Saturday, February 5 - Sunday, February 13, 2022
Work: Local Worship & Global Witness
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. . . . Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (Genesis 2:15 & Colossians 3:23,24)
God’s plan from the start was to populate the earth with people who would reflect his image by working. It is the Bible’s first statement about why we are here. It was given in the workplace. When sin entered, it turned work on its head. In Christ it, too, has been renewed and is listed as a sign of the true believer. Finally, in a world where many lands are closed to evangelists and pastors, work can make witness possible.
But many of us struggle to engage our work (paid or volunteer; student or retiree) as local worship. And few of us have explored the opportunities our work offers for global witness. This winter’s conference helps us connect our work, worship and witness. Join us as we investigate and experience our work as worship and identify opportunities to use our work in global witness.
*An important asterisk: We use the term work throughout this brochure and conference to refer to that which God has called you to do. Homemaking, childrearing, house chores, academic pursuits, paid or volunteer jobs, military or civilian careers, etc. Your interests, experiences and aspirations are part of our scope as well
God’s plan from the start was to populate the earth with people who would reflect his image by working. It is the Bible’s first statement about why we are here. It was given in the workplace. When sin entered, it turned work on its head. In Christ it, too, has been renewed and is listed as a sign of the true believer. Finally, in a world where many lands are closed to evangelists and pastors, work can make witness possible.
But many of us struggle to engage our work (paid or volunteer; student or retiree) as local worship. And few of us have explored the opportunities our work offers for global witness. This winter’s conference helps us connect our work, worship and witness. Join us as we investigate and experience our work as worship and identify opportunities to use our work in global witness.
*An important asterisk: We use the term work throughout this brochure and conference to refer to that which God has called you to do. Homemaking, childrearing, house chores, academic pursuits, paid or volunteer jobs, military or civilian careers, etc. Your interests, experiences and aspirations are part of our scope as well
Conference Schedule of Events
Saturday, February 5
Everyday Disciple: Following Jesus in Everyday Work Life
Pre-Workshop Breakfast: 7:30 – 8:15AM
Workshop on Work: 8:30AM – 12:30PM*
An interactive workshop led by Dale Losch, President of Crossworld and two of his team. Come ready to think through your work from a biblical perspective and process your findings at table groups. Register for the workshop (and breakfast) here. *Children's programming will be offered for children 9 months to 5th grade from 8:30AM to 12:30PM with pre-registration.
Breakfast provided by the Men’s Ministry. For men and women attending the workshop. Please indicate “Breakfast” when you sign up for the workshop. If you’ve never had one of the MM breakfasts, you’re in for a treat. Table conversations will include your work experiences and Reflections on Work Survey tool.
Sunday, February 6
Special Discipleship Class
My Work As Global Witness? How?
9AM, Room 202/203
Crossworld’s Bill Fuller draws on stories from over 35 countries where they have disciple-makers doing just that. Come with questions about how your past or present work has equipped you already.
Sunday Highlights
Home Groups During the Week
We start with a Bible study looking at work through the lens of creation, fall, redemption and consummation. We share how our view of work has been shaped by the world and reshaped by the gospel.
Thursday, February 10
Women’s Ministry Panel: Women and Work as Worship & Witness
6:30-8:00PM, Halls ABC
Work as mission can take many different forms for women, both in the workplace and at home. Come hear a panel of diverse women speak to their experience of seeking to exalt Christ in the workplace. REGISTER HERE
Saturday, February 12
Serve the City Peninsula Big Volunteer Day
9AM-12PM, Downtown Newport News
Join others from around the peninsula for a family friendly morning of work. Invite a friend. Register at www.STCpeninsula.com
Sunday, February 13
Special Discipleship Class
The work of Serve the City around the world: Opening doors for the good news.
9AM, Room 202/203
Shannon Deal and members of Serve the City share the strategy and invite you to join the effort in any of a number of cities.
Special Discipleship Class
Living Vocationally
10:45AM, Room 202/203
“Living Vocationally” is about living the fullest life God has for you -- a life shaped around a cluster of divine calls, including but not limited to work. We will visit key biblical characters to learn more about what it means and doesn’t mean to live vocationally and why it promises a life of maximum satisfaction and maximum witness. Led by Dr. Mark Shaw, Chapel pastoral staff member and Director of the VIA Institute.
Sunday Highlights
Saturday, February 19
Serve the City Peninsula Family Friendly Workday
9AM-12PM, Downtown Newport News
Serve the City Peninsula offers a special family friendly workday for the Chapel followed by a lunchtime reflection with PCC Global Ministry Partners, Carlton and Shannon Deal, on the meaning of work done on behalf of the needy. Invite a neighbor or coworker to join you. Register at bit.ly/gmcstc22.
Everyday Disciple: Following Jesus in Everyday Work Life
Pre-Workshop Breakfast: 7:30 – 8:15AM
Workshop on Work: 8:30AM – 12:30PM*
An interactive workshop led by Dale Losch, President of Crossworld and two of his team. Come ready to think through your work from a biblical perspective and process your findings at table groups. Register for the workshop (and breakfast) here. *Children's programming will be offered for children 9 months to 5th grade from 8:30AM to 12:30PM with pre-registration.
Breakfast provided by the Men’s Ministry. For men and women attending the workshop. Please indicate “Breakfast” when you sign up for the workshop. If you’ve never had one of the MM breakfasts, you’re in for a treat. Table conversations will include your work experiences and Reflections on Work Survey tool.
Sunday, February 6
Special Discipleship Class
My Work As Global Witness? How?
9AM, Room 202/203
Crossworld’s Bill Fuller draws on stories from over 35 countries where they have disciple-makers doing just that. Come with questions about how your past or present work has equipped you already.
Sunday Highlights
- KidzMin and PSM will have a work-as-worship-and witness focus. Chapel men and women with various work experiences share how this looks in their lives. John Spadafora of Crossworld talks with our PSM students.
- Worship Service Ministry Report: John and Marilyn Lane report on their recently completed five-year experience using their educational and administrative work backgrounds in a part of the world closed to the gospel.
- Sermon: Dale Losch of Crossworld — How to turn your full-time job into full-time ministry
- Noon Lunch Reception (open to all): Hear from the Lanes how education is a wide-open door in much of the Middle East.
Home Groups During the Week
We start with a Bible study looking at work through the lens of creation, fall, redemption and consummation. We share how our view of work has been shaped by the world and reshaped by the gospel.
Thursday, February 10
Women’s Ministry Panel: Women and Work as Worship & Witness
6:30-8:00PM, Halls ABC
Work as mission can take many different forms for women, both in the workplace and at home. Come hear a panel of diverse women speak to their experience of seeking to exalt Christ in the workplace. REGISTER HERE
Saturday, February 12
Serve the City Peninsula Big Volunteer Day
9AM-12PM, Downtown Newport News
Join others from around the peninsula for a family friendly morning of work. Invite a friend. Register at www.STCpeninsula.com
Sunday, February 13
Special Discipleship Class
The work of Serve the City around the world: Opening doors for the good news.
9AM, Room 202/203
Shannon Deal and members of Serve the City share the strategy and invite you to join the effort in any of a number of cities.
Special Discipleship Class
Living Vocationally
10:45AM, Room 202/203
“Living Vocationally” is about living the fullest life God has for you -- a life shaped around a cluster of divine calls, including but not limited to work. We will visit key biblical characters to learn more about what it means and doesn’t mean to live vocationally and why it promises a life of maximum satisfaction and maximum witness. Led by Dr. Mark Shaw, Chapel pastoral staff member and Director of the VIA Institute.
Sunday Highlights
- KidzMin and PSM will have a work-as-worship-and witness focus. Ministry leaders emphasize the role school can play in shaping our view of work as worship.
- Worship Service Ministry Report: Jason and Christie Sutton share their experiences of mobilizing a workplace for Serve the City Peninsula and honoring God in whatever place we work.
- Sermon: Carlton Deal, Serve the City International and Chapel Global Ministry Partner - Worship and Witness through Service
- Noon Lunch Reception (open to all): Hear from Carlton and Shannon Deal how work of all types is being used to spread the gospel around the globe.
Saturday, February 19
Serve the City Peninsula Family Friendly Workday
9AM-12PM, Downtown Newport News
Serve the City Peninsula offers a special family friendly workday for the Chapel followed by a lunchtime reflection with PCC Global Ministry Partners, Carlton and Shannon Deal, on the meaning of work done on behalf of the needy. Invite a neighbor or coworker to join you. Register at bit.ly/gmcstc22.
About Our Guest Speakers & Presenters
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Dale LoschDale Losch is the president of Crossworld, a global mission agency with a 90-year history. It is a formative community of disciple-makers from all professions bringing God’s love to life in the world’s least-reached marketplaces. It has over 300 members serving in 35 countries around the globe. The Chapel sent the Lawson family to serve with Crossworld in Turkey last year, Matt as an American football coach and Carleen as an educator.
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John SpadaforaJohn Spadafora directs Crossworld’s church connections department. He asks questions like How many in our churches wake up Monday morning with a mindset like this: "God, I'm going to worship and serve You and my neighbor by going to work. Show me how to work creatively, display You well, and make disciples where You have called me to serve." And John helps churches offer answers.
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Carlton & Shannon DealCarlton and Shannon Deal are primary global partners sent from the Chapel. They founded and lead a global work, Serve the City. Carlton pastors The Well, a fresh approach to church life designed for reaching internationals (EU and business people with high stress jobs) and secular Europeans. Both ministries seek to serve impoverished refugees as well. He also leads the European Prayer Breakfast where he encourages leaders of Countries to use their work as worship. Deals are based in Brussels, Belgium.
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John & Marilyn LaneJohn and Marilyn Lane were sent by the Chapel to the Middle East where for the last five years they used their vocations as administrator and educator respectively to make Christ known in a Muslim context. They now serve in similar capacities in Charleston, South Carolina. They are “Exhibit A” of what this conference is all about.
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Next Steps
The Conference ends on the 13th. But what begins at the conference goes on. Here’s what we hope that will look like for you.
- Serve the City Peninsula/PCC Saturday, February 19, 9-12: A special workday and lunch for the Chapel and friends geared to help us apply what we’ve learned. And, hopefully, you’ll want to make it a regular habit.
- Explore options for using your work internationally. We’ll have information available online and on the display tables in the foyer. We’ll also have folks available who can point you in the right direction. Or you may contact a member of the pastoral staff to explore where the Lord could use your work experience.
- Consider a short term trip like the Brussels Serve the City annual project. STC has other options as well. Talk to a pastor or member of the Global Ministry Team to find out more.
- Make a habit of using the “Rose, Thorn, Noodle” tool to discuss the topic of work with your family or friends. Developing your own understanding of work as both worship and global witness will take some time. If you have children, now is the time to start the process.
- Initiate discussions of work as worship and global witness with colleagues at where you work and make it a regular part of your Home Group or Bible study interaction. We need each other to keep this focus.
- Read/view/listen to one or more of the resources you will have heard about during the conference. Do it in the next month. Discuss it with a friend.
About Global Ministry at PCC
Global Ministry Team
Because we believe so deeply in God calling us to global ministry, especially in the unreached areas of the world, PCC’s Global Ministry Team strives to educate, motivate and equip our congregation to play a part in what God is doing on a global scale. We oversee the sending and supporting of our Global Ministry Partners and our annual short-term trips. Our Global Ministry Team includes Abby Brocklesby, Carol Bryant, Charlie Carmichael (Chair), David Lott, Hannah Wissman (Vice Chair), Lois Shaw, Ryan Bradley, Tom Kenney (Global Ministry Pastor) and Will Newcomb.
Global Ministry Task Forces
Our Global Ministry Task Forces exist to help focus the congregation of PCC on what God is calling the church to spread the good news of Jesus locally and globally among all peoples. We have three task forces with a specific focus on our three unreached people groups. They are the Central Asia Task Force, the Kenya Task Force, and the M-People Advocacy Team. Friends of Refugees help us to care for local internationals and the Global Ministry Partner Care Task Force is made up of all the Advocates who support our Global Ministry Partners.
Global Ministry Partners & Advocates
Global Ministry Partners are people that we formally send out to engage in intentional vocational ministry. There are two classifications of Global Ministry Partners: Associate and Primary. Primary Global Ministry Partners receive greater levels of support from PCC and submit to more significant levels of accountability. We currently support 49 Global Ministry Partners who are doing ministry in over 13 different countries spread across 6 continental regions. About half are Primary and half are Associate. Every Global Ministry Partner has an official Advocate here at PCC who serves as a vital link between the congregation and the Global Ministry Partner whether they are on the other side of the world or here locally. Due to security reasons, not all of our Global Ministry Partners can be featured on the website or in paper publications.
For more information about our Global Partners and Global Ministry at PCC, visit our website - pccglobalmin.com.
Because we believe so deeply in God calling us to global ministry, especially in the unreached areas of the world, PCC’s Global Ministry Team strives to educate, motivate and equip our congregation to play a part in what God is doing on a global scale. We oversee the sending and supporting of our Global Ministry Partners and our annual short-term trips. Our Global Ministry Team includes Abby Brocklesby, Carol Bryant, Charlie Carmichael (Chair), David Lott, Hannah Wissman (Vice Chair), Lois Shaw, Ryan Bradley, Tom Kenney (Global Ministry Pastor) and Will Newcomb.
Global Ministry Task Forces
Our Global Ministry Task Forces exist to help focus the congregation of PCC on what God is calling the church to spread the good news of Jesus locally and globally among all peoples. We have three task forces with a specific focus on our three unreached people groups. They are the Central Asia Task Force, the Kenya Task Force, and the M-People Advocacy Team. Friends of Refugees help us to care for local internationals and the Global Ministry Partner Care Task Force is made up of all the Advocates who support our Global Ministry Partners.
Global Ministry Partners & Advocates
Global Ministry Partners are people that we formally send out to engage in intentional vocational ministry. There are two classifications of Global Ministry Partners: Associate and Primary. Primary Global Ministry Partners receive greater levels of support from PCC and submit to more significant levels of accountability. We currently support 49 Global Ministry Partners who are doing ministry in over 13 different countries spread across 6 continental regions. About half are Primary and half are Associate. Every Global Ministry Partner has an official Advocate here at PCC who serves as a vital link between the congregation and the Global Ministry Partner whether they are on the other side of the world or here locally. Due to security reasons, not all of our Global Ministry Partners can be featured on the website or in paper publications.
For more information about our Global Partners and Global Ministry at PCC, visit our website - pccglobalmin.com.
Questions? Want to help with conference events? Contact our Global Ministry pastor, Tom Kenney at tkenney@pccyorktown.com
Global Ministry Conference - Winter 2022 Brochure (pdf)
