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Leading & Emerging Culture
Accepting Registration NOW for Fall 2004
Register with Fuller Seminary or Biblical Seminary
Send ETREK Collaborative Learning Journeys the following informatoin after you register with Fuller: please include your name, phone #, address, church / organization, short description of your church / organization's community and why you are interested in this program. Send to Todd@ETREK.com or call (405)392-4753 for more information.
How are you being supported, cared for, and continuing your learning? ETREK Learning Groups are peer-to-peer groups that connect 15 to 25 individuals with a natural affinity, such as lead pastors.
I wish I had something like this when I was in seminary and in my church ministry experience. After a staff meeting is over and people move on to their work and home, no one else carries the weight of the church like a lead pastor. You will be the one always second-guessing the direction of your church, and staying awake at night holding the awesome responsibility of leading the community. As many teams as you create, and partnerships you design, no one truly understands the responsibilities and rewards of being a lead pastor apart from other lead pastors.
A group of lead pastors committed to an ETREK learning group and sharing from their own experience, will be able to create the safe, interactive and accessible community you might be looking for.
5-7 private conference calls with Facilitator and Guest Faculty. Interact with thinkers on the front lines. They will help you grapple with today's challenges facing the church and her leadership. Guest Faculty will include those like - Frederica Matthews-Green, Dan Kimball, Andrew Jones, Sally Morgenthaler, Leonard Sweet, Brian McLaren and Karen Ward.
Meet face to face during our first two-day gathering. If you registered with Fuller Seminary, we will meet on the Fuller Seminary Campus in Pasadena, CA. The Fall initial two-day gathering will be on September 29-30, 2004. The culminating Fall two-day gathering will be on December 1-2, 2004. You will be notifited of the exact details once the course is filled and confirmed.
Your fellow traveler will be Spencer Burke, (member of ETREK Facilitator Faculty) creator of TheOoze, host of Soularize, Founder of ETREK and IndieAllies.net, Author of "Making Sense of Church" (released Sept. 2003) and currently working on a new short film festival, "Cavepaint."
The Basics of the Course
* Learning groups have 15 - 25 learners and a facilitator and convene for 10-12 weeks. Summer courses 5-6 weeks.
* Groups meet face-to-face twice: for the first session to meet each other and develop the topics to be explored, and for the final session to celebrate and compile learnings.
* Twice a month, group members participate in facilitated group phone conferences with experts (Guest Faculty) or authors in the agreed upon subjects (5-7 calls).
* Twice a month, peer-to-peer phone conferences are used to further explore the topics being discussed (ten calls).
* Once a month, one-on-one personalized learning with facilitator. Phone conversations focused on how the topic uniquely plays out in your real-life situation (three calls).
* For each subject there is a reading list developed by the group with feedback from our academic advisors.
* Learners capture and share their learnings and ideas via ETREK?s online web tools.
* Optional Credit, Graduate credit may be obtained through Fuller Seminary or Biblical Seminary.
* Experts (Guest Faculty) will include those like; Leonard Sweet, Brian McLaren, Sally Morgenthaler, Fredericka Matthewes-Green, Andrew Jones, Dan Kimball and Karen Ward.
Requirements
1. You are a leader of a congregation or organization.
2. Your congregation / organization wants to address the needs of the emerging culture.
3. You are open minded and willing to explore emerging culture trends and issues that affect your church / organization.
Cost
In addition to Continuing Education Units through Fuller Theologcial Seminary for your completed course you receive; (materials, travel, food and lodging not included)
5-7 - 90 minute conference calls with ?experts?
3 - 30 minute private calls with facilitator
2 - 2 day onsite learning gatherings
1 - 6 month subscription to ETREK.com
Schedule
@ Fuller Seminary - Fall '04 - September 27-December 2,2004
The initial two-day gathering will be on September 28-29 and the culminating two-day gathering will be on December 1-2, 2004.
@ Biblical Seminary - Fall '04 - September 14 - December 15, 2004
The initial two-day gathering will be on September 14-15 and the culminating two-day gathering will be onDecember 14-15, 2004.
Each Initial Two-Day Gathering will include:
2 day gathering on the Fuller Seminary Campus in Pasadena, CA or on the Biblical Seminary Campus (determined by registration)
1 conference call with "expert" with group and facilitator. There is always potential for a "bonus" call.
Face to face time developing relationships for the group learning journey.
The Intervening Weeks betwen the first and second two-day gathering will include:
5 conference calls with "expert" with group and facilitator. Schedule for these calls given during two-day event.
1 - 30 minute private call with facilitator each month (for Fall, Winter and Spring) or 1- 1 hour or 2-30 minutes private calls during the Summer Courses
Peer to peer calls
Each Culminating Two-Day Gathering will include:
Potential bonus conference call with "expert" with group and facilitator
Face to Face debrief time with group and facilitator to evaluate the learning journey
2 day gathering with group and facilitator
Facilitator
 Spencer Burke is creator and CEO of TheOoze.com. Spencer spent 20 years in paid ministry including the last 8 of those years at Mariner's church in California and now volunteers at ROCKharbor as an Elder, teacher and counsel to the staff. He's also a founding board member of Damah, an independent short-film festival committed to spiritual experiences in film. Spencer launched a new alternative to schooling called ETREK, an experiential model that integrates real-time, real-life, peer-to-peer curriculum development and lifelong learning. He hosts an annual learning party Soularize for IndieAllies.net a grassroots network of the emerging church. Humorous, inspirational and surprising are words people use to describe his story-telling speaking style. An accomplished photographer, he has exhibited his work in galleries and taught at the university level. Author of two books Stories of Emergence (March 03) and Making Sense of Church (Sept. 03). Spencer lives in a 1909 "beach shack" with his wife, Lisa, and their two children; Alden (6 years old) and Grace (2 year old), in Newport Beach, California.
Guest Faculty
Frederica Matthewes-Green, Dan Kimball, Andrew Jones, Sally Morgenthaler, Karen Ward, Leonard Sweet, Brian McLaren
WebSite Includes
Private and password protect area on ETREK.com (availible soon)
* Archive of recorded conference calls with "experts" (Guest Faculty) from ETREK learning groups.
* Your group topic - Articles, Resources and Message Boards with weekly updates form facilitators.
* Group learnings posted by each participant.
* Access to all areas and other learning groups on ETREK.com.
Email Todd@ETREK.com for more information
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