UPCOMING EVENTS
Phoenix Refugee Connections' Refugee 101 Ministry Workshop
Arizona has welcomed more than 100,000 refugees--vetted survivors of war and persecution--from all over the world since 1980, and they're here to stay. Come learn how this all works and how you can best love these new neighbors as they do the hard work of integrating into American society. This interactive workshop will equip you to love your refugee neighbors right here in metro Phoenix. Bring all your questions and join us!
All Surge Gathering
Leading through an Apocalypse: How to shepherd well in times of disorientation and disillusionment.
Once a quarter we gather together around a shared meal to collaborate, pray and dialogue as a unified witness to Gods movement in the city. Time and again we see that by being together we increase our shared witness and mission by effectively putting Jesus on display by activating latent potential in lay leadership, practitioners, pastors and the like.
You and your teams are invited.
Speaker info:
VERMON PIERRE is the lead pastor at Roosevelt Community Church, a diverse multiethnic congregation in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of Gospel Shaped Living and a contributor to The New City Catechism Devotional, 15 Things Seminary Couldn't Teach Me, and Revisiting 'Faithful Presence': To Change the World Five Years Later. He and his wife, Dennae, live in downtown Phoenix and have five children. His new book, Dearly Beloved: How God's Love for His Church Deepens Our Love for Each Other is available wherever books are sold.
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CALEB E. CAMPBELL has been a pastor at Desert Springs Bible Church in Phoenix, Arizona, since 2006 and lead pastor since 2015. He is a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary and serves as the regional director for the Surge Network. He lives in Phoenix with his wife and children. His new book Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor comes out July 2nd and is available for preorder.
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Phoenix Refugee Connections' Go & See Field Trip
Join us as we visit 2 of our local partners providing direct support to our refugee and immigrant neighbors in Central Phoenix: Lutheran Social Services (one of the Resettlement Agencies in Phoenix) and IRC’s Welcome Center (a shelter for asylum seekers). Learn how these organizations fill critical needs of the community in very distinct ways.
Participants will explore tangible opportunities to serve and get connected – whether it’s organizing a donation drive, providing meals, doing a one-time service project with your small group, practicing English, or co-sponsoring a family. Discover where you fit in!
Quarter Four Surge School Intensive
This event is for students that are partaking in the Surge School.
You will have the opportunity to participate in quarterly intensive where a prominent speaker in the area or even sometimes the authors of the books you read will speak with us directly concerning the content of that quarter. We encourage you to take advantage of these intensives as they will help you capture the essence of that quarter in a unique way. We will be offering all of our intensives via Zoom to allow for social distancing.
More info: https://www.surgenetwork.com/surge-students
Phoenix Refugee Connections' Share & Care Group Gathering
Phoenix Refugee Connections' Share & Care Group Gathering
Topic: Learning from 1st and 2nd Gen Immigrants, our Future Church Leaders
The center of Christianity has been shifting over the past century from the global north (North America, Europe) to the global south (Africa, Asia, Latin America). Throughout the Biblical narrative and even throughout human history, we see that God is on the move, and it's fascinating to see that through the lens of migration. His Church is spreading. Global Christianity is shifting, and new things are emerging.
Dr. Timothy Tennet, president of Asbury Theological Seminary has been quoted saying, "The immigrant population represents the greatest hope for Christian renewal in North America."
In this Share & Care Group Gathering, we will hear directly from a first generation Immigrant Church leader, Deenbo Kidane. Deenbo came to the US from Ethiopia as a child with her family. Today, she is the Youth and Young Adults Director at El-Bethel Evangelical Ethiopian Missionary Church in Glendale. She also is Co-Director of the Daniel Initiative, a network of international minority leaders. Deenbo has a long history of caring well for others, mentoring youth, and walking faithfully with people toward healing through the power of Christ.
Church Planting Cohort
In partnership with Redeemer City to City, Surge has a monthly church-planting cohort for current and potential church planters. The cohort, led by experienced planters and leaders, creates a relational environment to connect with other planters and utilizes City to City’s outstanding content to provide practical training for your context. Contact us if you are within 18 months of planting or in the first two years of your plant and would like to participate in our next cohort.
This year we will be meeting at Redemption Church Gilbert in the Commons. All events are 8:30am-12:30pm and include coffee and lunch.
Apostolic Fellowship International Leadership Conference
We live in times of cascading change. Our world is filled with fresh ideas, growing tensions, and new technologies; meanwhile every religion is seeing a decrease in children and youth continuing in their faith tradition. There is a decrease in numbers of people called into vocational religious life. Surge and Apostolic Fellowship International are hosting a conversation on developing emerging generations toward a faithful witness to Christ in fresh ways in the midst of our rapidly changing context.
Join us for this one day intensive for engaging dialogue, training, and tools.
Women in Leadership Gathering
Women in Leadership: A monthly lunch gathering of women who are committed to use their vocation and resources as a practice of peacemaking in our cities.
Meets on the last Thursday of the month.
Friendship in God
Jesus deepens the ancient belief that a person’s soul is a fragment of a larger whole and therefore goes out in search of other souls in which it finds its true completion.
After taking this course, you will have more tools and wisdom for a deepening, intimate love for God and one another.
Led by Grace Dytianquin, Emma Tautolo, John DelHousaye, and Ted Wueste
Cost: Free
This event is hosted by Spiritual Formation Society of Arizona
Women in Leadership Gathering
Women in Leadership: A monthly lunch gathering of women who are committed to use their vocation and resources as a practice of peacemaking in our cities.
Meets on the last Thursday of the month.
North Valley Regional Gathering
We meet from 11:30 am-1 pm on the 1st Wednesday of Feb, Mar, Apri, Sep, Oct and Nov.
These gatherings include a meal, prayer, and a presentation related to ministry leadership, soul care, and the health of the church of Phoenix.
If you have any questions, please email Caleb@dsbc.church
Women in Leadership Gathering
Women in Leadership: A monthly lunch gathering of women who are committed to use their vocation and resources as a practice of peacemaking in our cities.
Meets on the last Thursday of the month.
North Valley Regional Gathering
We meet from 11:30 am-1 pm on the 1st Wednesday of Feb, Mar, Apri, Sep, Oct and Nov.
These gatherings include a meal, prayer, and a presentation related to ministry leadership, soul care, and the health of the church of Phoenix.
If you have any questions, please email Caleb@dsbc.church
Women in Leadership Gathering
Women in Leadership: A monthly lunch gathering of women who are committed to use their vocation and resources as a practice of peacemaking in our cities.
Meets on the last Thursday of the month.
North Valley Regional Gathering
We meet from 11:30 am-1 pm on the 1st Wednesday of Feb, Mar, Apri, Sep, Oct and Nov.
These gatherings include a meal, prayer, and a presentation related to ministry leadership, soul care, and the health of the church of Phoenix.
If you have any questions, please email Caleb@dsbc.church
Women in Leadership Gathering
Women in Leadership: A monthly lunch gathering of women who are committed to use their vocation and resources as a practice of peacemaking in our cities.
Meets on the last Thursday of the month.
Phoenix Refugee Connections' Share & Care Group Gathering,
How to Build Bridges with our Refugee Neighbors of Different Faiths
Guest speaker, Michael Ly, will be sharing his expertise and experience on how to build bridges with our refugee neighbors of different faiths. We'll discuss the following:
- What do we mean and not mean by Building Bridges
- How to Cultivate a Posture of Learning
- How to Master the Art of Asking Questions
- How to put this all into practice
ACROSS Documentary Film Screening - Episode 4
ACROSS is the story of what happens when we set aside our politics and witness the humanity and faith of asylum seekers firsthand. Filmed in Honduras, Texas, and Illinois, this four-part docuseries follows three women and their children who escaped abuse and violence in Honduras and Guatemala, and a Midwestern church that experienced a complete transf3ormation in their hearts when they stopped seeing these families as news headlines and started treating them like brothers and sisters in Christ.
Learn more and register here: https://www.phxrc.org/across
EPISODE 4
WHEN: Mon., 4/15 at 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Including panel discussion with local immigration experts
WHERE: Arizona State University’s MIX Center (Mesa)
NOTES:
YES, it’s best if you watch all four episodes, but if you miss any, that’s fine!
YES, you may attend any episode screening, even if you missed previous episodes!
YES, if you register for any of the episode screenings, you’ll receive a discount code to watch the other episodes online anytime!
YES, you can watch any of the four episodes, anytime, here: www.acrossdocumentary.com
LEARN MORE AND REGISTER: https://www.phxrc.org/across
Church Planting Cohort
In partnership with Redeemer City to City, Surge has a monthly church-planting cohort for current and potential church planters. The cohort, led by experienced planters and leaders, creates a relational environment to connect with other planters and utilizes City to City’s outstanding content to provide practical training for your context.
This year we will be meeting at Redemption Church Gilbert in the Commons. All events are 8:30am-12:30pm and include coffee and lunch.
North Valley Regional Gathering
We meet from 11:30 am-1 pm on the 1st Wednesday of Feb, Mar, Apri, Sep, Oct and Nov.
These gatherings include a meal, prayer, and a presentation related to ministry leadership, soul care, and the health of the church of Phoenix.
If you have any questions, please email Caleb@dsbc.church
Women in Leadership Gathering
Women in Leadership: A monthly lunch gathering of women who are committed to use their vocation and resources as a practice of peacemaking in our cities.
Meets on the last Thursday of the month.
ACROSS Documentary Film Screening - Episode 3
ACROSS is the story of what happens when we set aside our politics and witness the humanity and faith of asylum seekers firsthand. Filmed in Honduras, Texas, and Illinois, this four-part docuseries follows three women and their children who escaped abuse and violence in Honduras and Guatemala, and a Midwestern church that experienced a complete transformation in their hearts when they stopped seeing these families as news headlines and started treating them like brothers and sisters in Christ.
Learn more and register here: https://www.phxrc.org/across
Free screenings of a 4-part docuseries
EPISODE 3
WHEN: Mon., 3/25 at 6:30-7:30 p.m. MST
WHERE: Online
EPISODE 4
WHEN: Mon., 4/15 at 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Including panel discussion with local immigration experts
WHERE: Arizona State University’s MIX Center (Mesa)
NOTES:
YES, it’s best if you watch all four episodes, but if you miss any, that’s fine!
YES, you may attend any episode screening, even if you missed previous episodes!
YES, if you register for any of the episode screenings, you’ll receive a discount code to watch the other episodes online anytime!
YES, you can watch any of the four episodes, anytime, here: www.acrossdocumentary.com
LEARN MORE AND REGISTER: https://www.phxrc.org/across
Church Planting Cohort
In partnership with Redeemer City to City, Surge has a monthly church-planting cohort for current and potential church planters. The cohort, led by experienced planters and leaders, creates a relational environment to connect with other planters and utilizes City to City’s outstanding content to provide practical training for your context. Contact us if you are within 18 months of planting or in the first two years of your plant and would like to participate in our next cohort.
This year we will be meeting at Redemption Church Gilbert in the Commons. All events are 8:30am-12:30pm and include coffee and lunch.
Neighbor's Table: Engaging Mass Incarceration
Neighbor's Table: Engaging Mass Incarceration
Saturday, March 16, 2024
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Location:
Roosevelt Community Church
924 N 1st St
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Neighbors Table is a discipleship experience equipping God’s people toward radical love of neighbor by supplying tools to advocate for and love those who society overlooks, mistreats, dehumanizes and marginalized.
“Making hospitality toward neighbors as a way of life…”
Neighbor’s Table: Criminal Justice Reform is a One Day intensive liminal learning experience. Our hope is to see that our punitive justice system is juxtaposed to the restorative justice model of Jesus.
General Events link:
https://neighbors-table.com/events
For questions or more information contact:
Emma Tautolo
emma.tautolo@surgenetwork.com
or
Chrystal McCowan
chrystal@surgenetwork.com
North Phoenix Regional Gathering
We meet from 11:30 am-1 pm on the 1st Wednesday of Feb, Mar, Apri, Sep, Oct and Nov.
These gatherings include a meal, prayer, and a presentation related to ministry leadership, soul care, and the health of the church of Phoenix.
If you have any questions, please email Caleb@dsbc.church
2024 USA DISCIPLESHIP CONFERENCE
THE FUTURE OF DISCIPLESHIP: A GLOBAL FORUM
Bringing international and local leaders together to better understand Jesus’ command to make disciples of all nations, and to collaborate with one another on the challenges and successes of discipleship in their cultural context.
ACROSS Documentary Film Screening - Episode 2
ACROSS is the story of what happens when we set aside our politics and witness the humanity and faith of asylum seekers firsthand. Filmed in Honduras, Texas, and Illinois, this four-part docuseries follows three women and their children who escaped abuse and violence in Honduras and Guatemala, and a Midwestern church that experienced a complete transformation in their hearts when they stopped seeing these families as news headlines and started treating them like brothers and sisters in Christ.
Learn more and register here: https://www.phxrc.org/across
Free screenings of a 4-part docuseries
EPISODE 2
WHEN: Fri., 3/1 at 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Including panel discussion with local immigration experts, moderated by Pastor Caleb Campbell
WHERE: Desert Springs Bible Church (North Phoenix)
* Childcare available *
EPISODE 3
WHEN: Mon., 3/25 at 6:30-7:30 p.m. MST
WHERE: Online
EPISODE 4
WHEN: Mon., 4/15 at 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Including panel discussion with local immigration experts
WHERE: Arizona State University’s MIX Center (Mesa)
NOTES:
YES, it’s best if you watch all four episodes, but if you miss any, that’s fine!
YES, you may attend any episode screening, even if you missed previous episodes!
YES, if you register for any of the episode screenings, you’ll receive a discount code to watch the other episodes online anytime!
YES, you can watch any of the four episodes, anytime, here: www.acrossdocumentary.com
LEARN MORE AND REGISTER: https://www.phxrc.org/across
Neighbor's Table: Engaging Mass Incarceration
Neighbor's Table: Engaging Mass Incarceration
Saturday, February 24, 2024
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Location:
Roosevelt Community Church
924 N 1st St
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Neighbors Table is a discipleship experience equipping God’s people toward radical love of neighbor by supplying tools to advocate for and love those who society overlooks, mistreats, dehumanizes and marginalized.
“Making hospitality toward neighbors as a way of life…”
Neighbor’s Table: Criminal Justice Reform is a One Day intensive liminal learning experience. Our hope is to see that our punitive justice system is juxtaposed to the restorative justice model of Jesus.
General Events link:
https://neighbors-table.com/events
For questions or more information contact:
Emma Tautolo
emma.tautolo@surgenetwork.com
or
Chrystal McCowan
chrystal@surgenetwork.com
Women in Leadership Gathering
Women in Leadership: A monthly lunch gathering of women who are committed to use their vocation and resources as a practice of peacemaking in our cities.
Meets on the last Thursday of the month.
Phoenix Refugee Connections' Share & Care Group Gathering
Gather together with others doing local refugee ministry: share your experiences, gain new insights from others, pray together, and know you're not alone!
These informal "Share & Care" group meetings occur monthly at varying locations across the valley. Attend once or once a month! There's no commitment and no need to only attend meetings in your geographic area. Join whenever you can!
This time, PRC members, Lorry Peterson and Shelby Little, will be sharing their knowledge and experience on the fruit of long-term commitment in refugee ministry.
ACROSS Documentary Film Screening - Episode 1
ACROSS is the story of what happens when we set aside our politics and witness the humanity and faith of asylum seekers firsthand. Filmed in Honduras, Texas, and Illinois, this four-part docuseries follows three women and their children who escaped abuse and violence in Honduras and Guatemala, and a Midwestern church that experienced a complete transformation in their hearts when they stopped seeing these families as news headlines and started treating them like brothers and sisters in Christ.
Learn more and register here: https://www.phxrc.org/across
Free screenings of a 4-part docuseries
EPISODE 1
WHEN: Mon., 2/12 at 6:30-7:30 p.m. MST
WHERE: Online
EPISODE 2
WHEN: Fri., 3/1 at 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Including panel discussion with local immigration experts, moderated by Pastor Caleb Campbell
WHERE: Desert Springs Bible Church (North Phoenix)
* Childcare available *
EPISODE 3
WHEN: Mon., 3/25 at 6:30-7:30 p.m. MST
WHERE: Online
EPISODE 4
WHEN: Mon., 4/15 at 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Including panel discussion with local immigration experts
WHERE: Arizona State University’s MIX Center (Mesa)
NOTES:
YES, it’s best if you watch all four episodes, but if you miss any, that’s fine!
YES, you may attend any episode screening, even if you missed previous episodes!
YES, if you register for any of the episode screenings, you’ll receive a discount code to watch the other episodes online anytime!
YES, you can watch any of the four episodes, anytime, here: www.acrossdocumentary.com
LEARN MORE AND REGISTER: https://www.phxrc.org/across
Church Planting Cohort
In partnership with Redeemer City to City, Surge has a monthly church-planting cohort for current and potential church planters. The cohort, led by experienced planters and leaders, creates a relational environment to connect with other planters and utilizes City to City’s outstanding content to provide practical training for your context. Contact us if you are within 18 months of planting or in the first two years of your plant and would like to participate in our next cohort.
This year we will be meeting at Redemption Church Gilbert in the Commons. All events are 8:30am-12:30pm and include coffee and lunch.
Phoenix Refugee Connections' Worship Together with Iglesia Experimenta Vida
Come worship alongside our brothers and sisters in Bilingual and Spanish-speaking churches right here in metro-Phoenix; learn from them; see the Lord and your faith through the eyes of a different culture. This time, we’ll be visiting Iglesia Experimenta Vida.
North Phoenix Regional Gathering
The topic this month is "Politics, Polarization and Peacemaking with Pastor Caleb Campbell".
We meet from 11:30 am-1 pm on the 1st Wednesday of Feb, Mar, Apri, Sep, Oct and Nov.
These gatherings include a meal, prayer, and a presentation related to ministry leadership, soul care, and the health of the church of Phoenix.
If you have any questions, please email Caleb@dsbc.church
East Valley Regional Gathering
Lunch is included.
Your Work Matters
The world places value on the type of work that you do, but God places value on how your work serves others. Join us as we talk about how the world places value on the type of work that you do, but God places value on how your work serves others. The speaker will be Jason Turner. Sign up below
Phoenix Refugee Connections' Go & See Field Trip
Join us as we visit 3 of our local partners providing direct support to our refugee neighbors in Central Phoenix: Abounding Service, Catholic Charities, and IRC’s Community Garden.
Arizona Pastor Conference: Politics, Polarization & Peacemaking
- Conference 8am-3pm Central Christian Church
- Pastor Dinner w/ Russel Moore 5pm at Phoenix Bible Church
- All Church Keynote w/ Russel Moore 7pm at Phoenix Bible Church
Missional Training Center Anniversary Celebration
An event to celebrate 10 years of God's faithfulness to MTC.
Join us for a delightful evening of appetizers and dessert as
we extend our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who has been involved with MTC.
All are welcome to attend. Please RSVP by January 12th.
Women in Leadership Gathering
Women in Leadership: A monthly lunch gathering of women who are committed to use their vocation and resources as a practice of peacemaking in our cities.
Meets on the last Thursday of the month.
Share & Care Group Gathering
Share & Care Group Gathering
Topic: Cross-Cultural Competency
PRC's first Share & Care Group gathering in the new year will be at a church in Central Phoenix, facilitated by our guest speaker, Helen Ryan, who will be sharing her wisdom and experience on Cross-Cultural Competency.
Helen served as Missions Director at her church for more than 20 years, training and leading dozens of short-term mission teams and ministering to missionaries in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe. For much of that time, and into the present, she has worked alongside several refugee ministries locally.
These informal "Share & Care" group meetings occur monthly at varying locations across the valley. Attend once or once a month! There's no commitment and no need to only attend meetings in your geographic area. Join whenever you can!
Quarter Three Surge School Intensive
This event is for students that are partaking in the Surge School.
You will have the opportunity to participate in quarterly intensive where a prominent speaker in the area or even sometimes the authors of the books you read will speak with us directly concerning the content of that quarter. We encourage you to take advantage of these intensives as they will help you capture the essence of that quarter in a unique way. We will be offering all of our intensives via Zoom to allow for social distancing.