"helping Christian leaders rethink the future"

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BECOME A STRATEGIC TEAM WITH JAY GARY

Recently I sat down with executives from one of America's top Christian ministries. They have a great legacy of leadership training, with hundreds of staff in the U.S. and around the world. While they do strategic planning for operational areas, they are looking for new ways to create strategic conversations among their regional and national leaders. Recently Christian Futures has found a "strategic foresight" survey, covering strategic thinking, acting and influencing. If you are looking for ways to create more innovation and creativity among your leaders and teams, read the URL below and email me offline about Hughes and Beatty's new STRATegy survey, and how you can use it with your executive team:

http://tinyurl.com/gs7v4

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FUTURE PROOF YOUR MINISTRY
Develop future-fluency skills

Would you like to learn how to create a future-responsive, rather than just past-driven ministry? Christian Futures is offering our most accessible 6-hour workshop online three times between now and September. All you need is a PC-based computer and headphones/microphone to participate. The dates are a) June 6-7, b) July 18-19 from 4:30 - 7:30 pm EST, or c) Sept 14th, live in Va. Beach, starting at 8:00 pm. Check out our 6-minute preview of this event and workshop details at:
 
http://www.christianfutures.com/futureproof_online.shtml

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FORESIGHT 2006 WILL MEET SEPT 20-22nd
Fourth Annual Futures Conference for Christian Leaders

Join Dr. Ted Peters, Dr. Clem Bezold and Jay Gary for three-days in Virginia Beach, VA at Regent University. This year's national conference will focus on the future of aging, bioethics and faith ministry. We will ask, How do we approach a Genetics Age, and lead from the future? How do we identify emerging issues, preempt the undesirable and advance the desirable? How do our organizations, churches, ministries, and schools chart their way forward? Register between now and mid-August and save $90 off the walk-in price and get the book "Futures: Human and Divine" FREE. See more details at:

http://www.regent.edu/acad/sls/conferences/foresight/

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EARN YOUR GRADUATE DEGREE IN STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
New Program Aims to Train Christian Futurists

I have teamed up with Regent University's School of Leadership Studies to offer a new "futures" degree for emerging workplace and ministry leaders. This flexible online-M.A. in Strategic Foresight launches this fall. People take courses in leadership, futures thinking, social change, systems dynamics, business forecasting, scenario development and strategic change. The program is designed to help leaders launch think-tanks, set up emerging issue tracking programs for organizations or launch strategic change initiatives in their field. Electives cover professional futures skills, global future outlooks, organizational futures and Evangelical futures. The full Master of Arts degree can be completed in just 18 to 36 months, and new students can apply to the program three times a year, by July, November or April.

http://www.regent.edu/leadership/msf

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CHRISTIAN FUTURES
"helping leaders rethink their future and strategy"
P.O. Box 1777
Colorado Springs, CO  80901
Phone 1-719-636-2000
Email me at Christian Futures
Web: http://www.christianfutures.com

Christian Futures Network exists to advance the mission of the church by helping leaders empower their teams 1) to think creatively and critically about the future of society, and 2) to reinvent their ministry in light of these new contexts.

We offer a $50 a year mentoring program, whereby people can become "members" of Christian futures and get access to our download center and discuss their leadership study path with a coach to develop their Christian futurist skills. Become a member of Christian Futures and join an army of David's that are sharpening their sling. See http://www.christianfutures.com/joincfn.shtml

ADVISORS: Dr. David Barrett, Dr. Gary Clark, Dr. Bill O'Brien, Dr. Tom Sine, Dr. Bruce Winston, Dr. Todd Johnson, Dick Durant

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FAMILY/STAFF NEWS: Olgy and I continue to enjoy life in Colorado Springs. I am half way done with my PhD in Organizational Leadership, I hope! After a year in Germany with the Army, our oldest, David (22), will be home mid-June for 14 days. Christine (20) will be home for the summer studying, and then off in August to Boston for her senior year. We plan to attend the World Future Society in late July together in Toronto, and visit family in Virginia and Maryland in August. Love to see any of you then. --Jay Gary

In terms of our staff family, we have grown by 200% the past year! Bruce and Mary Ellen McCluggage moved to Colorado Springs to work with Christian Futures last summer. Bruce has been running our local training events and student programs. Rich and Brenda Lotterhos, from Boulder, Colorado joined our team this past Fall. Rich is developing our consulting services, with specialities in training, assessment and organizational transformation. Let us know how we can serve you.