Missions on Your Doorstep -
Reaching the Diasporas in Your City
Description:
Join us as we discover missions on our doorstep. This is one of the most fascinating ways to reach unreached people groups and to enter the world of missions without leaving your own city. We will be hearing from leaders in refugee ministries about how God has been at work in their service. Hear about the strategies that are working. Let's talk about how to get more churches involved. We will explore the obstacles that need to be overcome. Be encouraged as we discuss how reaching the diaspora can be a key to global missions and reaching the unreached.
DATE:
Tues., October 17, 2023
TIME:
12 Noon CT (US), 1 PM ET (US)
7 PM Hamburg, Germany
7 PM Cape Town, South Africa
8 PM Kampala, Uganda
1 AM Tainan, Taiwan
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Registration link is here!
Roundtable Session Leader Participants:
This upcoming roundtable discussion will be led by Dr. Juergen Kramer, founder of the All Nations Hamburg Hub and All Nations International - International Leadership Team Member. Assisting him will be Dr. Dale Berry, Ebenezer Counseling Service Director, Pastor Travis Janousek, New City Church Outreach Pastor, and John Baxter, Next Move Co-Director.
[Pictured L to R: Travis Janousek, John Baxter, Dale Berry, and Juergen Kramer.]
Panelists Background:
Dr. Juergen Kramer is founder of the All Nations Hamburg Hub and he is an International Leadership Team Member with All Nations International. He is a church planter as well as a successful businessman who leads his own consulting practice for senior business leaders. He has supported missions work in many countries around the globe through visits, training and coaching since 2002. Since 2015 the immense influx of Muslim refugees to Germany created the opportunity and need for developing a focused missional team that has planted churches among unreached peoples in the diaspora. His newest missions activities encompass mobilizing the Muslim diasporas to reach their homelands. Juergen holds a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is married to Monika, and they have two daughters and three grandsons.
Dr. Dale Berry is a licensed psychologist and the clinical director of Ebenezer Counseling Services, a multi-service practice with the goal of serving the greater Knoxville, Tennessee, (USA) community. Dale earned his B.S. from the University of the South (Sewanee), his M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Reformed Theological Seminary, his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University, and he completed his doctoral internship at Duke University Student Health Center. He taught for five years at Reformed Theological Seminary before establishing the practice in Knoxville 27 years ago. In 2015, Dale and his wife Mary Beth prayed for direction as they approached a new season of their lives. This was the beginning of an odyssey of meeting leaders ministering to refugees in Europe through the missions ministry for Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church. In the past eight years, Mary Beth and Dale have developed relationships with ministry leaders in Greece, Germany, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands. They have learned much from the work being done to serve refugees in Europe. Their mission has been to support, care for, encourage, and to help ministry leaders connect with one another as they do the business of caring for the physical needs and souls of refugees. They also try to share the work being done with anyone willing to listen.
Missionary John Baxter and his wife, Jan, served as Converge missionaries in the central Philippines helping to train and mobilize the Filipino church for world missions. This included a focus on mobilizing Christian Filipino economic migrants working in the Middle East. In 2011, John became an International Catalyst for the Global Diaspora Network of the Lausanne Movement. He helped North and South American mission training schools include diaspora missiology and practice into their curricula. John is also the co-director of NextMove, a ministry of Frontier Ventures, that helps missions-sending organizations to integrate global migration into their ministry calling and practice.
Pastor Travis Janousek is the Serve/Outreach Pastor at New City Church in Charlotte, North Carolina (USA). Travis and his wife Kate have been married for 13 years and have a four-year-old son, Emmitt. They have been in ministry for 16 years and consider it a joy to help people see how their story is a part of God's story. A majority of his time is spent "outside the walls" of the church, engaging people both locally and globally. In any spare time, he can be found enjoying the outdoors with his family.