Join us for our IMT Alumni and Friends New Year Social and Book Launch for Working Blessedly Forever, Vol 3 - The Spirituality of the Marketplace.
Details
Sat, Jan 17 from 1:30 - 3:00pm
West Point Grey Baptist Church
4509 West 11th Ave, Vancouver.
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Schedule
Featuring an introduction to the book by Dr. Paul Stevens, a short talk by Alvin Ung on his chapter “On Being an Active Contemplative”, light refreshments, and time for fellowship & connection.
Speaker
Alvin Ung is a leadership consultant, coach, and student of purpose-led leaders and teams in Asia.
As a consultant, Alvin helps leaders define their purpose to impact teams and organizations. He draws his experience from interviewing purpose-led leaders in Asia, facilitating retreats, and mentoring the next generation of top government officials. At Khazanah Nasional, the sovereign wealth fund of Malaysia, Alvin led a team of 20 CEOs and HR Heads to build a talent management program. He was a co-founder of Leaderonomics, an award-winning social enterprise in leadership development. In 2013, Alvin was a mentor at the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award program in Monte Carlo.
On the academic side, Alvin has been twice named as Fellow at Khazanah Nasional, where he studies leadership in Asia. His latest book, Together: Finding Purpose at the Intersection of Me+We, brings him to 10 Asian countries where he learns how 100+ leaders harness the power of purpose together. His other books include Taking Your Soul to Work and Barefoot Leadership. His writings have been published by the Associated Press, CNN, and BBC.
Alvin serves on the boards of Bakke Graduate University and Handshakes, a data analytics company. He obtained an M.A. in non-fiction writing at The Johns Hopkins University, and an M.C.S. from Regent. He has taught courses on leadership, spirituality, and creative writing at universities in North America and seminaries in Southeast Asia. In 2009, Alvin and his wife, Huey Fern, joined a few families in planting a church in Kuala Lumpur. They are storytellers at a children’s library and an elementary school.
About the Book
Work, whether from home, in cyberspace, or in a factory or office, occupies a major chunk of our time, energy, and soul. This book seeks to make sense of our work in the world through adapting the pithy statement of the Puritan William Perkins to define marketplace theology as the “science of working blessedly forever.” It is a science involving investigation, not just with the head (thought), but also with heart (prayer) and hand (practice). But it is a science of working. So the book investigates a theology of work undertaken in the light of God’s blessing and purpose. And our work is not just for this life but “forever,” since some of it could last into the new heaven and new earth where, guess what, Scripture says we will work as fully human and resurrected beings. Stevens gathers his lifetime of research and teaching into this book showing through biblical research and contemporary analysis the meaning of work and human enterprise. It could change your lifestyle, your workstyle, and your soul.
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