Pivot co-hosts Dee Stokes and Dwight Zscheile talk with Michael Beck.
In episode 36, co-hosts Dee Stokes and Dwight Zscheile talk with Michael Adam Beck, who is a spiritual guide who helps people heal, love, and unleash imagination to create better lives and communities. His passion is to help individuals, organizations, and churches turn their greatest weakness into their superpower.
In the conversation, they talk to the American expert of Fresh Expressions, navigating the developments and challenges in this North American movement.
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Michael Adam Beck is a spiritual guide who helps people heal, love, and unleash imagination to create better lives and communities. His passion is to help individuals, organizations, and churches turn their greatest weakness into their superpower.
Dwight Zscheile is vice president of innovation and professor of congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary. His latest book is Leading Faithful Innovation: Following God into a Hopeful Future (with Michael Binder and Tessa Pinkstaff, Fortress Press, 2023).
Dr. Dee Stokes is a lover of Jesus and strives to love others like Jesus does and see them as they are in the image of God. She also loves deep conversations, and Dr. Dee Stokes is an entrepreneurial minister, educator, consultant, and program builder. In each of her diverse branches of work, she aims to repurpose organizations and support influential people who change the world and live out the Gospel.
Dr. Stokes serves as the Teaching Pastor at Christ Wesleyan Church in Greensboro, North Carolina; as the Director of Multicultural Ministry for the NC East District of The Wesleyan Church; as the President and CEO of her own non-profit ministry; and as the Director of the Seeds Project for Luther Seminary's Faith+Lead innovation team. She holds multiple degrees with focuses ranging from Educational Leadership (Ed.S. & Ed.D.) to Biblical and Theological Foundations (MBTF), and is a dedicated and devoted follower of Jesus whose deepest wish is for everyone to experience the Gospel in their lives!
