Go Week 2021
​September 20th-23rd

When?

Where?
Monday - Thursday, September 20th - 23rd, 2021
Bob Jones University

What?
Come interact with mission team leaders and participate in the various Center for Global Opportunity events throughout the week. In addition, be inspired by messages in chapel and workshops geared to build a passion for global missions.


Info below for GO Week 2021

Global Opportunities Week is more than a long-standing tradition at BJU. Go Week represents the very heart of BJU. Every student in every major is preparing to make disciples. Fulfilling the Great Commission is at the core of what it means to follow Jesus. Not every student will be or should be a vocational missionary, but all of us are called to use our vocations to make disciples. Go Week is not a ploy to urge you to change directions in life and abandon everything you have ever expected (although that may happen to some). It is an opportunity to envision how God can use your passions and the skills you are attaining to make His name known around the world. You will graduate from Bob Jones University as an elite ambassador for Christ. Well educated. Well discipled. Right worldview. Right priorities. Go Week seeks to expand your horizons for where and how you might deploy your gifts and fulfill your calling. Imagine the possibilities!
*only for those in the BJU Network

Schedule of Events


Monday:
11:00-11:35 – Chapel (FMA)
5:30-6:30 – Dinner in the Dining Common (Missions Representatives)
5:00 – 6:00 – Short Term Missions Expo (Gallery Green)
 
Tuesday:
7:00am – Come Pray with Us (RA Plaza)
9:00-10:00 – Breakfast/Welcome Meeting for Missions Representatives (Welcome Center/Levinson)
10:00-11:00 – Prayer Time with Missionary Guests (Levinson)
11:00-11:35 – Workshops (FMA, SH, LH, Lec A, Lec B, Sc 137, Sem 113)
11:45-7:00 – Displays (DC lobby)
7:00 – 8:00 – BJU Mission Team Interest Meetings (AL 1st floor)
 
Wednesday:
11:00-11:35 Chapel (FMA)
11:45-7:00 – Displays (DC lobby)
5:00-6:00 - ABWE International Medical Missions Panel (LH)
 
Thursday:
11:00-11:45 – Workshops (FMA, SH, LH, Lec A, Lec B, Sc 137, Sem 113)
11:45-7:00 – Displays (DC lobby)
7:00 – Piedmont Women Center’s Night for Life (FMA)

GOW Workshops

Workshops: 
  • Medical Missions for Church Planting – Tom Kendall (FMA)
This workshop will explore how medical missions facilitates church planting to accomplish the task of making disciples as Jesus commanded us. Learn how medical ministry not only serves as a natural platform for evangelism and discipleship through a holistic ministry approach, but also furthers the reach and success of non-medical missionary church planting endeavors."​
  • Accessing Restricted People Groups Through Medical Mission Teams  - Jack Mitchell (SC 137)
Estimates are that there are still nearly 3 billion unreached peoples in our world. Reaching these people with the gospel presents many challenges and often requires creative efforts. Medical mission initiatives often can be used to gain access to regions of the world typically closed to traditional mission outreaches. Through medical missions, the love of Christ is tangibly demonstrated and boldly preached.
  • Update on Hope Christian Center (Ivory Coast) – Bernard Kadio (SH)
Last year’s Bible Conference offering was spectacular. Students rallied together make a difference for disadvantaged people in the West African nation of Ivory Coast. Dr. Bernard Kadio will give an update on the progress of Hope Christian Center and explain how your investment is serving others.
  • The Business of Medical Missions – Annette Williams (Lec A)
Effective business administration facilitates the work of missionary healthcare professionals by allowing them to focus on their primary ministry to patients. This workshop will explore how those who have training in financial and resource management, operational leadership and, yes, even marketing, impact the day to day functioning and gospel outreach in medical missions.
  • Medical Missions and Education – Ron Washer (Lec B)
Medical missions involves missionary families with missionary children. From serving in local Christian schools, to assisting with homeschooling, to teaching in missionary boarding schools, teaching ESL to local hospital staff, helping pastors learn English to take advantage of the many English tools available, assist in local Christian schools.  Opportunities abound for teachers to serve in missionary settings. Learn how missionary teachers enable medical missions.
  • Medical Missions – Not Just for Medical Professionals – Bradley Edmonson (Sem 113)
The Luke 9:2 Principle - Known for love, characterized by compassion, directed by the Gospel.  Sent different directions with different personalities and gifts but with the same mission. Can medical missions be effective, ethical, and evangelistic at the same time?  This is Gospel furtherance we all can participate in- without being the doctor.  This is Gospel furtherance we can appreciate- when done right.