Culture Specific Churches with Dennis Conrad

Episode 20 of Navigate features a conversation with Dennis Conrad about embracing cultural and ethnic diversity among our churches. Culture-specific churches present a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Tim and Dennis talk about what characterizes a culture-specific church and the multi-generational families within these churches. Ministry leaders serving in their home countries and cross-culturally will be moved by Dennis' heart and motivated by his challenge to love, listen to, and embrace those who are different from us.For over 10 years, Dennis Conrad has been Director of Intercultural Ministries for the Nor-Cal-Nevada District of the Assemblies of God, which means he has served as liaison between the District Resource Center and culture-specific churches.  (Currently, there are close to 100 second-language churches in the NCN District from the Fijian, Filipino, Samoan, Slavic, and Tongan Fellowships, and individual churches that are Arabic, Chinese, Deaf, East Indian, Hispanic, Iranian, Japanese, Korean, Native American, Portuguese, Romanian, and Vietnamese.) Dennis and Lynda were associate pastors in youth ministry and Christian Ed (full-time and part-time) in Susanville, Orangevale, and Modesto, California.Dennis has an M.A. in education and taught 25 years in CA public schools.  Lynda worked as a principal's secretary for over 20 years, and has taught children's church most of her life. The Conrads lived in Fiji from 2002 to 2007 where they taught at the South Pacific Bible College.  As Intercultural Ministries Director, they have been privileged to visit several other countries represented by churches in the District: Tonga, Samoa, Ukraine & Russia.  And they have been guest teachers of English at Evangel Bible College in Myanmar (Burma) on four different occasions.Dennis and Lynda have developed a love for people of other cultures, and believe that God has sovereignly placed them in the position of Director of Intercultural Ministries for Northern-California-Nevada District.Support the showThanks for listening in! You can always learn more about Tim and Encompass Life Coaching at www.encompasslifecoaching.comLet' have a conversation! For coaching inquiries, schedule a call with Tim HERE