Year-Round Mentoring Group for Academic Leaders
With Dr. Charles White and Dr. Daryl McCarthy
We aim to mentor Christian academics with foundational knowledge, encouragement, relationships, and training to enable them to effectively serve Christ in higher education.
What Past Participants Say About the Mentoring
“Firstly, and most important, it re-centers me to the most important things of Glorifying God and seeking his will... enabling me to bring fresh vision and energy to my ministry. Also, it brings boldness for ministry and witness, building identity, value, and purpose as Christian scholars, and, so important! connection and relation. It helps specifically in providing a model for encouraging other Christian students and/or scholars to develop a Christian mind in their work, which is part of me and my husband’s ministry, and a perspective development of our work for the Kingdom. Multiplied blessings and THANK YOU for the faithfulness to the Call! I’ve been strongly blessed and pray to be a blessing, accordingly!”
“It is helping me to recognize that this is an avenue of ministry which I should pursue and embrace as we move to serve in Vietnam. It is giving me the opportunity to learn from a variety of different people that I otherwise would not have met. It is simultaneously helping me to set realistic expectations and also be ambitious for the gospel among the students who I will teach in the future. ”
Programme Overview
Goals
Establish a spiritual context for academic study
Develop the critical thinking skills necessary for successful academic work
Think through various apologetics issues
Participants
Ten to twelve Christian academicians who are willing to commit to be part of a learning community for one year.
Qualifications
All participants will be actively involved in higher education, either in teaching, research, or administration, and be spiritually mature Christians. Participants should have completed at least one post-graduate degree and preferably finished or are working on their doctorate.
Plan
A Pre-Forum seminar in Wisla, Poland on Saturday, May 21, 2022, from 14:00-17:30;
four two-hour webinars with webinar assignments;
a three-day retreat in Athens, January 11-14, 2023;
and a Pre-Forum Conference at the 2023 Forum in Wisla on May 19-20, 2023.
YRM Leader
Dr. Charles White is Professor of Christian Thought & History at Spring Arbor University in Michigan, USA. He is the director of the European Leadership Forum’s Year-Round Mentoring for Academics. He graduated from Harvard with his bachelor’s degree and his M.Div. at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He began a PhD in church history at read more>>
Application Process
To apply:
Thoroughly review the curriculum.
Complete the online application.
Ask a pastor or spiritual mentor to complete a reference on your behalf.
Ask a professor or academic advisor to submit an academic reference for you
All applications will be reviewed. We will notify you whether or not you have been accepted as a participant in the 2022-23 programme within four to six weeks.
If you have questions, contact us at initiatives@euroleadership.org.