Denver entrepreneur Helen Young Hayes will share with Karam Forum 2022, in a session hosted by Denise Daniels, how her business is creating pathways to work for people with tough histories who don’t get a lot of opportunities. And Jeff Hoffmeyer of the Denver Institute for Faith and Work will introduce us to believers in Denver architecture and real estate who are exploring how to use space to bring life to their city.
Amos Yong, Lisa Slayton, Michaela O’Donnell, Fernando Tamara and more will also lead our collaboration, with a focus on Thriving in a Changing World.
Join us on November 17-18! We’re looking forward to gathering as we reaffirm, reimagine and refresh our vocations – collaborating to seek new life for ourselves, our students, our schools and our communities.
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We’ll start at 7:00pm on Thursday, Nov. 17, and finish up with lunch on Friday, Nov. 18.
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One of the most important ways Christians can create genuine economic flourishing and transform the way a culture treats people is through entrepreneurship. As Element 9 of the Economic Wisdom Project’s Twelve Elements of Economic Wisdom puts it: “The most effective way to turn around poverty, economic distress, and injustice is by expanding opportunity for people to develop and deploy their God-given productive potential in communities of exchange, especially through entrepreneurship.” That’s why theological schools are increasingly attentive to this topic.
At Karam Forum 2022, we’ll hear from Christians who are thinking theologically about how to bless people through innovative use of space in architecture and real estate. This continues our longstanding Karam Forum tradition of yielding the stage to folks from the local community wherever we are, to hear about what God is doing. Jeff Hoffmeyer of the Denver Institute for Faith and Work will lead this session.
Denise Daniels of Wheaton College will help us explore what’s emerging now in the world of Christian entrepreneurship, as God’s people find new ways of bringing life to the world. She has been at the forefront of research into Christian entrepreneurship, and into a better empirical understanding of business issues Christians are particularly concerned with, for many years.
After sharing with us what she’s finding in the world of Christian entrepreneurship, Daniels will interview Denver business leader Helen Young Hayes. We’re humbled by Hayes’ amazing story: After a harrowing encounter with eternity, she left the heights of Wall Street – where she had run some of the largest investment funds in the world – to start a business in Denver that hires former convicts and others on the margins who need a path into the workforce.
By moving people from the margins to sustained economic mobility, ActivateWork creates what it calls “triple wins for job seekers, employers and the community.” Hayes’ bio at ActivateWork places the company’s mission in cultural context, noting that “the American Dream – a life of flourishing – is elusive, as generational poverty becomes the default for too many men and women from underrepresented populations.”
We’re looking forward to these important opportunities!
We also have plenty more in store, including:
Amos Yong will give our keynote address, on how our schools can find new opportunities amid the challenges of digitalization, globalization and pluralization by relying on the Holy Spirit. Discussion will follow with Lisa Slayton, Fernando Tamara and Philip Thompson.
Michaela O’Donnell and Meryl Herr will lead us through a vocational formation workshop they’ve developed at Fuller’s De Pree Center to harness the power of imagination and hope and help us find life-giving renewal in our tumultuous professional circumstances. Their workshop was designed for people going through the toughest vocational challenges, so by offering it to theological educators, we are really stress testing it!
Kara Martin of Alphacrucis College continues to lead our annual Global Session, in which colleagues from around the world join us via Zoom. We always discover rich insights by hearing about what the Holy Spirit is doing among our global peers in theological education. This year we’ll hear an update about developments in Africa from Bernard Boyo and Linda Chonco.
Register today to join us LIVE in Denver, OR by Zoom from wherever you are!
