DBU offers master’s-level credit for participants at Epicenter conference_122004

December 17, 2004

Posted: 12/17/04

DBU offers master's-level credit for
participants at Epicenter conference

Dallas Baptist University is offering master's-level credit for participants in Epicenter, the Baptist General Convention of Texas' annual evangelism and missions conference.

DBU students in the Gary Cook Graduate School of Leadership and Christian Education can earn three hours of course credit for attending all Epicenter sessions, making reports and creating plans to implement ideas learned during the conference.

Students must enroll in the “Local Church on Mission” class and pay the standard DBU tuition. Matching grants for tuition assistance are available. Class assignments will be submitted online.

Bob Garrett, professor of missions in DBU's graduate school, said Epicenter provides a unique opportunity for students to interact with leaders on the cutting edge of ministry. DBU's class can help ministers apply what they learn at Epicenter to their congregations.

Epicenter features author Dallas Willard; Jeff Harris, pastor of Grace Point Church in San Antonio; Carol Davis, executive director of Global Spectrum; and Darrell Guder, Henry Winters Luce professor of missional and ecumenical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

The conference is free and is scheduled Jan. 28-29 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel near D/FW Airport. For more information on Epicenter, visit www.bgct.org/epicenter.

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