UA Christian Staff and Faculty Fellowship - Worldview app, 10/14

Join us on 10/14 on Zoom at 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM for a UA Christian Staff and Faculty Fellowship gathering. 

You're welcome to keep eating your lunch during the gathering. 

We're delighted to have a special guest: Ric Routh, b4worldview. Ric will join us on Zoom to tell us about the worldview app his team developed. Here is some information he provided.

  • The study of Christian apologetics.
    • Why? Ultimately, its objective is to give to the Christian, in this life, the life-giving benefits of a Christian worldview.
    • What benefits?  There are many, but here are some of them:  a clearer sense of hope and significance, a deeper sense of freedom, a clearer and more healthy sense of identity, more peace in your soul, and perhaps most importantly: a clearer view of who God really is.
  • But how do we effectively engage young people (college students) in this study of Christian apologetics, especially the current 20-somethings generation which seems to be driven more by emotional experience than by the cognitive pursuits of reason?
  • We at b4worldview have been working on this challenge for seven years.  We’ve learned lots of lessons about what works and what doesn’t.
    • Our latest ministry tool (available for free online at www.b4worldview.com/Traction/ ) demonstrates how to effectively engage the Christian college-age audience in a way that is interesting (even captivating), meaningful (transformative), and memorable (lasting).
    •  If you would like, you're invited to go through the Traction adventure yourself before Oct 14 (It takes about 40 minutes to go through the entire adventure). 
    • The presentation will make more sense to you if you experience the app before the presentation—but not a requirement to join us for the lunch meeting. 

The Zoom link is:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85653320749?pwd=eEVlVzN0dXNsSU43ellHeHo2UUVPdz09 

These happened on 10/14

  • 1066. William the Conqueror's forces defeated the English Saxons at the Battle of Hastings. He will be instrumental in bringing English Christianity into closer conformity with the Catholic church.
  • 1735. John and Charles Wesley, cofounders of Methodism, set sail for America.
  • 1957. Edward Thomas Demby, second African-American bishop of the Episcopal Church, died.

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