Workshops

While always learning and never arriving, GUM has been given opportunities to share from its experiences in church-centered ministry development through workshops in a variety of conference settings. Mutually beneficial, such venues always bless GUM with the opportunity to meet, and build relationship with, other practitioners in urban ministry and community development. Such relationships, at least potentially, bring blessing to GUM’s network of churches at home.

Christian Community Development Association (CCDA)

GUM has coordinated and conducted several workshops at CCDA’s annual conference, including “Connecting Congregation & Community Development,” “Why Ecclesiology Matters,” “Redistribution,” and “War, Racism, Poverty & the Church.” See the Photos

Claremont School of Theology & World Vision

As part of a workshop series led by the Urban Leadership Institute of the Claremont School of Theology in partnership with World Vision Los Angeles, GUM’s Craig Wong partnered with Mark Lau-Branson of Fuller Theological Seminary to introduce church leaders to congregation-based ministry discernment and strategy.

National Outreach Convention (NOC)

The work of GUM was presented as part of a panel on “Models of Faith in Action” among the urban poor, a workshop hosted by World Vision at the annual NOC in San Diego, a gathering for pastors and congregational leaders that focuses on evangelism and outreach strategies for local churches.