The world is facing so many unique leadership challenges related to the impact of the pandemic. BGU has been adjusting in significant ways, and one way that we responded was by forming a new class called Transformational Strategies for the Ice Age* that was taught during the July 2020 module. The course was successful at equipping leaders to change course during these trying times that we’re living through. 17 leaders from Ethiopia, Kenya, Jamaica, South Africa, Guatemala, Haiti, and the United States produced some incredible projects that … [Read more...]
January 2021 Ice Age Course
BGU was Zooming before Zoom was The Thing
BGU was Zooming before Zoom was The Thing: Now is Not A Time to Rest on One’s Laurels Many schools have been forced to use Zoom as a crisis strategy during COVID-19. BGU has been using Zoom and other video-conferencing technologies before Zoom as a central strategy for ten years. Zoom was essential to BGU’s mission to create cross-cultural learning environments before COVID. BGU students don’t just study ABOUT the world, they study WITH the world often with peers from 5 to 10 time zones in each of their classes. With 70% of BGU student … [Read more...]
Year End Giving within the BGU family
Would you stop for a minute and pray if God is leading you to provide a year-end donation to the BGU family? Thank you for taking the time to listen and explore if this is God’s leading for you. You can give at https://www.bgu.edu/giving/ or if you want to discuss your gift you can contact BGU’s President at brad.smith@bgu.edu to make a Zoom or phone appointment. The BGU family is a giving family. BGU is a lean organization with internationally distributed staff and faculty. Alumni often give to finance those students who follow them. 70% of … [Read more...]
Equipping Transformational Leaders in Innovative Ways
In a time of unique global challenges, BGU is responding by equipping transformational leaders in innovative ways. During the July 2020 module, 17 BGU leaders took a new course called Transformational Strategies for the Ice Age to help guide their organizations and cities through the uncharted waters of COVID-19. The outcomes of the course were incredible! BGU is also thinking through outside the box ideas to equip leaders through the preparation of an upcoming urban immersion course to Honduras in the April 2021 module. The possibilities are … [Read more...]
Speak Different; Be Different; Do Different. – President’s Note in June 2020
Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes 3: 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens (NIV). We are in a time or turmoil and God is neither surprised nor distraught by this. When our ancestors chose to eat the pomegranate in the garden, we set ourselves on this path. As Jesus-followers, we are citizens of a different kingdom yet still living in a rebellious world. Turmoil provides us an opportunity to speak out against the evil that formerly enslaved us and call others to freedom. Turmoil convicts of our own … [Read more...]
