Come and hear how God is at work in global missions among different spheres and departments at Samford University! This will also be the newly renovated Global Center's Open House day for discovering and exploring the new space.
In the summer of 2023, Beeson Divinity students Fallon Farley and Josiah Trombley, as well as Josiah's wife and Beeson staff member, Callie Trombley, took a trip to the Middle East as part of a cross-cultural ministry practicum trip. They worked alongside a Beeson Divinity alumna who is serving there long term and experienced what it is like to live and work in the Middle East as both the religious and cultural minority. They will share about those experiences and what they learned in this Global Voices lunch!
Go Global is Samford's annual Missions Emphasis Week co-sponsored by the Global Center and the Office of Spiritual Life. As part of this year's Go Global week, our keynote speaker, Jolene Erlacher, will share about her work on mobilizing the next generation for global missions, what that looks like and what some of the challenges and opportunities are in the field of Global Missions for the upcoming generation.
Last year, Dr. Julia Higgins took a trip to Lome, Togo in West Africa and partnered with the International Missions Board to put on a women's conference for female Baptist leaders from across West Africa. About 75 women attended from Togo, Cameroon, and Ghana. She will share about her experience leading that conference and what it looks like to contextualize learning atctivities for ministry in different contexts in a talk entitled "Empowered and Equipped: Strengthening West African Women in Biblical Interpretation for the Ministry of Teaching."
Does a reckoning with the colonial era mean that western Christians should avoid cross-cultural missions? Hear a conversation between a professor in Samford’s history department and a Liberian Christian leader.
Join us to learn about current issues in missions, global needs and the work of the church throughout the world.
