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Muslim Documentary Accepted at Festival
British Churches Focus on 2012 Olympics in London
Ken Starr Joins Baptist Church – Without Attending
The Baptist General Convention of Missouri is developing a video resource library to assist churches as they train their leaders. Contact the convention office if you would like to reserve one of the videos listed below, and check back to learn about new resources. Copies of some videos are available free of charge.
The
Baptist Center for Ethics recently released a new DVD resource entitled
Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism. This new video considers
past mistakes and future challenges regarding racial unity and social
justice. From the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the current immigration
debate, Beneath the Skin peels back prejudices and confronts them with
biblical mandates. Interviewees come from nearly a dozen states
and represent the best in Baptist life, including: preacher and activist
Will Campbell, Aidsand Wright-Riggins of American Baptist Churches USA,
and Javier Elizondo of Baptist University of the Americas.
The Baptist General Convention of Missouri is proud to have been one
of the organizations providing funding for this project. We are
also helping to sponsor a number of screenings for the film. The
DVD comes with a passcode for downloading a free discussion guide.
We are delighted to provide this resource for your church at no cost.
Just contact our office at
bettiejo@baptistgcm.org or (888) 420-2426 extension 701 for your
FREE copy.
The
Baptist Center for Ethics is pleased to release "The Nazareth Manifesto,"
a 13-minute look at Jesus' first public statement, as recorded in Luke 4. In
that chapter, and verses 18 and 19 in particular, Jesus sets forth his agenda:
good news to the poor, release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind,
freedom to the oppressed, and the year of jubilee. The DVD comes loaded
with extras, including a segment on the "prosperity gospel" and readings of Luke
4 in both the King James and Cotton Patch versions.
DVD interviewees include:
Copies of the DVD are available free from the convention office.
Theologians under hitler
This
film, based upon groundbreaking research, introduces the viewer to three of the greatest Christian scholars of the twentieth century: Paul Althaus,
Emanuel Hirsch, and Gerhard Kittel, men who were also outspoken supporters
of Hitler and the Nazi party. This provocative film asks: how could
something like this happen in the heart of Christian Europe? Could it happen
again? How does the scholarship of this period affect the church today? Does
the church of today retain the ability to recognize profound evil? The
one-hour video is an excellent way to stimulate discuss. You may want
to invite some of the participants to form a panel discussion following the
presentation. Contact the convention office to
reserve the video for presentation in your church.
World Hunger DVD Resource
The
Baptist General Convention of Missouri is excited to announce that the
Baptist Center for Ethics is releasing a new DVD designed to educate, equip
and empower Baptists to address cooperatively global poverty. The BGCM
helped underwrite the DVD and will provide a FREE copy of it to any Baptist
church in Missouri that requests it. Click the link below for more
information.
Leadership Videos
The convention is developing video resources that may be loaned to churches. Contact the convention office for information regarding the videos listed below.
Discovering
The Future Series: The Power of Vision by Joel Barker
How did most of a sixth grade class in a neighborhood where few students
even finish high school beat the odds and go to college? How do
organizations inspire their employees to be more than observers, to actively
create their futures?
The Power of Vision demonstrates that having a positive vision of the future
is the most forceful motivator for change for success that companies,
schools, communities, nations, and individuals possess. Unforgettable
and moving, The Power of Vision will inspire the people in your organization
to think together, dream together, and act together to make a difference.
Having a positive vision of the future is what gives meaning to our present
life.
KEY CONCEPTS:
Create A Compelling Vision That Goes Beyond Numbers.
Challenge Others To Stretch Beyond Their Perceived Limits.
Inspire A Personal, Daily Connection To A Shared Vision.
Improve Decision Making.
Have you ever
been connected with a group of people who were faced with an almost
impossible task? Perhaps together you put in the extra effort to get the new
product out. You pulled together and set aside ego and title, just rolled up
your sleeves and got the job done. It felt great. Wouldn’t it be wonderful
to connect like this everyday? This is easier said than done!
In this new video, The Spirit at Work,
best-selling author James Autry offers a perspective that can help. His
ideas are down to earth and useful. He contends that it all depends on five
ways of being. These five principles will allow us to nurture our own Spirit
at Work.
"There is no business; there are only people. Business exists only among
people and for people. Seems simple enough, but not enough people seem to
get it."—James A. Autry
Key Concepts:
Be Authentic: be your real self
Be Vulnerable: let go of the myth of control
Be Accepting: forget about winning and losing
Be Present: pay attention
Be Useful: serve others
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Highly entertaining and motivational, the Give ’em the PICKLE! training video will inspire management and employees to do the most important thing they can do in business...take care of the customer. Give 'em the Pickle Key Learning Points...
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The New Business of Paradigms
Today, his message is more important than ever. That's why his best-selling training program has been reinvented. Joel Barker's The New Business of Paradigms retains the same powerful stories and examples from the original program but repackages them with a current look and feel. Key Concepts:
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PICKLES
are those special or extra things you do to make people happy. It's a
hand written thank you note with every order shipped. It's walking the
customer to the item they're looking for rather than pointing... or
maybe it's simply calling them by name. The trick is figuring out what
your customers want and then making sure they get it. That's the message
behind Give ’em the PICKLE!
Joel
Barker's NEW Business of Paradigms includes the original Classic
Edition, which uses the same powerful stories and examples from the
original program, and the 21st Century Edition, which offers all new
examples and stories to illustrate recent paradigms shifts. For more
than a decade, Joel Barker has helped us deal with change. 
