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Bishop Jakes - Google Hangout on Leadership - The Potter’s House of Dallas (64k) · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: To welcome you to a Google Hangout opportunity to join
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of my esteemed guests in discussing a very
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  Speaker 1: exciting program that we have available for you. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you some more about it in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. But let's start from Dr. Campo, and I
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  Speaker 1: want each one of you to introduce yourselves, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll come back around and talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: this exciting news we have just for you.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Carlos Campo, the president of Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, everyone.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Julianne Sinek, and I serve as Assistant Vice President
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  Speaker 5: for Professional and Continuing Education at Regent University.
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  Speaker 6: Seth?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, everyone.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Seth Stone.
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  Speaker 7: I serve as the Program Manager for Professional Development at
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  Speaker 7: Regent University Professional and Continuing Education.
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  Speaker 6: And Zinoran? Hello, everyone.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Zinoran Holmes, and I'm over at Business Development for
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  Speaker 8: TDJ Enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: And I am T.D. Jakes, the founder of T.D. Jakes Enterprise,
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  Speaker 1: the pastor of the Potter's House. And you might be
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  Speaker 1: wondering in your mind, what in the world does the
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  Speaker 1: president of a university and such an esteemed group of
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  Speaker 1: people and colleagues have to do with a pastor? And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're going to clarify for you today. We
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  Speaker 1: are really, really excited about a very unique and dynamic
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  Speaker 1: opportunity that I think has been afforded us that we
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  Speaker 1: want to extend to you and tell you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more information about it. It is the TD Jakes
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  Speaker 1: School of Leadership. That's right, TD Jakes School of Leadership.
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  Speaker 1: And its accreditation and support is coming from none other
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  Speaker 1: than Regents University. Together, we have formed a team so
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  Speaker 1: that we might facilitate opportunities for people who want to
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  Speaker 1: sharpen their skills, who want to go back to school,
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  Speaker 1: who want to develop leadership abilities for the 21st century
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  Speaker 1: and tool what they have, in many cases, reposition themselves
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  Speaker 1: to make themselves more marketable, to make themselves more effective
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  Speaker 1: in the positions that they hold, just to be able
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  Speaker 1: to become greater leaders, whether they're a leader than church
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  Speaker 1: or a leader than business or a leader than life.
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  Speaker 1: There are some tools and some tips that collectively we
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  Speaker 1: can share with you that can kind of lessen that
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  Speaker 1: learning curve and get you ready and get you prepared
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  Speaker 1: so that you can bring your best self to the
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  Speaker 1: table all the time and hone your skills so that
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  Speaker 1: you can be more marketable. Dr. Campbell, when we start
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  Speaker 1: talking about this opportunity and this online opportunity, what are
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  Speaker 1: some of the benefits that people might consider in online education?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think there are two things that come to mind.
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  Speaker 3: One is this idea of lifelong learning. As you just said, Mr. Jakes,
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  Speaker 3: we're living in a day where education doesn't stop with
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  Speaker 3: your last degree.
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  Speaker 2: It continues.
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  Speaker 3: And leadership is one of those skill sets that applies
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  Speaker 3: across the board.
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  Speaker 2: Whether you're working as an engineer, you could be a homemaker.
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  Speaker 3: Leadership is one of those things that will impact your
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  Speaker 3: life and improve your life overall. So the online opportunity
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  Speaker 3: gives you the flexibility to be self-paced, to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do it on your own terms in an asynchronous environment,
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  Speaker 3: this idea that you can be learning at any time online.
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  Speaker 2: That fits your schedule.
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  Speaker 3: So I think those are some of the things that
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  Speaker 3: come to mind that make this partnership so exciting.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'm very, very excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's very, very important that you continue to
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  Speaker 1: sharpen your skill to make yourself as marketable as possible,
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  Speaker 1: as effective as possible, as useful as possible. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I think that really people don't realize,
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  Speaker 1: it is possible to have a degree or have a
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  Speaker 1: position and have an opportunity and be skilled in that
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  Speaker 1: particular field.
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  Speaker 6: Area that you work in, but not be skilled as
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  Speaker 6: a leader.
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  Speaker 1: You can be competent intellectually and still lack the leadership
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  Speaker 1: skills that you need in order to really take charge
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  Speaker 1: and cause people to follow you. Julianna, what kind of
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  Speaker 1: skills do you think we can present to those people
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  Speaker 1: that would help them to really take what they have
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  Speaker 1: learned perhaps throughout life or other courses and hone them
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  Speaker 1: to become more effective as leaders?
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  Speaker 5: What a great question. I mean, for both of us
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  Speaker 5: as organizations, thinking about what Regent does so well and
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  Speaker 5: what you do so well, Bishop, is training leaders.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we do.
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  Speaker 5: And so we've decided to integrate that mission within every
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  Speaker 5: course that we are offering, particularly our certificate programs that
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  Speaker 5: we're offering. And so the instructors are going to be
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  Speaker 5: very purposeful about directing and guiding the students that are
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  Speaker 5: participating in these courses to not only learn the application
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  Speaker 5: and the real skills, but to actually apply them into
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  Speaker 5: real world situations and to think like leaders, those critical
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  Speaker 5: thinking skills and problem solving skills. And to think like
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  Speaker 5: leaders so that when they come through and matriculate through
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  Speaker 5: the program, they're actually well equipped to be Christian leaders
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  Speaker 5: to change the world.
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  Speaker 6: Can we talk a little bit more?
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  Speaker 1: Can you go a little bit deeper into the certificate
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  Speaker 1: program so that they can understand what is being offered?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: We have at least 12 certificate programs being offered through
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  Speaker 5: the TD Jakes School of Leadership powered by Regent. And
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  Speaker 5: those programs range from project management, entrepreneurship. We've also got
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  Speaker 5: courses like digital media. And we've chosen these particular certificate
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  Speaker 5: programs because the market research is showing that these are
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  Speaker 5: the areas that are most in demand and the individuals
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  Speaker 5: are in need to hone these skills. and to further
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  Speaker 5: develop themselves professionally. And so these programs are affordable.
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  Speaker 4: They're accessible.
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  Speaker 5: They're online. You can certainly be a working professional and
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  Speaker 5: still be able to take these programs successfully. But you're
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  Speaker 5: also going to be in courses with colleagues that are
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  Speaker 5: also professionals and leaders. So it's a great way to
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  Speaker 5: also network.
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  Speaker 1: Seth, when you start talking about programs like this, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times people are intimidated. First of all, there
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  Speaker 1: are some people who are even intimidated by computers in general.
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  Speaker 1: How user-friendly are these programs designed to be and how functional?
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  Speaker 6: Any time of day, anywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Or is there some reservation that people should have about
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  Speaker 1: these types of programs?
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  Speaker 7: No, we really designed this to be an incredibly user-friendly experience.
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  Speaker 7: Our goal is to deliver excellence and the student experience
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  Speaker 7: comes first and foremost. So we're putting ourselves in their shoes.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of us have a tremendous amount of experience,
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  Speaker 7: both administratively and as students in an online learning environment.
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  Speaker 7: We've seen what works. We've seen what does not work.
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  Speaker 7: Regent University has been a pioneer in the online learning
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  Speaker 7: space going back into the 1990s even.
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  Speaker 6: So it's something that.
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  Speaker 2: We do extremely well.
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  Speaker 4: It's very convenient.
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  Speaker 7: We set it up so that students can be on
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  Speaker 7: there 24-7, any time of the day they would like
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  Speaker 7: to be. We're able to enroll students all around the
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  Speaker 7: world because they have that level of connectivity. And it's
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  Speaker 7: just such an amazing thing to see when you have
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  Speaker 7: students from Africa, the United States, Asia. all working together
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  Speaker 7: as members of a class, sharing experiences and adding value
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  Speaker 7: to each other's lives over this integrated online platform.
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  Speaker 4: It's just really.
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  Speaker 6: Wonderful to see.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of a unique advantage because you do
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  Speaker 1: get some sort of support from other students and you're
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  Speaker 1: not only learning from the program and the instructor, but
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  Speaker 1: also the degree of learning that happens through the cross-pollinization
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  Speaker 1: of ideas between these various students.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Part of the learning process that goes along with the
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  Speaker 7: lifelong learning that Dr. Campo and Julianne were talking about
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  Speaker 7: is people bringing their life experiences and sharing that in
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  Speaker 7: addition to this training.
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  Speaker 4: There's there's such an increased value add there. And we
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  Speaker 4: want to make it as easy as possible for.
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  Speaker 7: These people to connect and participate in this opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get with you for just a moment and
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  Speaker 1: talk about I know that you realize that I've been
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  Speaker 1: teaching leadership conferences and bringing some of the best of
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  Speaker 1: the best together for thousands and thousands of people have
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  Speaker 1: come for years and years and years. Can you talk
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  Speaker 1: about what people who are taking these programs, how they
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  Speaker 1: can combine the strengths of what we do through Project
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  Speaker 1: Gideon and what we're doing through our leadership conferences and
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  Speaker 1: how this marries together to become a perfect union for
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  Speaker 1: students who really want an opportunity to go further?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: Bishop Diggs, as you said, you've been bringing leaders together
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  Speaker 8: for years, but this is another element.
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  Speaker 4: That's added to it that goes along with the lifelong learning.
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  Speaker 8: So they can get their practical teachings that you have
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  Speaker 8: through their ministry and through your leadership conferences. But now
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  Speaker 8: that we're partnering with the region through the TDJ School
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  Speaker 8: of Leadership, we can begin to expand as well.
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  Speaker 4: So now they take the things that they learn from
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  Speaker 4: you Apply them to the.
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  Speaker 8: Skill sets that they have in the workforce and to
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  Speaker 8: prepare as leaders. And then they can go further as well.
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  Speaker 8: So when you look at Project Gideon for pastors and
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  Speaker 8: leaders under the age of 40, there are things that
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  Speaker 8: they need to learn from the spiritual side. But there's
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  Speaker 8: also things that they need to learn from the practical
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  Speaker 8: side as well. So when you're looking at starting a project,
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  Speaker 8: it would be great to have a certificate in project
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  Speaker 8: management so that you can effectively execute what God has
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  Speaker 8: called you to do. In addition, when you have the
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  Speaker 8: other conference that we have for pastors and leaders over
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  Speaker 8: the age of 40, the Episcopal experience, pastors and leaders
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  Speaker 8: looking forward, where do I need to go from here?
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  Speaker 8: How do I prepare my leaders behind me? Well, these
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  Speaker 8: certificate programs are structured for that so that they can
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  Speaker 8: prepare them in another practical way so that the organization
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  Speaker 8: of the ministry can continue forward as well as the
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  Speaker 8: organism of recruitment can move forward as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm excited about it because I think it
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  Speaker 1: is the best of both worlds. For years, I've seen
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  Speaker 1: universities have academics and professors to train people in a
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  Speaker 1: particular subject or course, but then the application of that
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  Speaker 1: training into practical hands-on information, sometimes the person who was
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  Speaker 1: instructing you to do it had never done it themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And there are some things that you only learn when
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  Speaker 1: you really put your hands on the wheel and begin
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  Speaker 1: to lead yourself just organically from the experience. And so
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  Speaker 1: I've really tried to fill in that gap with providing practical,
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  Speaker 1: pragmatic leadership skills for people who've been on ground level
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  Speaker 1: zero exactly how to do it. You can learn why
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  Speaker 1: to do it at school and where to get the
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  Speaker 1: information from. But exactly how to implement that information in
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  Speaker 1: a very practical and pragmatic way has been a very
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  Speaker 1: important part of leadership. And you really have to realize
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  Speaker 1: either you're going to be a leader and a trendsetter
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  Speaker 1: or you're going to be destined to follow other people's leadership.
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  Speaker 1: And if you suspect that you might have leadership down
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  Speaker 1: inside of you, that somewhere down inside of you, there
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  Speaker 1: is a bugle blowing to charge at life and to
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  Speaker 1: overcome obstacles and to reach your goals and to really
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  Speaker 1: make a difference in.
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  Speaker 6: The world in a powerful way.
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  Speaker 1: This is an opportunity not to end up with just
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  Speaker 1: a position for which you don't have the credentials and
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  Speaker 1: the background and the wherewithal or even the tools or
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  Speaker 1: skill set to affect But this is to kind of
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  Speaker 1: put some substance up under it and some practicality up
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  Speaker 1: under it, both from an academic perspective as well as
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  Speaker 1: an experiential perspective, so that you can be a leader
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  Speaker 1: that can really meet the challenge. Dr. Halpole, when we
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  Speaker 1: start talking about this sort of thing, In the academic world,
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  Speaker 1: is there a trend toward online learning as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: people going on campus? I mean, is this a fluke
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  Speaker 1: or is it something that people tend to be gravitating
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  Speaker 1: to more and more?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think it's quite clear that this is a
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  Speaker 3: fluke the way the automobile was a fluke to the
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  Speaker 3: horse and buggy. So I think it's good. Online learning
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  Speaker 3: is here to stay. Not to say it's going to
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  Speaker 3: completely eliminate the need for face-to-face or traditional learning.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Bishop Jenks, the whole idea of what we thought about
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  Speaker 3: the traditional student has been obliterated because of online learning.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, there are more students studying who are not
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  Speaker 3: in that 18 to 24-year-old timeframe. So most of us are,
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  Speaker 3: you know, 32 and over. The average student age online
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  Speaker 3: is about 45 years old. So what we're finding is
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  Speaker 3: that these are folks who understand that learning at their
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  Speaker 3: own pace isn't watered down. One of the things that
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  Speaker 3: you hinted out earlier was we've all been in classrooms
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  Speaker 3: where it's a conversation between a faculty member and one
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  Speaker 3: or two other people in the class. And everybody else
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  Speaker 3: is either tweeting or they're playing solitaire.
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  Speaker 2: But in an online class, you cannot hide. And if
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  Speaker 2: you want to hide.
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  Speaker 3: From a cultural perspective or you may have an embarrassment
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  Speaker 3: in a traditional classroom in an online environment, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have that same barrier. So I think it really is
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  Speaker 3: the best of both worlds from that perspective. But it
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  Speaker 3: does demand some discipline. So I think that's one of
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  Speaker 3: the things that students should realize going in early. You're
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  Speaker 3: looking at classes that are designed to be user friendly.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to have a problem with the technology.
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  Speaker 3: but you'd better set some time aside, especially early on
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  Speaker 3: as you transition and really dig into these classes. You know,
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  Speaker 3: as you pointed out, leadership is both caught and taught
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  Speaker 3: and your own ministry is a reflection of that. And
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  Speaker 3: the fact that we have academics standing side by side
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  Speaker 3: with people in ministry is to me, one of the
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  Speaker 3: most exciting things about this partnership. For too long, the
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  Speaker 3: church and academia have in some ways pushed each other away,
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  Speaker 3: even intentionally. And this is a very intentional attempt to say,
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  Speaker 3: We need to do this hand in hand because to
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  Speaker 3: be more effective for God's kingdom, we need both.
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  Speaker 2: It's not either or, it's both and.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, you raise a very interesting perspective.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that I think is very,
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  Speaker 1: very important and exciting about the trends toward people as
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  Speaker 1: they are 25 and older going back to school. I
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  Speaker 1: know I got to a certain stage in my life
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, wow, when I was in school, I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really taking it seriously. I was trying to see
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  Speaker 1: who was cute in the classroom and all that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing. But as you mature and you get out
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  Speaker 1: in life and you see how important it is to
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  Speaker 1: have skills, that maturity will cause you to go back
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  Speaker 1: and really appreciate an academic experience. And that's why I
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  Speaker 1: think it's important that we take the handcuffs off the
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  Speaker 1: idea that, you know, this is just for people 18
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  Speaker 1: to 25, when in fact, you may be 30, you
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  Speaker 1: may be 35, you may be 40, you may be
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  Speaker 1: 50 and say, wait a minute, I'm now at a
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  Speaker 1: point in my life where I am mature enough and
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  Speaker 1: focused enough to get this done. But Dr. Campo, when
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  Speaker 1: you start talking about discipline, Does that mean that I
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  Speaker 1: understand that there's nobody there to make you log on
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  Speaker 1: and take the class?
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  Speaker 6: That's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the benefits is you can take the
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  Speaker 1: class around your schedule when the kids go to bed,
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  Speaker 1: when you've done this or that or the other or
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning or however fits your need.
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  Speaker 6: You can kind of tailor make this to fit your
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  Speaker 6: own need. Isn't that right?
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  Speaker 2: No question.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, it's one of the reasons
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  Speaker 3: we've seen such an increase in In terms of military
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  Speaker 3: and other spouses, and this is male and female spouses,
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  Speaker 3: many of whom would not have the opportunity because of
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  Speaker 3: their life situation to walk into a traditional classroom. Even
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  Speaker 3: if that classroom is 10 minutes away, they can't make
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  Speaker 3: it happen because of their work situation, their life situation. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now online education allows that flexibility. I cannot tell you.
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  Speaker 3: We've met students all over the world that find this
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  Speaker 3: new community online, which is both spiritual and academic. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's one of the exciting things as well, because
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  Speaker 3: as a Christian institution, we are very interested in this
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  Speaker 3: idea of spiritual development. We know it happens even in
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  Speaker 3: the online environment and that these students feel the power
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  Speaker 3: of God. coming right through the computer screen. As students
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  Speaker 3: get together and minister to one another, beyond what they're learning,
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  Speaker 3: they're learning how to minister in a variety of contexts
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  Speaker 3: and feeling the very ministry of God. The students are
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  Speaker 3: getting together to pray and study. They're getting together to
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  Speaker 3: minister to one another and to learn leadership skills. So
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  Speaker 3: it really is a remarkable environment. And while there is
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  Speaker 3: no panacea, online learning literally meets you where you are.
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  Speaker 2: And will continue to push you and challenge you.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that makes me excited about it,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible said, I will restore unto you the years
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  Speaker 1: of the canker worm, the palmer worm, and the locust
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  Speaker 1: fate of. Maybe you got off track some sort of way,
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  Speaker 1: and you're reaching a point now that you really need
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit to restore those lost years and for
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  Speaker 1: you to catch up for lost time, lost vision, and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps even lost opportunities. To be able to pray and
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  Speaker 1: to have other people praying with you and have praying
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  Speaker 1: professors at the TDJ School of Leadership. When you get
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  Speaker 1: those kinds of opportunities to invite the Holy Spirit and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I need restoration. I need my mind refreshed.
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  Speaker 1: I need the courage to go back into this. And
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  Speaker 1: then you get in that program and you go after
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  Speaker 1: what God has for you. It's amazing how the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit will restore what you have. When we start looking
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  Speaker 1: at this program and we start looking at our leadership conference,
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  Speaker 1: we've done some preliminary talk talking about graduations and that
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing for those students who do online training
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  Speaker 1: and can come to the leadership conference. How will those
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: two things marry together?
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  Speaker 9: They marry together perfectly because What we're setting up is
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  Speaker 9: you can actually take the online certificate classes or the
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  Speaker 9: leadership institutes in particular, which is a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot more intense.
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  Speaker 8: And upon graduating with the Leadership Institute, we're setting it
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  Speaker 8: up so you'll be prepared to graduate within one of
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  Speaker 8: our leadership conferences.
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  Speaker 4: So we're marrying what you know online and.
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  Speaker 8: We're bringing you together with other leaders to graduate you.
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  Speaker 8: And even with our conferences, as you're coming as a participant,
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  Speaker 8: We're now able to set up where just your participation
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  Speaker 8: in our conference, you can receive a certificate, continuing education
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  Speaker 8: credits for the conference that you've gone through by the
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  Speaker 8: conferences that we've been on.
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  Speaker 4: So it's an amazing thing, bringing everything together, making the.
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  Speaker 8: Online experience marry with the live experience and really encouraging
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  Speaker 8: others as well.
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  Speaker 1: Julianne, when we look at the upcoming Megafest that we're
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to have, and I know Regence is going
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  Speaker 1: to have boots on the ground, we're excited about the
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  Speaker 1: partnership between the two of us. Can you talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about what those people who are coming to
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  Speaker 1: Megafest might experience should they take the time to stop
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  Speaker 1: by and see what we have?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, they're going to be in for a treat. We're
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: going to have an enormous booth. You can't miss us.
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  Speaker 5: It'll be the TD Jakes School of Leadership powered by
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  Speaker 5: Regent right there in the Expo Center Exhibit Hall. We
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  Speaker 5: will have a number of Regent University staff that will
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  Speaker 5: be there, as well as folks from Potter's House and
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  Speaker 5: TD Jakes Enterprises to assist you with registering for courses.
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  Speaker 5: You know, one of the things that we are aware
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  Speaker 5: of is that just as you touched on, there may
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  Speaker 5: be individuals who are coming that haven't been, you know,
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  Speaker 5: at a university in a long time. And maybe they're
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: reengaging back into the higher education space. And so we're
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  Speaker 5: going to be there to answer your questions. You'll be
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: able to register live right there. We'll have, I think,
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  Speaker 5: 20 to 25 laptops set up and you'll be able
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  Speaker 5: to register right there in the booth. Ask questions. get
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  Speaker 5: more information. It's going to be an amazing time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited about it. I can't wait to see it.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard great things about the setup that you all
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  Speaker 1: have prepared. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing all of the wonderful displays and opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for you to sit down and talk to somebody directly
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  Speaker 1: about what your goals are, what your objectives are, and
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  Speaker 1: kind of get a little bit of counseling, lose your intimidation,
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  Speaker 1: and sign up and take the course. that really meet
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  Speaker 1: your need. Seth, do I have to live in the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: in order to take this course? Is it available to
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  Speaker 1: people outside of the continental U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 7: This is open to anyone, anywhere around the world, no
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  Speaker 7: matter where you reside.
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  Speaker 4: If you can get online, you can participate in one
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  Speaker 4: of our programs.
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  Speaker 6: That's part of the beauty of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I run into
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  Speaker 1: all the time is that I have a huge following
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  Speaker 1: of people out of Australia, out of South Africa, out
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  Speaker 1: of Lagos, Nigeria. They can't always get to Megafest. They
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: can't always get to our leadership conference, but they can
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get to this experience. And when they get to it online,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: they can have access to the academic opportunities that they
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  Speaker 1: often find difficult to attain elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 7: There's, you know, and whenever we have lectures from our professors,
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  Speaker 7: those are live sessions, but they're also recorded and they're
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: placed in the online learning platform that we deliver our
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  Speaker 7: courses in. So as a student, even the lectures are
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  Speaker 7: on your time on demand and you move through the
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  Speaker 7: class at your pace.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to make a special appeal to
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  Speaker 1: pastors who might be watching this entire Google conversation that
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: we're having. We're hanging out here. Maybe the Holy Spirit
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: didn't just have you log on by accident. You may
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: really be anointed to preach. You may really have a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: passion for souls. But in today's climate, if you don't
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: have good leadership skills and sometimes good business skills, you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: kind of stop the growth of the church because the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: anointing itself is not enough. for doing business at the bank,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: negotiating contracts, for setting up human resources departments, for conducting
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: staff meetings. You may have a burning passion and came
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: down off the mountain with your eyes ablaze with glory,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: but that blaze goes out pretty quickly when you find
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  Speaker 1: that you need to have some other skills to support
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  Speaker 1: your call and anointing.
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  Speaker 6: Don't stifle the church or ignore the.
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  Speaker 1: Reality that you may really be called and really be anointed,
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  Speaker 1: but you need to go back and kind of strengthen
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  Speaker 1: your leadership skills so that you can really take the
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  Speaker 1: church to the.
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  Speaker 6: Same level as your anointing. Sometimes you're anointed to go.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Further, but if you don't have the leadership skills to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: go with it, sometimes it stunts that anointing and that
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: passion that you have for Christ.
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  Speaker 7: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Kemp, how many people, religious leaders, are you seeing making
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the turn back to the stall and saying, I need
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to strengthen myself so that I can have the same
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: academic and business skills.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Up under me as I have passion and anointing to
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: do the work of God?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's extraordinary.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: We've actually begun an entire church relations ministry in the
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: region just to meet that demand. Because as never before,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: we're seeing this whole idea of bringing all of your
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: heart and your head together in ministry and letting the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit enliven that. Talk about rivers of living water
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: flowing out of men and women across this country. So
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I think that's one of the things that we've been
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: absolutely astounded by is how ministry leaders are saying, you
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: know what, I need to take a sabbatical and I'm
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: going to step out and I'm going to make a
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: commitment to this. And what I say to parents and
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: students all over the country is this, when you're ready
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  Speaker 3: to learn, And God's spirit is on you. Just get
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  Speaker 3: out of their way because it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: remarkable situation. You know, a student who's not ready to
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: learn shouldn't be in a classroom. And one of the
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: things I love about online learning is these students are
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: not there because they're in some Greek society, which is
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: OK if that's what they want to do.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: They're not there for a sports team. They're here to learn.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: And what you're going to find in those classrooms is
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: they're very different from what you're going to remember from
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: your college days. These are students from all over the
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: world who are committed to learning. And you're going to
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: learn in a context that's really enriching.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm excited because all Addie says, when the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: student is ready, the teacher will appear. And I believe
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that this program has appeared because some of you are ready.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Your heart's cry is to go further in education and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: academics to strengthen what you've been called to do. And
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: maybe you're not a pastor, but maybe you want to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: support that ministry. We need CFOs and COOs and accountants
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: with CPAs.
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  Speaker 6: And who can really.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: get down to the brass tacks of leading the church
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: forward and making it relative and effective in the world today.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: But not only that, we also need people who understand
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: business so that we can have Christians in business, in politics,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: in retail, in wholesale development and distribution. Every echelon of life,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: we need to have people there of faith. And I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: think that people of faith best teach people of faith.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: You don't have to step over all of this atheistic
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: ideology in order to just eat the meat and throw
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: away the bones. You have a praying teacher coupled with
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a praying student so that together we can go before
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: God and say, Lord, open up for this woman and
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: open up for this young man. what he needs to
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: have to be able to form effective leadership skills and
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: do what God has called them to do. And together,
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  Speaker 1: I just believe that there's a way for you to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: get things on track, even if you've gotten off track. Julia,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: how important do you think it is to couple together
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: people of faith with people of faith?
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  Speaker 5: It's extremely important. It's what distinguishes us in this entire offering.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I had a chance to sit through a project management
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: certificate program course a week or so ago. And I
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: was not surprised, but I was amazed to see the
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: level of engagement with the instructor and the student. The
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: instructor was recognizing and acknowledging just that, that there is
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: a spiritual journey as well as an academic and a
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: professional journey that's taking place within these students. And we're
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: very big on that spiritual formation. And so to just
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: watch before our eyes, to see that professor pray, to
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: see them actually have a concern and care, not just
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: about their, again, their professional development, but about their spiritual
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  Speaker 5: development as well, really just made this all worthwhile. It's
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  Speaker 5: the reason we do what we do. And you can't
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: get that anywhere. It's what really distinguishes us.
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  Speaker 4: It's very important.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I am absolutely thrilled about this. I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: about it. And we've talked about it and you've entered
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: into a conversation about this exciting TD Jakes Leadership School
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of Leadership. And it's supported by Regents University to create
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a climate where for you to go back and take
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: back what the enemy stole or to strengthen yourself or
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to climb mountains and accomplish goals. And we're going to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: have a tremendous booth at Megafest where you can come
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: by and just sit back and talk with people and
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: really get hands-on opportunities to learn, sign up for the courses,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: talk about the courses. get information like that. But I
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: also know that there are some people, Z, that really
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: can't get to Megafest. How do they benefit from the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: conversation we had? If you heard this conversation right now
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and you want to become a student at TDJ School
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: of Leadership and you accept the challenge to sharpen yourself
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and bring your best self forward, what can they do
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: right now to access the information that we're sharing with them?
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Right now, they can go to the website, tdjakesleadership.com. We
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: have a website set up for you. It gives you
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: all of the information.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: It gives you the.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Purpose about what we're doing.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: It gives you the mission.
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  Speaker 10: You can see all of the courses coming up in
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: the fall that you can register today. As a matter
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: of fact, we have pre-registration happening right now where you
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: can register for $ 29 to hold your spot.
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  Speaker 6: Twenty nine dollars.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Twenty nine dollars to hold your spot. And then you
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: have until the class starts.
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: We start in September to finish the balance and you're
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: in because classes are filling quickly.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: So we wanted to make it affordable.
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  Speaker 6: We wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: Make it effective.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: For you as well.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: But it gives you all the information. We have a
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: resource tab on there. So go to TD Jakes leadership
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  Speaker 4: dot com.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: You have all the information. Listen, we want to hold
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  Speaker 6: you a spot. Don't let anybody take your spot. I
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: want to encourage you to log on. Go to the website.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Take a look around. See what intrigues you.
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  Speaker 1: And this unique partnership has been born between Regents University
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and TDJ to provide a learning opportunity for you to
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: climb over obstacles that may have imprisoned you. the creativity
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  Speaker 1: down inside of you so that you can maximize every
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: moment of your life. Dr. Campbell, before we close, don't
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  Speaker 1: you think that providing this type of skillset is indeed
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  Speaker 1: a form of ministry itself?
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  Speaker 2: There's no question that it is.
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  Speaker 3: I know that the research indicates exactly what you've been saying,
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  Speaker 3: and that is that the primary reason that for student success,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: beyond their preparation, beyond the academics, beyond the curriculum, is
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: that the instructor believes that that student can succeed. And
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: the instructors at Regent don't just believe that. They believe
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: that each of these students was created for a specific
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  Speaker 3: purpose by their creator that can only be fulfilled in them.
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  Speaker 3: And so when you talk about the power of the
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  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit entering a classroom and being a ministry opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you I have met Regent graduates.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't say graduates that are holding advanced degrees.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Graduates certificate programs, graduates who have taken five, 10 classes
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  Speaker 3: from us who said, these classes.
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  Speaker 2: Changed my life.
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  Speaker 3: So we believe that this is a ministry opportunity and
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  Speaker 3: we're believing the Lord that he is going to raise
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  Speaker 3: up leaders from this school of leadership that are not
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: going to just change Dallas or the region, but frankly,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: change the U.S.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: And the world.
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  Speaker 1: My God, you do something when I think about praying
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: teachers and teachers who are going before God and asking
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: God to bless me and to help me as a student.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't your experience in school have been so much different
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: if you had had that opportunity to invite the Holy
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Spirit to participate.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: In the learning process?
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Tear down some phobias and fears that are inherent in
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: our background or childhood or people who told us what
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: we couldn't be or couldn't have. Now's the time to seize.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: this opportunity. Why don't you log on to our website?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Give them this website one more time. And I want
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you to write this down. I want you to really
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: seize this moment. And I want you to take this challenge.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: This is, I believe, God creating a format and a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: platform that will fit your life schedule and give you
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go higher in the kingdom of God.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: Is that all right?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: So You can go to tdjakesleadership.com. That's tdjakesleadership.com.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: Log on.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: We have it prepared for you. And get ready to
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: embark on your future. You don't have to have a degree.
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: You have certificate programs to strengthen what you're trying to do.
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: If you have a bachelor's degree or a master's degree
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: and you need to develop your skill sets, You can
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: go on to the tbjsleadership.com as well because these classes
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: are for everyone to prepare you.
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  Speaker 4: To go forward as a leader because the world is.
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  Speaker 6: Looking for leaders.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, ding, ding, the bell is ringing. School is about
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  Speaker 1: to start and we are waiting for you.
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  Speaker 6: Take care.