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Returning from Sabbaticals Strong
August 1, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Over the past few years, a large proportion of American pastors have gone on sabbaticals. For many, it was a much-needed break from a long, polarizing season of ministry. But how do we come back from sabbaticals in a healthy way? How do we apply what God has taught us during our time away? And how do we resist the pressure to “make up” for lost time?
On Tuesday, August 1, 2pm-3:30pm ET, we are hosting a special one-time event titled Returning from Sabbaticals Strong. Curtis Chang, the executive director of Redeeming Babel, and Dave Harvey, the president of the Great Commission Collective, will be serving as online panelists, and we are excited to hear them share their experiences and provide practical takeaways.
Curtis Chang bridges the worlds of secular institutions and theology. In the former world, he is the founder and CEO of Consulting Within Reach (CWR), a firm serving nonprofits and government agencies. His consulting work has won an award in social innovation from the Obama White House, and he teaches strategic planning as a faculty member of American University’s School of International Service.
In the Christian world, he is a consulting professor at Duke Divinity School and a Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary, as well as a former senior pastor of an Evangelical Covenant Church in San Jose, California. He is the author of the book The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self. Curtis lives with his family in San Jose, CA.
Dave Harvey is the president of Great Commission Collective, a church-planting ministry in North America and abroad. Dave was a pastor for 34 years, and he travels widely across networks and denominations as a conference speaker.
Dave is the author of When Sinners Say “I Do”, Am I Called?, and Stronger Together: Seven Partnership Virtues and the Vices that Subvert Them. In a previous role as the Executive Director of Harbor Network (formerly Sojourn Network), Dave also oversaw the publication of the church network’s how-to books, including a book on sabbaticals. Dave and his wife, Kimm, live in southwest Florida, and he writes at RevDaveHarvey.com.
Contact Larry Lin at larry@oneamericamovement.org if you have questions.
