Registration opens on January 7, 2025

Welcome to the GFM National Staff Conference 2025 Webpage

As followers of Jesus, we steward all of life under his Lordship. Therefore, our study, research, and work become essential places to grow in and express our love for God and neighbor.​

 

Note from the Conference Planning Team

Dear GFM Colleagues,

The next GFM National Staff Conference will be held online Monday, March 24th through Thursday, March 27th, 2025. As we continue exploring the GFM Commitments, we will look together at: Integration of Faith, Learning, and Practice. The planning team crafted this definition to guide our time together:

As followers of Jesus, we steward all of life under his Lordship. Therefore, our study, research, and work become essential places to grow in and express our love for God and neighbor. 

We are excited to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Sung will be our keynote speaker, helping us to see how our commitment to this aspect of discipleship flows out of our formation in Christ. 

The following objectives will inform our experience together:

• Connect meaningfully with God and one another for learning and encouragement, particularly around our shared mission on campus
• Grow in our understanding of and response to God's gracious invitation to live integrated lives under the Lordship of Jesus
• Increase our confidence about faith-work integration with graduate students and faculty (what it is and how to do it)

In preparation for the conference, there will be a brief pre-course assignment. We will provide a digital copy of two chapters of Steven Garber’s A Seamless Life. He will be with us Wednesday evening, March 26, for an interview and Q&A. We suspect after reading these two short chapters you’ll want to read the entire book. Some of you may already have it, but if you don’t, now is a great time to get it. IVP is offering a significant discount (70%) through the end of the year to InterVarsity staff. We encourage you to consider ordering A Seamless Life using discount code IVCFSTAFFXMAS24 when placing your order.

Registration will open January 7, 2025. Please watch for an email with registration details.

We look forward to a good time of learning and engaging with God and one another!

 

— The GFM 2025 Staff Conference Planning Team

Conference Resources

Registration

Registration opens on January 7, 2025. Check back for registration details.

Pre-Course Assignment

Before the conference, you will receive a digital copy of two chapters of Steven Garber’s A Seamless Life. We encourage you to take advantage of the 70% staff discount with the code IVCFSTAFFXMAS24 to purchase the book from IVP.

Schedule

Download a printable copy of the schedule

Time (EDT)	Monday March 24	Tuesday March 25	Wednesday March 26	Thursday March 27
1:00 PM		Lisa Sung: Theological framework for integration	Models of Integration (Faculty Panel)	Models of Integration (Grad Student Panel)
2:00 PM	Opening Session
3:00 PM		Break	Break	Break
4:00 PM		Small Groups	Small Groups	Small Groups
5:00 PM		Seminars	Meet Ups	Seminars
8:00 PM			Steven Garber Interview and Q&A
9:00 PM

Speaker Details

Dr. Elizabeth Sung

Elizabeth (Lisa) Sung, Ph.D., is a systematic theologian and a spiritual director. She is Visiting Associate Professor in Theology at Regent College (Vancouver, Canada); Visiting Professor at Northeastern Seminary (Rochester, NY); Visiting Researcher at The University of Saint Mary of the Lake (Mundelein, IL); and Theologian-in-Residence at The InterVarsity Institute. In both academic and ministry contexts, she teaches theology to foster the lived reality of personal integrity and flourishing in Christ as the catalyst for missional living, in a framework that explicitly reconnects systematic theology to spiritual formation, moral transformation, and world service.
 

Steven Garber

Steven Garber has been a teacher of many people in many places, and was the founder of the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture, now also serving as the Senior Fellow for Vocation and the Common Good for the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, as well as Professor at-Large for the Economics of Mutuality, and for several years was the Professor of Marketplace Theology at Regent College, Vancouver BC. The author of several books, his most recent is The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work.