Vancouver Project Contempo Forum 2008:
Integrity @ Work – Finding Your Ethical GPS in a Post-Enron World
Keynote Speaker : David C. Bentall
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008
Time: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Registration starts at 12:30 p.m.)
Place: VCAC – Fraser Lands Site
Address: 3330 S.E. Marine Drive, Vancouver
Cost: $15.00 (includes refreshments)
Online registration at www.projectcontempo.ca (after Oct. 5, 2008) or call City In Focus office at 604-687-7292
Co-Sponsored by: Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Ambassadors for Christ in Canada, City In Focus, and Chinese Christian Business & Professional Association
Project Contempo is an outreach mainly to the younger generation professional and career people in our churches – challenging them to connect their faith with their work and career. However, everyone, young and old, are welcomed to be part of the Forum. In fact, we encourage the older generation to impart their Godly wisdom and knowledge to the younger generation and network with them.
"Integrity @ Work – Finding Your GPS in a Post-Enron World” is the theme for the upcoming Contempo Forum. The workplace can be seen as an ethical wilderness with mazes, bogs, and steep cliffs. How can one obtain and maintain his or her integrity when dealing with competing demands of our bosses, co-workers and customers? How do we respond to the marketplace and its ethical dilemmas?
For those in the marketplace, the struggle to maintain good ethics is faced every day. How well are we handling this struggle?
Just as a compass or GPS is needed to help us find directions in terms of our physical location, a moral GPS is needed to guide us in the ethical wilderness of our workplace. Without it, we are lost. But where do we find this GPS? We have all too few good resources for helping Christians in the marketplace relate their faith to their work, and to their integrity.
The Contempo Forum is a golden opportunity for everyone to gather to find support and learn from each other’s experiences, insights and challenges. We trust this Forum will help everyone to grow in understanding what it means to follow Christ in our everyday life, and not just on Sundays.
Our keynote speaker will be David C. Bentall . He will share about the ethical dilemmas that he faced when he worked in his family business and how he handled them.
This year we have also included a panel discussion with a number of leaders from various fields (healthcare, technology, arts & humanities, business and education) to answer any questions you may have related to this year’s theme. At the end of the formal sessions, there will be a time for networking with other Christian professionals and career people, so bring your business cards!
Forum Schedule
12:30 – 1:00 pm Registration
1:00 p.m. Welcome & Opening Prayer
1:15 – 1:30 pm Praise & Singing
1:30 – 2:30 pm Keynote Message - David Bentall
2:45 – 3:45 pm Small groups/Career Track discussions
4:00 – 5:00 pm Panel Discussion - Q & A
5:00 pm Refreshments & Networking
More information about Project Contempo can be found
at the following website: www.projectcontempo.ca
