Mission still sends us into the world, shaping and invigorating all we do. In this session, our panel will explore new thresholds for microchurch mission, taking a closer look at the marketplace and the public square.
PANEL
Brian Sanders
As a social entrepreneur, Brian has helped to start hundreds of missional enterprises, including churches, nonprofits, and businesses all over the world. Most notably, Brian is the founder and former Executive Director of the Underground Network; an international coalition of mission-driven communities; creating ecosystems of faith, creativity, and empowered social enterprise. For the past couple of years, he has worked as a specialist in collective impact alliances for the National Christian Foundation. Specializing in systems theory, change management, and collective impact. He is currently the Market Leader for Tampa Bay’s COhatch, bringing his entrepreneurial spirit to the dynamic world of shared workspaces
Hugh Halter
Hugh Halter has been a leading missiologist and thought-leader within the contemporary missional church movement. He has authored 8 books, and speaks extensively around the world helping the church be less churchy. He just moved his family to the St Louis area and has started a Neo-trappist marketplace mission as an incubator for good works and uses this story to help Christians rethink calling and kingdom contribution.
Dotti Groover–Skipper
Dotti Groover–Skipper believes in dynamic living through servant leadership! Since graduating from the University of South Florida, she has facilitated expert programming to impact positive policy change in substance abuse, addiction, and sex trade and has helped develop numerous sustainable community coalitions. Her experience as an NFL Cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins 1978-1980, helped set the foundation for her life’s work. She is the founder of HeartDance Foundation, which serves men, women, and children engaged in the sex industry. Groover-Skipper is an ordained elder and missionary who has operated at the national level to mobilize and train clergy, faith communities, businesses, school districts and organizations to engage in issues of addiction, sex trade and justice.
Bryan Long
Bryan Long is the founding steward of Pack, a platform that focuses on creating Kingdom impact by helping Christian business owners partner better with each other to create good value. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Singapore University of Social Sciences helping their startups get to product-market fit. He is also appointed as a Fellow at the Centre for Social Enterprises, raiSE, mentoring social enterprises in their digital transformation. He is a certified expert in platform design and distributed marketplace growth and has helped close to a thousand startup teams test and launch their ideas. He is currently completing his Doctorate in Transformational Leadership where he is applying koinonia biblical principles into the design of business alliances. He lives in Singapore with his wife and three children.
