2018 Conference "What is the Gospel?" – Plenary Speakers Audio Compilation MP3 Download $8.92 Buy now The following is the audio compilation from Missions Fest 2018. Our theme was "What is the Gospel?". Our understanding of what "Gospel" means can vary dramatically from one church to another. Over the course of the weekend we tried to unpack what "Gospel" means because of its essential connection to our effective participation in mission. Recorded Sessions Friday evening: Michael Goheen & Alycia Wood - Starting with Jesus' Gospel: The Good News of the Kingdom. Saturday morning: Michael Goheen & Trevor Larsen - The Gospel and the True Story of the World. Saturday evening: Jarrod McKenna - Youth Rally Sunday morning: Trevor Larsen & Jarrod McKenna - Unified Worship Sunday afternoon: Michael Goheen - Finding our place in the Biblical story. Speaker Biographies Michael Goheen Michael Goheen (Ph.D. Utrecht) is Director of Theological Education and Scholar-in-Residence at Missional Training Center, Phoenix, AZ. He is married to Marnie for 38 years and they have four married ‘children’ and ten grandchildren. He splits his time between Phoenix, AZ and Vancouver, BC. He has authored or edited nine books including Introducing Christian Mission Today (IVP, 2014), A Light to the Nations (Baker, 2011), and Reading the Bible Missionally (Eerdmans 2016). Alycia Wood Alycia Wood graduated from Roberts Wesleyan College with a degree in Criminal Justice and from Marygrove College with a Master’s in Social Justice. She also graduated from the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and spent two years as a Fellow with RZIM in New England. Alycia’s speaking background is quite diverse. From universities (such as MIT, UCONN, Harvard, University of Massachusetts, Boston University, Dartmouth College, and Brown University), to retreats, from conferences to men’s and women’s prisons, Alycia has addressed major issues surrounding faith to diverse audiences. Additionally, she has traveled to countries such as Haiti, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica, volunteering at soup kitchens and orphanages as her passions for “showing Christ” extends beyond her local environment. In her spare time, Alycia enjoys music and is a lover of all things football and hockey. Jarrod McKenna Jarrod has done many things: he’s been a pastor, a protestor, the National Advisor for Youth, Faith and Activism for World Vision Australia, founder of the Love Makes A Way campaign and the First Home Project, theologian, and dad. “He subscribes to the whacky idea that Christianity should look like Jesus and that compels him to do good, important things.” Trevor Larsen In the US in his 20s and 30s, *Trevor served as a teacher and coach, a church planter among Asian refugees, and a pastor. Based the last 25 years in an Asian country, *Trevor serves as a seminary professor. He started and coaches mission teams in which local coworkers lead multiplying discipleship movements in Unreached People Groups. *Trevor develops leaders’ learning communities to maximize the fruit-bearing productivity of local church planters. These men, in turn, mentor others, multiplying fruit for God in small discipleship groups, up to the 11th generation. Trevor presented Movement Case which describe how God impacting Unreached People Groups, and how He uses people whose practices are aligned with Him . . . to bear much fruit.