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Towards a Missiological Perspective of Collaboration: Insights from Scripture and Global Mission
Overview This lecture explores biblical foundations, historical development in mission collaboration, and key statements on collaboration, contrasting them with sociological collaboration models: Attendees will gain theological, missiological, sociological and practical insights into fostering trust, unity, and mutual accountability in collaborative efforts serving God’s mission:
Speaker Kirk Franklin
About the speaker Dr. Kirk Franklin (PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa) is a researcher, author, educator, and speaker about global missions based in Melbourne, Australia. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Melbourne School of Theology, associate faculty at OCMS, and a missiologist with the Wycliffe Global Alliance.
Overview Is it possible for academia to use generative AI responsibly? What are AI’s biases that help or hinder its use in mission studies for scholars from around the world? What practical ways can AI tools be used in research and scholarship? These and other relevant questions will be explored in this presentation:
Speaker Kirk Franklin
About the speaker Dr. Kirk Franklin has authored the Regnum-published books Towards Global Missional Leadership (2017) and co-authored A Missional Leadership History (2022) and The Mission Matrix (2024). Kirk was born in Papua New Guinea and served as a missionary there. He has had executive leadership and governance roles in Australian and global mission agencies. He is a lecturer in missional leadership and doctoral supervisor based in Melbourne, Australia and an associate faculty member in Global Missional Leadership at OCMS.