With so many travel restrictions around the world, BGU’s signature urban immersion courses have been significantly impacted in 2020. Just like so many other institutions, BGU has had to pivot by adjusting urban immersion dates and through seeking out new ways to innovatively deliver the world class leadership training that we offer. I am actually very excited about the urban immersion opportunities that we’re planning to offer in 2021. We are hoping and praying that global travel will begin to open up in this coming year. We’ll continue to … [Read more...]
2021 BGU Urban Immersions
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 Matching Grant: Your Giving to BGU Empowers Global Generosity
Donations provided to BGU this month will be matched by the BGU Board of Directors up to $40K. Each year, BGU receives donations of all sizes from six continents. Please visit Giving - Bakke Graduate University for more information. Too often we see certain regions of the world always giving money and other regions always receiving money. These entrenched patterns create unhealthy dependent mindsets that rob the perpetual receivers of the joy of giving. As a result, often the money that is generously given to energize the gospel instead … [Read more...]
Integral Mission – President’s Note in November 2020
The poor in spirit are rich. They experience God’s presence, on earth, right now, every day. They already taste heaven every minute. Their lives are not defined by divisions of self-will and God’s will; fear and security; loneliness and community; confusion and knowledge; sacred and secular. They experience life as a whole … true integrity. Integral life. Integral mission. In Matthew 5:3, Jesus states, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” In verse 3 and 10 Jesus promises the kingdom of heaven in the present … [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...]
