or toward a life of self-effort and control. This interactive workshop will explore the amazing offer in the Gospel and discuss its far reaching implications for our lives.

PEER PANEL

As women assume faculty and administrative positions in Christian higher education, they become change agents by their very presence. Women often bring a different perspective than their male colleagues and introduce new ideas which can strengthen and enhance their academic setting. What are the most effective ways to influence positive change? This workshop will explore the difficulties and challenges of implementing change and help discover the means by which women best facilitate change in their academic institutions.

SANDRA GLAHN, Facilitator

LESA ENGELTHALER, Facilitator

Attendees should bring a prepared homework assignment. As a class, we will look at and graciously edit a few of the assignments (with individual’s approval) and then provide personalized, one-on-one speed editing time with an editor or writer.

Ray discusses her God-crafted journey from the corporate suite to the mountainous regions of Gondar, Ethiopia, as she offers insight for seasoned leaders who are discerning God’s call from their present post in the Kingdom to “Act II.”

This session will explore the critical gift of godly feminine wisdom in the church and the qualities that set apart such wisdom from its counterfeits. Attention will be given to practical ways in which feminine wisdom grounds and enriches our lives as men and women together in the Body of Christ.

A post-modern American culture, in which 50% of post-graduates never read another book, challenges traditional literate methods of ministry. Come explore orality—the approach Jesus employed—to develop a lifelong tool for mentoring women.