We have an amazing line-up of elective speakers for Activate 2024 conference! Increase your knowledge of what God is doing around the world and be challenged by how you and your church can further God’s mission in the world He created.

Elective 1: Business as Mission: Why, What, How?

This panel of thinkers and practitioners explore what Business as Mission* can look like in a range of contexts. We will also consider the complexities of this missional framework, and how grappling with them can inform our broader missional thinking. Mission is complex, but God has both equipped us and called us with the Great Commission, and BAM is one way to answer that call!

* Using the definition provided by The Lausanne Movement.

Elective 2: Bible Translation: Then and Now

Come and hear from Graham Scott, lecturer at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, on what Bible translation is and why it is important today. This workshop will explore how Bible translation has contributed to growth in faith, as well as culture and language preservation. The Great Commission still matters, and every tribe and nation need the Bible in their own language!

Elective 3: Is Mission Still Relevant – to my church and to me?

Why should my church or I care about mission? Join Cathy, cross-cultural worker and member of many agency leadership teams, to explore why mission is still relevant to our churches and our individual lives. Cathy will share her own stories from the field as well as examining some of the logistical and cultural reasons why mission still matters. She will explore the impacts of mission on those who ‘receive’ cross-cultural workers, those who ‘send’ cross-cultural workers, and those who ARE cross-cultural workers!

Elective 4: Next Steps: Discernment, Preparation, and more

So, you’re wondering about mission, and whether God is calling you. What happens now? In this interactive session, join other wonderers in learning how and why we discern, pray, or prepare. The room will be divided into helpful stations, and a host at each station will share their own process of discerning, praying and preparing for mission. In small groups we will pray for each other on the journey. The Great Commission still matters, and there are many ways to obey it!