Purpose Driven Journey konferencerne
fortsætter i Danmark ...

Undervisning til Purpose Driven Journey konference 1 i Roskilde Baptistkirke

Den treårige rejse som kirkeledere og præster fra Skandinavien satte i gang i januar 2010 sammen med Saddleback kirken fra Californien, fortsætter i 2012.

Rick Warren sender den 23. - 24. januar 2012 undervisere til Danmark til den femte konference i Purpose Driven Journey. Selvom man ikke har deltaget i de første konferencer, kan man sagtens deltage og få et stort udbytte med en god inspiration til hvordan man kan udvikle tjenester.

Overskriften for denne konference er: Udrustet til tjeneste.

Et af emnerne omhandler hvordan du udvikler din tjeneste og gør andre i stand til det samme. Der vil også være en introduktion til S.H.A.P.E. modellen.

Purpose Driven Journey har på tidligere konferencer haft præster og ledere med fra flere kirkeretninger (Folkekirke og frikirker) fra både Danmark, Sverige, Norge og Island. De treårige træningsforløb fungerer allerede andre stedet i verden, og nu er Skandinavien også godt i gang.

Purpose Driven-konceptet er udviklet af den amerikanske præst Rick Warren, der blandt er kendt som manden, der bad indsættelsesbønnen for præsident Barack Obama. Warren er leder for megakirken Saddleback Church i Californien med flere end 20.000 ugentlige gudstjenestedeltagere, og han har skrevet en række bøger om den måde, Saddleback arbejder på – mest kendt er bøgerne The Purpose Driven Church (Den målrettede Menighed) og The Purpose Driven Life (Det målrettede Liv). Sidstnævnte har været en af de bedst sælgende bøger i verden, med over 30 millioner solgte eksemplarer.

 
Abraham Meulenberg
præst i Saddleback

- Det er vores ønske at demonstrere en let anvendelig step by step-model og en praktisk plan, som præsterne kan bruge i deres arbejde med at skabe formålsstyrede kirker, siger Abraham Meulenberg, præst i Saddleback og leder for Purpose Driven’s initiativer i Europa.

 
Erik Rugholm
landsleder
Purpose Driven Danmark

- Tænk at en kirke på den anden side af jorden vælger at prioritere og investere i Skandinaviens kirker, ikke en enkelt gang, men i en proces over en periode på tre år. Det er ganske enestående, siger Erik Rugholm, leder af Purpose Driven Danmark.

Flere oplysninger på www.purposedriven.dk

Rick Warren is sending some of his best teachers to Denmark

Saddleback Church in California is hosting a "Purpose Driven Journey" - training for pastors and church-leaders - in Copenhagen, Denmark

Kick-Off was in Copenhagen January 25. - 26. 2010.

Kick-Kick-Off i Roskilde - January 2010

"Purpose Driven Journey" is the name of a three-year training for pastors and church-leaders. It is already running on in France, Rwanda and India, but now it is also coming to Scandinavia."Purpose Driven Journey" will last for three years and a total of six conferences. The conferences will each last a couple of days and will be held twice a year. Saddleback Church is sending some of its best teachers to train the participants and be in process with the Scandinavian pastors and church-leaders.

The first conference in Copenhagen was in January 2010. The second conference was in Aalborg in September 2010, and the rest of conferences will all be in Aalborg. The conferences will consist of teaching and inspiring examples of how to be a purpose driven church from Denmark, Norway, Holland and USA. There will also be a lot of practical work and process.

More than just a conference

In between the conferences there will be a lot of dialogue and corporation between participating pastors and the teachers. For this purpose Saddleback Church has build a new web-based forum for pastors and church-leaders. The participants will also be giving practical tools to use between the conferences so the process can continue in their home churches.

"It is our wish to demonstrate an easy useable step-by-step model and a practical plan that the pastors can follow in the work with creating purpose driven churches. "Purpose Driven" is much more than some 40-Days Campaigns.

The idea with "Purpose Driven Journey" is to create vision and process and give some practical tools. If we work on becoming more effective and open our hearts for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, then we can become more effective in reaching our cities with the Gospel and building healthy churches", says Abraham Meulenberg, Pastor in Saddleback Church and Coordinator of "Purpose Driven Initiatives" in Europe.

"Our goal with this three-year journey is to present some biblical principles and ways to work as a church with the purpose of chancing or establishing healthy, growing and reproducing churches. And at the same time live out the purposes God has given us: worship, discipleship, ministry and mission", says Erik Rugholm, Leader of Purpose Driven Denmark.

Speakers will include pastors from various denominations from USA, Denmark, Norway and Holland.