Os Hillman Hosts Kingdom Vue Online Event
Transformation 2012 Virtual Conference & Expo will be held February 18, 2012 in an online-only, virtual expo platform containing both live and on-demand keynote speakers, video interviews, downloadable articles, video chat rooms, and interactive exhibitor displays highlighting ministries that are making a cultural impact around the world.
Why a Virtual Conference? With skyrocketing gas prices and a fragile economy, a virtual conference just makes sense. It allows believers and organizations from around the world to participate in a high-quality conference at a fraction of the price you might pay for travel, meals, and lodging. Plus the content will be available on-demand for 3 months after the event so you can return again and again to watch the parts you missed."
For More Information Visit: www.KingdomVue.com
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Hope International Looking for 21 Summer Interns and Fellows
HOPE International is seeking candidates for internships & fellowships! For available positions, click here.
HOPE International is a global nonprofit working to empower men, women, and families to break the cycles of physical and spiritual poverty through the provision of loans, savings services, basic business training, mentoring, and discipleship. HOPE serves nearly 300,000 clients worldwide through microenterprise development. For more information, see http://www.hopeinternational.
HOPE International’s GROW Internship Program
- Emphasizes spiritual formation, professional enrichment and significant involvement. To see available positions, click here.
- Offers positions in countries such as Rwanda, Haiti, Dominican Republic, China, India, USA, Moldova, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, etc.
Eligibility
- Students who have completed at least their junior year by the start of the internship, graduate students and recently graduated students are eligible to apply.
- Submit all materials to Rachel Weaver at intern@hopeinternational.org. All materials should be submitted at once, although if necessary, letters of recommendation can be emailed separately.
Internship Application (see link above to download application)
- Resume
- Cover letter
- One-page essay (please, no longer than one page): As a follower of Christ, how do you believe you are called to respond to the crisis of global poverty?
- Letter of recommendation (preferably from a professor, pastor, or supervisor)
Application deadline: Application deadline is 5 pm EST on February 15, 2012. Interviews are currently being conducted, so the earlier you can submit your materials, the better!
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RightNow looking to add 8 Sales, Design and Programming Staff in early 2012
For those of you guys new to the blog, RightNow is a Christian Media organization in Richardson, TX with
95 creative and energetic people on our team. We love hard work but we also have
a very family friendly environment.
We love serving churches. To accomplish our mission, RightNow is involved in several initiatives to equip the church. We have served over 110,000 churches through our video Bible study resources (BluefishTV.com), leadership conferences (RightNowConferences.org) and online training tools (RightNowTraining.org). The RightNow team has worked with great teachers and communicators including Max Lucado, Francis Chan, Third Day, Dave Ramsey, Chris Tomlin, Matt Chandler, Gary Thomas, Chip Ingram and many more. We are on a mission to help people trade in the pursuit of the American Dream for a world that desperately needs Christ.
We are expanding into some new opportunities which require people with a variety of skills and passions. You can learn more about our mission and our projects at these websites listed above and at RightNow.org
JOB OPENINGS:
We love serving churches. To accomplish our mission, RightNow is involved in several initiatives to equip the church. We have served over 110,000 churches through our video Bible study resources (BluefishTV.com), leadership conferences (RightNowConferences.org) and online training tools (RightNowTraining.org). The RightNow team has worked with great teachers and communicators including Max Lucado, Francis Chan, Third Day, Dave Ramsey, Chris Tomlin, Matt Chandler, Gary Thomas, Chip Ingram and many more. We are on a mission to help people trade in the pursuit of the American Dream for a world that desperately needs Christ.
We are expanding into some new opportunities which require people with a variety of skills and passions. You can learn more about our mission and our projects at these websites listed above and at RightNow.org
JOB OPENINGS:
- 3 Sales Directors
- 3 Sales Coordinators
- Graphic Designer & Marketing Coordinator
- .NET Programmer/Developer
Find out more about these jobs by going to www.rightnow.org/careers
Print a flyer to post on your job board here -http://collateral.rightnow.org/jobs/RightNow_JobFlyer.pdf
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Wasted Charity: Why the 'compassion industry' is not helping the poor. A review of 'Toxic Charity' by Christianity Today
An encouraging conversation that continues to emerge is "How do we make the maximum impact with our charity?"Its interesting to see more groups point to how prolonged (or poorly planned) relief efforts can drag on and eventually create crippling dependency. There's obvious times Charity is desperately needed. But charity can do more harm than good if not part of a comprehensive plan.
I'm incredibly encouraged to see things like Acton's "PovertyCure" initiative talk about taking people "from aid to enterprise". Their passion to inspire economic development as a tool for sustainable transformation is incredibly encouraging.
Another eye opening book on this issue recently was release by Robert Lupton. As a 40 year veteran he speaks to the dangers, the risks and opportunities to change how we perceive transformation in Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It). Click on the links to read Christianity Today's recent review.
"Robert Lupton's new book is going to ruffle some feathers.
In Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) (HarperOne), the 40-year veteran urban minister "takes the gloves off" and argues that much of Americans' charitable giving "is either wasted or actually harms the people it is targeted to help."
The reason is that the "compassion industry" is "almost universally accepted as a virtuous and constructive enterprise," but its "outcomes are almost entirely unexamined." Years of charitable giving at home and abroad, Lupton contends, have made barely a dent in reducing poverty and often encourage dependency. Toxic Charity offers some statistics, but more stories, as evidence that both our philosophy and practice of charity are frequently misguided.
In Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) (HarperOne), the 40-year veteran urban minister "takes the gloves off" and argues that much of Americans' charitable giving "is either wasted or actually harms the people it is targeted to help."
The reason is that the "compassion industry" is "almost universally accepted as a virtuous and constructive enterprise," but its "outcomes are almost entirely unexamined." Years of charitable giving at home and abroad, Lupton contends, have made barely a dent in reducing poverty and often encourage dependency. Toxic Charity offers some statistics, but more stories, as evidence that both our philosophy and practice of charity are frequently misguided.
The news here is painful. Our self-centeredness contributes to the problem. We evaluate our giving, Lupton argues, "by the rewards we receive through service, rather than the benefits received by the served." ... Read the full review.
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Marketplace Chaplains Featured on NBC Evening News
Marketplace Chaplaincy is quickly becoming one of the best ways to improve your emotional, spiritual and financial bottom lines.
You may have missed this last year, but there was a story featured on NBC's evening news. You can also click on this link to view it straight from the Marketplace Chaplains website.
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Retired CEO of Lenscrafters David Browne on Faith and Work
Article written by Kevin Miller (Watch the Video Interview Here) - At the tender age of 29, David Browne was living every entrepreneur’s dream. As CEO and President of LensCrafters, the multi-million dollar eyewear company he co-founded, every sign indicated that his star would continue to rise. However, even though David admits he thought of himself as “hot stuff” at the time, he couldn’t have been more miserable.So what was the problem?
David was having an increasingly difficult time reconciling his Christian faith with his business success. While the former told him to put God and people first, the latter made the bottom line king. If people or ethics had to be swept aside in order to achieve a profit, so be it. So even while David had achieved success according to the world’s terms, he sensed he was nowhere near as successful as he could be were he able to reconcile these two facets of his life.
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C12 Group Celebrates 20 Years of Business Impact and Influence
In 1992, Buck developed the C12 Group’s proprietary process, various tailored product offerings, and a body of targeted leadership, general management, and marketplace ministry materials aimed at increasing the fruitfulness of executives. By integrating ‘best-in-class’ business practices with timeless Biblical application, C12 became known as a practical, targeted, and highly effective resource to address a Christian leader’s real-life concerns and opportunities. This proven impact was underscored in a 2006 C12 study that compared the performance of long-term C12 members against a cross-section of U.S. small-to-midsized leadership companies captured in a study sponsored by The Business Roundtable. Looking at the decade spanning 1995-2005, C12’s member companies outperformed their marketplace counterparts in compound annual sales and profit growth by more than three-to-one. More importantly, says Jacobs, the number of adults coming to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ in these long-time C12 companies far exceeded the typical number of annual salvations enjoyed by the average American church.
What began as a solitary Christian CEO roundtable practice with three groups in the Tampa Bay area has now grown to more than 1000 members in more than 100 groups and 65 metro areas across America.C12 members span all industries and range in size from $1 million to more than $1 billion in annual sales. According to Don Barefoot, C12’s President and CEO, “C12 has been a source of blessing to more than 3000 Christian CEOs, Presidents and Owners, as well as an estimated 12 to 15 million stakeholders in these companies – employees, customers, suppliers, and shareholders – many of whom have either come to the Lord, been encouraged in their Christian faith, or been served in the love of Christ through their everyday interactions with C12 member companies that share a bit of God’s provision and purpose.”
C12 recently launched its 20th year by hosting a successful Leaders Conference in Orlando, FL with record attendance in excess of 400 Christian CEOs and spouses, despite the weak economy. The conference theme, Standing in the Gap, was devoted to providing inspiration and practical help through a variety of business and ministry topics to Christian CEOs dedicated to Building GREAT Businesses for a GREATER Purpose. With such continued growth and interest, Buck says, ”An idea that many said couldn’t work has flourished into the growing C12 organization we see today, 20 years later, growing at double digits by doing things God’s way and still working to provide our members with real value and a safe community of like-minded peers.” Barefoot chimed in, “The combination of servant leadership, continual peer sharpening, and the well-informed application of timeless truths is an unbeatable combination for Christian CEOs looking to develop their businesses to the next level while leading and living in a way that makes an eternal difference.”
If you would like more information on The C12 Group, please go to www.C12Group.com or contact C12 Home Office (336-841-7100 or info@C12Group.com).
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