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Top Futurist To Help Euro Church Leaders
17 March 2008
Europe's leading futurist will be among the featured speakers at Strategic Leadership Consultation, SLC08:MAINSTREAM event, in Malaga, Spain, May 8-10.
Dr. Patrick Dixon travels the world speaking to Forbes 500 companies such as Microsoft and IBM, helping them to deal with future change. The Wall Street Journal describes him as a 'global change guru'. He is the head of Global Change and the author of many books including FutureWise.
A medical doctor by training, and a committed Christian, he is also the founder of ACET, which is setting up AIDS hospices in needy parts of the world.
Patrick will address the SLC08 consultation, which brings together invited church and church network leaders from across Europe, on the changing face of the church's mission today.
'The Church wasn't designed to exist at the edges of society, irrelevent and unnoticed!' says Mal Fletcher, founder and host of the summit and director of Next Wave International.
'Some say that Europe is "post-Christian" - actually in many ways it's pre-Christian again, and ready for an Acts 2 kind of church.'
'The head of the British Army recently reminded us that wherever a spiritual vacuum exists in a nation, something will invariably move in to fill that space.'
'In some parts of Europe today that something is radical Islamist fundamentalism, in others it is atheism and secularism; in others, rampant consumerism. More than ever, the church needs a vibrant voice that creatively engages the culture and reshapes it in a positive, godly direction. The SLC08:MAINSTREAM event is all about addressing that challenge - with creativity, compassion and courage.'
Dr. Dixon adds: 'If we don't shape the future, the future will shape us.' For more on the SLC08:MAINSTREAM event, click here.
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