Recognizing that we are on the threshold of moving into the next wave of cultural transition, Chris Hammon and Vicki Hollon of the Wayne E. Oates Institute will present a workshop on Minsitry in the New World Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for Lifelong Learning Providers during the 2008 SACEM Annual Conference. This workshop not only talks about what is happening in today’s congregations, but why it is happening. More significantly, the workshop seeks to address the challenges and the opportunities that that this latest wave of cultural transitions presents for providers of lifelong learning for ministry programs.

As the first generation to grown up with personal computers and digital communications begins to move into congregational leadership positions, the influences of Wikinomics and the digital age will begin to compete with the preferences of the print and broadcast eras.  Many congregations today consist of five generations reflecting the influence of these three major communication eras.  The members reflect three ways of knowing, viewing reality, ascribing value and meaning, and forming community. They also have three competing sets of expectations and perspectives on what it means to belong and to participate. What does this mean for pastoral leadership? What does it mean for those providing continuing education programs for those pastoral leaders?

Dr. Vicki Hollon is the Executive Director for the Wayne Oates Institute.  Dr. Chris Hammon is the Administrator of their Online Learnign Center. Together they have been leading online conferences and seminars for the past ten years. They also co-teach in the 21st Century Leadership track of Drew University Theological School's Doctor of Ministry Program; where they previously had collaborated on research in Connected Learning and co-authored their doctoral dissertation on Connected Learning as an Approach for Lifelong Learning for Ministry.

This workshop will be offered twice; once on Friday afternoon and again on Saturday morning.

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