Check out our facebook group to join others who are attending and check out some fun videos.
Check out our facebook group to join others who are attending and check out some fun videos.
August 14-17, 2008, we are hosting a national gathering - “Get Swept Up In The Current.” You’ll connect with young people from all over the country at various stages of missional living among their friends. Learn from fellow practitioners and guest Michael Frost, author of Exiles. For more info, check the gathering page.
August 14-17, 2008
“Get Swept Up In The Current” - a gathering of like-minded friends seeking to understand how God is moving right where they are. Help write the next chapters in the story. Connect […]
Workshops
Shame is like acid that strips us of our dignity and dissolves hope. No other emotion better portrays hell – the utter loss of intimacy, wonder, and joy. Shame creates an absorption with self that can make us feel as if we’re drowning. In Shame, the issue is not that you did a bad thing. The issue is that you are bad. You are fundamentally flawed, less than others. Trust in an Advocate shatters shame because it draws us to look beyond hopelessness of the moment and gaze on the One whose strength and love is capable of pulling us out of the mire.
Vic and his wife, Lindy, live in Colorado Springs. Vic is the national prayer director for the US Navigators. Lindy is part of the Collegiate executive leadership team. For fun, they enjoy hiking the mountains of Colorado. They both love sharing their lives and experiences with 20 and 30 somethings.
The creative language that brings beauty to life
We will talk about the sacredness of language, the revelatory and creative aspects of it. It will include conversational instruction, and looking at affirming language. Language sometimes is functional, but when it is reduced to simply utilitarian purposes, it is stark and dreary rather than beautiful like God intended it to be.
Skip lives in Des Moines where he and his wife enjoy life with their family and friends and serve on Navstaff. They love to hang with believer friends and friends yet to know Christ. Skip enjoys building friendships over long conversations while smoking a cigar!
Jesus was a master at stepping across these barriers and lovingly moved into the lives of people. Join us for a conversation about how followers of Jesus can live incarnationally with among the diverse people of our world.
Sara Wevodau and Nate VanNoord are leading. Nate is 29 and lives in an intentional community in inner-city Detroit with four others, including a one year old. He works full time for the Navigators with people in their 20s and 30s. He is training for his first Ironman triathlon, enjoys watching documentaries, and loves fresh, in season fruit.
Perhaps I am just romanticizing, but it seems like I had a lot more time in college than I’ve had ever since! To live life well after graduation, I have had to learn how to shift from having a nice “walk” with God to staying intimate and close with Him even when I am on the run. We’ll share our experiences with each other and look at some practical helps, everything from “seven seconds with God” to finding God on TV to the role of community in “personal” devotions.
Dean lives in Durham, NC, cheers for the Blue Devils, teaches English as a Second language, has a beautiful wife and energetic kids and has worked with The Navigators overseas and in the US. He likes his coffee straightforward and has smoked a cigar with Skip Asjes.
How listening with intent and asking questions with skill will bring out the best in your relationships & Influence
Few people in our culture today want to be told what to do. Learning about anything is a participatory, relational process. Those who are fortunate enough to have supportive and insightful friends learn well – and learn fast. The goal of our time together will be to experience and gain a listening mindset, relational insights and some new skills to lead to great conversations about life. Caution: immediately applicable in all aspects of human existence – home, work, friends, sharing faith, growing leaders.
John Robinson is a member of b2g’s Coaching Team. He is a certified Christian Leadership Coach and teaches coaching to leaders and influencers throughout the Navigator mission. Several business clients (including a Bishop) rave about his coaching. He feels most alive when he is engaged in life changing conversations.
As I talked with Jim a movie clip came to mind. The clip fit the struggle he was having with finding purpose in life. Our conversation continued for seven weeks around coffee at a local coffee shop. Missional engagement with our culture can begin with the current buzz about a movie, a song or a clip from YouTube. Join the conversation as we unpack how to connect current buzz with gospel realities.
Jon is married 32 years to his beautiful wife, has 3 children, 5 grand-children and during his spare time loves to this think, read, drink coffee and talk about the latest movie he watched.
Stew is an introverted person who loves to hang out with people. 35 years old married father of 2. Bigger than the side of a barn and loves to watch Kentucky basketball. He’s a minister by trade, teaching by calling, philosopher by default, and sojourner by association.
Networks
These are new and existing networks of people around the country who have formed around a common passion. Please choose one. You don’t have to already be a member of a network to attend one.
A network of like-hearted friends who are together learning about living missionally in community. We will share experiences, lessons learned, risks taken, challenges overcome, and God’s blessings.
Mark Johnson leads the b2g mission in Denver, and has helped pioneer the KLC experiment in Denver and other cities. This workshop will be led by fellow pioneers in their 20’s.
Jon leads the b2g mission in Seattle and has helped craft the KLC material for creating Missional Communities. Jon loves to connect the gospel to pop culture.
Do you find yourself constantly questioning the way things are done? Do you care about people or places that few others seem to care about? Maybe you have the heart of an “apostle” one of God’s sent ones. We will network, share stories and figure out how to move forward in new places.
Dean grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. After surviving 17 straight spring break experiences, he started getting serious about God, or maybe it’s that God showed him just how serious he was about him. Today, Dean teaches English as a second language, works for the Navigators, does karate with his kids, he loves my wife (Anne) and thinks, studies and writes about the connection between the kingdom of God and everyday life.
Beauty, truth and goodness. All created by God for our enjoyment. Join us for a conversation about how God manifests himself through diverse expressions of the creative arts. Bring your ideas on how we can help each other live out of our creativity for the advancement of the gospel of the kingdom.
Pat comes alive when she expresses herself in art. She has a passion to come alongside people who find themselves longing to express God’s beauty in diverse ways. Pat also likes to help people get in touch with the internal beauty that can lie dormant in their heart.
Cris Ramsdale is a transplanted Southerner very at home in the culture of Seattle and the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. She enjoys her day-to-day life with her husband and two toddlers while she pursues becoming a licensed therapist and her work as a visual artist.
Join us as we take a walking tour through Seattle’s Central District and meet some of the people who live, work and serve there. You will meet the helpers, the homeless, and some people who are working to advance the good news of the kingdom in this environment. We will be leaving early from breakfast at 8:30 to give us more time.
Rick works for an inner-city Boys & Girls Club in the Seattle Central District. He loves Jesus, peaches, penguins and marbles.
Al Engler is the Seattle Metro leader. Al works with Rick in an Urban House Church to plant the Gospel in the inner city. Al loves the Eagles, Bob Dylan and other groups that have captured truth about life.
City Life is a one year adventure with God and friends along the path of trust. You will join others in their twenties knowing and being known, living and discipling with spiritual friends and among those yet to experience Jesus. You commit time and heart. We commit to helping you in three key areas: Christ, community and your career. The cost is great, but the gain can be immeasurable!
Andy Farina is the beloved of God. Pioneer and servant leader of b2g in Florida. Husband. Veteran collegiate staff. Father of 5 children. Electrical Engineer. Warrior-Poet. Friend. Group fitness instructor and trainer. Eccentric. Coffee shop philosopher. Learner. Adventurer. In need of others. Aspiring comic.
So you’ve come to this b2g party and you don’t know anyone, are wondering what this is all about and just want to get to know some people who share your passion. Join us for a conversation of what it means to hang with your friends around coffee as you naturally connect spiritual things to every day life. So let’s talk about what this b2g thing is.
Seth and Christine live in Nashville, Tennessee - the country music capital of the world. They run a coffee shop and love to have great conversations with people along with good coffee. Relationships define who they are.
b2g is about connection and community. It’s about building relationship with people nearby. If you can’t find your city in the list below, try looking somewhere else.
