Every Somewhere Sacred: Rescuing a Theology of Place
2025-07-01 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
Our identity as followers of Jesus can and should transform how we live in the physical world. We need a far more expansive Christian imagination for land and place. Common American narratives that reduce land to commodity, or irrelevant background miss the consistent emphasis in the biblical story that God created and cares for land and place. We should grapple with complicated American histories of land and Indigenous people, race and social class, and reapproach Biblical themes of land as home, gift, sacrament, and kin to help prompt Christian groups and individuals to work toward a Christian vision of land mattering in the past, present, and future. We can recover Christian practices for living faithfully as members of our human geographies. And perhaps most importantly, we can receive the world itself as the gift it was intended to be.
My dissertation (PhD – Azusa Pacific University) explores how people learn and grow and how educational sectors become ideological battlegrounds, using a regional study of Palestinian colleges and universities in the occupied West Bank.
Director of the Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East and author of upcoming book Every Somewhere Sacred: Rescuing a Theology of Place in the American Imagination.

Esri User Conference Lunch
2025-07-14 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Convention Center, 111 Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
For those of you attending the Esri User Conference July 14 – 18, we are meeting during lunch time, Monday, July 14 at 12:30 PM. We will meet in Room 27 A.
We aren’t able to provide lunch so you will need to make plans to bring your own food.
We have had this meeting at many User Conferences in past years.
It has been a great opportunity to meet others in the group face to face.
If you are able to be at the conference, hope you can make it.

THE AI JOURNEY AT MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP
2026-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
In the past six months a subset of the MAF IT team has been looking into the ways that AI can be used to facilitate MAF’s work across the world. The talk will explore some of the things that the group has come up with and demonstrate how the MAF GIS team is currently using AI for application support and creation.
In the early part of his career Frank was the GIS Manager for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. Frank joined Innovate Inc. in 2011 and coordinated a very talented group of solution architects and geospatial programmers as IT Director. His team primarily crafts mobile and web-based geospatial solutions for clients throughout the USA. In October 2024, Frank stepped down from his role at Innovate, and started his work at MAF as their Global Data Architect. In addition to his work at MAF, he has spent the last year as a fractionated CTO for two different start-ups (GeoTrace Systems and Vacation Clean).
When Frank isn’t thinking about technology, he fills his time by making music with his wife and taking his children and grandchildren fishing as much as possible.
