Verge: Chicago Regional – Nov 1& 2, 2013

Speakers

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ALAN HIRSCH BIO

Alan is the founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network. He is also part of the leadership team of Christian Associates, a missional church-planting agency with focus on Western Europe. Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is a teacher and key mission strategist for churches across the western world. His popular book with Michael Frost, The Shaping of Things to Come, is widely considered to be a seminal text on mission. Alan’s book The Forgotten Ways, has quickly become a key reference for missional thinking, particularly as it relates to movements. His recent books include ReJesus, Right Here Right Now, On The Verge and his newest book called The Permanent Revolution. His experience in leadership includes leading a local church movement among the marginalized as well as heading up the Mission and Revitalization work of his denomination. Alan is and adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary and lectures frequently throughout Australia, Europe, and the U.S.

DHATI LEWIS BIO

Dhati is the Lead Pastor at Blueprint Church in Atlanta, GA. Dhati, born and raised in California, moved to Texas for his undergraduate studies at the University of North Texas and his graduate studies at Dallas Theological Seminary (Master of Arts in Cross Cultural Ministries). While in Texas, Dhati served on staff at Denton Bible Church for 7 years. He started Plumbline, a very successful college ministry on UNT and TWU campuses. He served as the college pastor there and eventually planted a church, which he pastored for 3 years. During that time, he also served as chaplain to UNT’s football team and coached high school football (sports have always been a big passion for Dhati and a large part of how he came to the Lord). Dhati furthered his training in Little Rock, AR at Fellowship Associates in 2008-2009, completing a year long course designed to train pastors in the area of church planting. After completion of that course, Dhati and his family moved from Arkansas to Atlanta, GA with dreams to start a church that was both culturally relevant and biblically accurate. Dhati, along with 25 other individuals moving from Texas to GA, launched Blueprint Church in 2009. Dhati’s passions are for church planting and discipleship. Dhati is married to Angie Lewis and they have six beautiful children: Trinity(8), Jade(7), Briaiah(5), Dhati Jr(4), Brayden(3) and Christian(2)

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Info

VERGE Regional:Chicago is not just a conference, it is an experience and a conversation, globally connected and locally focused — for anyone pursuing the mission of God, in community, whatever the context, for the sake of the Gospel. Verge Chicago will resource the Church in Chicago and the greater Midwest to make disciples who make disciples in every sphere and domain of society, advocate for the poor and oppressed, mobilize urban and global mission leaders, and champion movements of gospel-centered missional communities.

Join us for 1.5 days of challenging main sessions, music, local-led conversations, networking opportunities and more, Verge Chicago 2013 is here to encourage, build up and renew all kinds of leaders engaged in the mission of God.

Theme

What does it mean to be a church on mission? To live with gospel intentionality in the places where we dwell, work & play? To grow disciples by example — both men & women? Recently there has been more and more of a resurgence in the interest and passion for making and multiplying disciples — for being a church on mission.

We long to see a Church that embraces the “forgotten ways” of God’s mission and will focus on four paradigm shifts necessary for, our maturity, Chicago’s good and Jesus’ fame. That is why our theme at Verge Chicago 2013 is: