Mar
18
Spiritual Gifts Seminar
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What am I gifted to do? What do I love to do? What natural talents and skills do I have? Where does my personality best suit me to serve? Am I in the right career?
Do you feel like you are using the gifts that God has given you to their fullest potential to glorify Him and serve others?
God empowers each of us with at least one spiritual gift. Join Nancy Ortberg for a morning of discovering how God has gifted you and how your skills, personality and unique experiences can best be used for His glory in ministry, your career, and your personal relationships.
Lunch will be provided during the workshop.
Nancy Ortberg
Nancy Ortberg served as a Teaching Pastor for 8 years at Willow Creek Community Church in So. Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led the Network ministry, helping people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of service in the church. She also led Axis, for the 18-20 something generation.
Axis included weekend services of 1200-1500 people in their 20’s who worshipped together, served the poor and participated in small group communities. Nancy is a founding partner of Teamworx2, a consulting firm that works with organizations, helping leaders overcome the team dysfunctions that are obstacles to high performance and work enjoyment. She and her husband John live in the Bay Area and have three children, Laura, Mallory, and John.
Mar
18
Ken Eldred
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Ken Eldred
Founder, Ariba Technologies, InMac, MySoftware Co, and Norm Thompson Outfitters
Founder and CEO, Living Stones Foundation
Ken Eldred has founded many successful companies including Ariba Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARBA), the leader in the internet Business-to-Business industry, which reached a market valuation of $40 Billion. He was Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Inmac, which went public in 1987 and grew to $400 million in annual revenues as the first business to sell computer products, supplies, and accessories by direct mail and which later merged with MicroWarehouse.
Mr. Eldred also helped found and is on the board of advisors at Crosspoint Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm in the United States (Ariba, Brocade, Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, among others), which has a capital base greater than $1 billion. He has founded several other companies, including Mysoftware Co. and Norm Thompson Outfitters, Inc., a direct mail, consumer specialty retailer. In 1988 he was named Retail Entrepreneur of the Year for the San Francisco Bay Area by the Institute of American Entrepreneurs. He currently serves as Chairman of Parakletos @ Ventures, a Venture Capital firm focused on investing in telecommunications infrastructure and business-to-business services in the US and Asia.
Mr. Eldred currently focuses primarily on charitable projects and providing services to Christian organizations as a board member or as independent advisor. He is the Founder and CEO of Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust, a public support organization with approximately $100 million in assets for the purposes of supporting Christian work and charity around the world. He is also an elder at Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, the world’s largest church led by Pastor David Yonggi Cho with over 880,000 members.
He is Chairman of the Kingdom Business Forum and a ministry partner along with Louis Palau Evangelical Association. Mr. Eldred is a visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Ten years ago he started and still leads a weekly Bible study for business leaders in Silicon Valley. Mr. Eldred is formerly a board member of The Sentinel Group; an international Christian ministry based in the US and has also served on the Board of Trustees for Regent University, where he served on the Executive Committee.
Ken Eldred was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area of California. He graduated from Stanford University in California with an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Masters in Business Administration. He also has a doctorates degree in law from Belhaven University.
Mr.Eldred, 60 and his wife Roberta have three sons and divide their time between their home in Silicon Valley, California, and their ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He enjoys horseback riding, hunting, water skiing and snow skiing.