2010 World Evangelization Conference
The World Evangelization Conference (WEC) is a campus-wide event focused on helping students serve Christ in a global context. Dallas Theological Seminary annually sets aside an entire week to focus the entire campus on WEC. Regular classes are canceled, and students serve as the main mobilizers of and participants in the conference. WEC also has active involvement from the missions community, attracting dozens of representatives from agencies representing all parts of the globe.
Dates
March 8-12, 2010
Plenary Speaker
Rev. Dr. Michael Frost, M.A., B.Th., D.Min.
Michael Frost is the Vice Principal (responsible for Faculty Development) and the Director of the Tinsley Institute at Morling College in Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia. Michael joined the faculty in 1994 and also has taught sociology and ideology at the undergraduate level in Australia. He has been directing the Tinsley Institute since it was founded in 1999.
Michael regularly speaks at churches, schools and conferences around Australia, including some of Australia’s largest festivals, as well as events overseas in Asia, South America, Africa and the USA. He has written eight books, Jesus the Fool (1994); Longing For Love (1996); Eyes Wide Open (1998), which won Australia’s Christian Book of the Year in 1999 and was revised and printed in the U.S. as Seeing God in the Ordinary in 2000; Lessons from Reel Life (2001), co-authored with Robert Banks; Freedom to Explore (2001); The Shaping of Things to Come (2003), co-authored with Alan Hirsch; Exiles (2006); and most recently ReJesus (2008).
He is the founding director of the Evangelism Intern Scheme, a program for developing evangelistic preachers among Morling College students, and he has been integral in the establishment of the Centre for Evangelism and Global Mission at Morling.
In 2002, Michael planted the missional community, Small Boat, Big Sea, in Manly. He is married to Carolyn, and they have three daughters.
