Faith at Work conference

Over the last six months, God has opened our eyes to the great need of helping equip Romanian Christians to live out their faith in the workplace. After collaborating on a short article about church marketing (which you can access here), Cameron's good friend and co-author, Mircea, taught in Cameron's seminary class about how he lives out his faith in the office where he works. We posted a picture on Facebook of Mircea teaching, and several people from around Romania began emailing Cameron to ask if Mircea's talk was recorded somewhere or if they might get a copy of his notes. Obviously there was a strong interest in the topic. This got Cameron thinking about the need for another project on the topic.


In early May, Cameron contacted a missionary friend named Jeff who has mentioned for years that he is interested in this type of ministry. Cameron, Mircea, and Jeff then set out to interview seven Romanian Christian business people concerning how they live out their faith in the workplace and what the church might do to encourage them. They then spent a good chunk of the summer writing an article on the topic, titled "Vocational Witness in the Romanian Workplace: Realities and Responsibilities." Here is the link if you'd care to open and read that article.

Immediately following the final edits of "Vocational Witness," we began developing a workshop for Christian business people on this theme. At the moment, the guys (and their wives) have pretty much finished writing the curriculum and are now in the process of finding speakers and hammering out details. We are calling this "Faith at Work," and the idea is for the conference to be extremely practical (How do I work and live as a Christian on the job?) and encouraging (Is there anyone else out there who struggles with this stuff that I can connect with?). There will be three speakers and three small group breakout sessions to hash out how such concepts might look in their specific offices. The plan right now is to conduct two small beta tests of 12-15 participants: one in Bucharest in January and one in Timisoara in February. Lord willing, we will have a larger conference of 50+ people next summer.

Please pray for us as we prepare for these Faith at Work conferences (locations, dates, getting the word out, securing speakers and participants who will give good feedback, etc.). We are excited to see how God is moving in this area!