BGU graduates are serving in public and pastoral roles in Wuhan, Milan, Paris and other cities that have early experiences with the coronavirus. Some members of the BGU family have already been serving as SHALOM leaders in this COVID-19 pandemic for over two months. Yet now, almost all the BGU global family are directly affected. There are many of us who are scared, yet called to be brave. There are many of us confused, but called to provide direction. There are many of us who hurt, but called to be healers and comforters. We seek to rely … [Read more...]
BGU Prayers in the Current Global Crisis
Financial Update – End of the Year 2019
Please celebrate with us that God stirred the hearts of board members, students, faculty, alumni, staff, friends and other donors to meet the matching gifts that were provided last October and November. BGU is grateful to God for His generosity and the way He creates generosity in each of us for our money, heart, time, work, and gifts to display His goodness. … [Read more...]
President’s Note – January 2020
Anytime we use a map app on our telephone, it takes at least three global positioning satellites for the phone to find and display where we are, where we want to go, and the route to get there. The irony is that we cannot find our way unless we are viewed from at least three different positions that are not where we currently are. The further away those three positions are from us and from each other the more accurately the map can locate us. BGU has discovered the same principle applies for finding our way in our spiritual and educational … [Read more...]
Why I take the Nairobi Immersion Course?
My name is Clifford Kuyokwa, I am from Malawi in Central Africa. I study at the Doctor of Transformation Leadership program of Bakke Graduate University. As a student studying transformation leadership at doctoral level, I have a high interest in joining my fellow students of the City and Global Transformation Urban Immersion in Nairobi, Kenya May 1-10, 2020. This urban immersion course will expose me as a student to various transformational leadership principles and practices in an African global city. This immersion will also glean … [Read more...]
The World through African Eyes
The great scholar N.T Wright, describes a worldview a NOT a view of the world BUT a view through a world of the world. We live in the world of worldviews, in fact, Pope Francis was quoted as saying that the world is already in the middle of the 3rd world war and it is a war of world views. But, it must be said that most of the views of the world being promoted and experienced has been mostly a Western or in the words of Philip Jenkins a “Global North” inspired view of the world. There is a view of this global space that is hardly seen or … [Read more...]
