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Open for Business Conference Plenaries

On three consecutive afternoons (December 28-30), we gathered in plenary sessions for all Open for Business delegates. Only those Urbana delegates who selected "Open for Business" as their track were able to attend these plenary sessions, but now MP3 audio files are available (below) for free download to any and all.

All Sessions

Brian Moss, Worship Leader (Director of Worship, Music, and the Arts, Knox Presbyterian Church, Seattle)

Marie Williams, Emcee (InterVarsity MBA Ministry)

David Lambert, Prayer Leader (Pastor, Cellebration Fellowship)

Jay Sivits, Prayer Leader (InterVarsity Grad & Faculty Ministry)

December 28: God's Vision for Business

Bill PollardMP3 audio download (21 minutes, 4.9 MB)

  • Former CEO, ServiceMaster
  • Author of Serving Two Masters? Reflections on God and Profit
  • Author of Soul of the Firm

Jeff Van DuzerMP3 audio download (39 minutes, 9 MB)

  • Dean and Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Business Law, Seattle Pacific University School of Business and Economics
  • Former partner, Davis Wright Tremaine

December 29: The Global Opportunity and Global Challenge

Father Ben BeltranMP3 audio download (11 minutes, 2.5 MB)

  • Parish of the Risen Christ, Smokey Mountain, Manila, Philippines
  • Founder of dozens of micro-enterprises
  • Winner of World Vision's 1997 Robert W. Pierce Award for Christian Service

Ram GidoomalMP3 audio download (47 minutes, 10.7 MB)

  • Chairman, The Employability Forum, UK
  • Former UK Group Chief Executive, the Inlaks Group
  • Founder, Christmas Cracker Charity

December 30: Equipping His People for Works of Service

Joseph VijayamMP3 audio download (23 minutes, 5.2 MB)

Panel discussionMP3 audio download (45 minutes, 10.3 MB)

Will Messenger, moderator

Al Erisman, panelist

Julie Hindmarsh, panelist

Joseph Vijayam, panelist

 
 

"Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!" "I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life." "

Mark 10:28-30 (NIV)

 
 

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