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Career Calling This presentation reports the findings of a qualitative study examining the
perceptions of career agency, career calling, and divine calling among a group of Dale L. Lemke
in Mid-career:
thirty-five U.S. mid-career missionaries who reported a sense of living out a
Theoretical calling. Data analysis revealed two main themes: calling as a dynamic lived
and Practical experience and socio-contextual factors perceived as influencing lived callings. University of Join Here
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Ministry These themes will be related to current research on work-as-calling theory to
examine potential contributions of a distinctly Christian integrative perspective on St. Paul,
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this theory. Practical ministry considerations related to cultivating a sense of lived
callings will also be considered.

Jane Carr
Navigating the
and Kevin E.
Opportunities, What are the opportunities and joys of church ministry for those who are single?
Joys, and What distinctive challenges do they face, and how can these be managed to help Lawson-
Challenges of singles in ministry thrive? This session shares the results of focus group and
interview research with 45 single church-staff members (20 men, 25 women) who Talbot
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serve in a wide range of ministry roles, denominations, and community contexts. School of
Single: With more young adults delaying marriage until their late 20s and the growth in Theology,
Findings from the number of singles in ministry, we need to help our graduates thrive in ministry Biola
Recent while they are single.
University,
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Faculty

Scott D.
Toward an Edgar
Online learning is here to stay. Indeed, it appears that every Christian university
Ecosystem of and seminary is launching online courses and programs. A distinctive of Christian
Spiritual Higher Education is the desire to create online programs that not only reflect a Los Angeles
Formation: Christian worldview, but also intentionally infuse spiritual formation in their Pacific Join Here
Elements for curricula. Expanding on concepts presented in Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age University,
Growth in (Lowe & Lowe), this paper will propose a conceptual framework that can assist in Faculty
the development of an ecosystem for spiritual growth. Various learning theories
Online
will be examined which may prove valuable in developing this ecosystem.
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Kolb and This presentation will revisit David Kolb's experiential learning theory in light of Michael
Calvary: A more recent emphasis upon the affective domain as primary mechanism for Wilder
Revised altering the learner’s cognitive frame, along with the consideration of the
Application of learner’s experience of cognitive dissonance in the learning process: resulting in a Southwester
Experiential change of thinking, valuing, and acting both as an individual and as a part of the n Baptist Join Here
collective learning community. This exploration will result in a proposed Theological
Learning refinement of the experiential learning cycle applied to evangelical Bible teaching
Theory to with four stages: (1) Connecting Truth; (2) Declaring Truth; (3) Convicting Truth; Seminary,
Bible Teaching and (4) Living Truth. Faculty

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