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Where has God called you? Does one’s calling change? What is our role in bringing about culture worthy of God’s Kingdom? How can you use your own power and influence to make a difference?

Trinity Forum Academy’s Professional Leaders Week will provide a rich and refreshing opportunity for Christian leaders to assess their own calling in context of their career and community in order to develop an effective voice for carrying out biblical cultural engagement today. You will have the opportunity for discussion and fellowship with our hosts as well as a deliberate cohort of likeminded leaders.

 Your Hosts for the Week 

Dr. Os Guinness, an author and social critic, was one of the founders of The Trinity Forum and Trinity Forum Academy, and was the first to articulate a vision for Osprey Point as a center for teaching and equipping Christian leaders. He served at L’Abri with Francis Schaeffer for seven years. Os completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. He has written or edited more than twenty-five books, including The American Hour, Time for Truth, The Call, Invitation to the Classics, Long Journey Home, and Unspeakable: Facing up to the Challenge of Evil, and most recently, The Case for Civility. Previously, Os was a freelance reporter with the BBC. Since coming to the United States in 1984, he has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1986 to 1989, Os served as Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a bicentennial celebration of the First Amendment. In this position he helped to draft the Williamsburg Charter and co-authored the public school curriculum Living With Our Deepest Differences. Os has served as an adviser to political and business leaders, and recently served as a senior research fellow at the East West Institute.

Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. He has served as executive producer of the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip and was editorial director of the Christian Vision Project from 2005 to 2008. He is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute, and serves on the boards of Fuller Theological Seminary and Equitas Group. From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

 Vacation with a Purpose

In festive Chesapeake style, this "vacation with a purpose" will not only address how to think about biblical cultural engagement, but will create a vivid and multifaceted cultural experience through food, fellowship, art, music, and discussion. Each morning Os Guinness and Andy Crouch will lead the group through a framework for understanding how to respond to a “post-Christian West, and a post-Western Christianity” through a call toward a Christian Renaissance. Os will focus on understanding calling in the context of a globalized society, and Andy will explore the nature of culture and power, and their importance in the Kingdom of God.

A Day at Professional Leaders Week

Featured Evening Activities

• Sunset wine and cheese cruise
• Arts workshop
• Film and discussion
• Musical performance

Osprey Point - Your Bay Home for the Week

At Osprey Point, first-class hospitality, uncommonly fresh, savory cuisine and unforgettable ambiance, is just business as usual. We can't wait to greet you with our signature warm welcome! Our private, relaxed environment provides an ideal setting for any retreat, though our fast, free wireless Internet will keep you connected with the outside world. Nestled on Maryland’s charmed Eastern Shore, Osprey Point is just 90 minutes from Washington DC and Baltimore. In partnership with Trinity Forum Academy, and in accord with our founding charter, we hope your week with us helps to "make Jesus central, community viable, faith thinkable, creation and the arts integral, leadership honorable, goodness fashionable, and our generation responsible."

Maryland's Eastern Shore

Attendees will have plenty of free time in the evenings to explore the many local attractions. St. Michaels offers an impressive maritime museum, a host of boutique shops and restaurants, and plenty of places to relax or explore. Just a bicycle ride away, the 300-year-old Oxford-Bellevue Ferry delivers passengers to a variety of shops, as well as the famed Scottish Highland Creamery. Osprey Point offers numerous recreation opportunities, including canoeing and kayaking, tennis, volleyball, shuffleboard, a freshwater pool, a gym, and Frisbee golf.

Registration 

To register, please contact Trinity Forum Academy at 410.745.4411 or email Graham Shea at gshea@ttf.org.

Download the registration form.

Pricing

Singles attendee - $2,500

Couple - $3,750

Transportation to and from Baltimore Washington International Airport on Sunday, June 19 and Saturday, June 25 is available complements of Osprey Point and Trinity Forum Academy.

A deposit of $1,000 is due upon registratin to reserve your place at the conference. The remaining registration cost must be paid by April 30. If you need to cancel your reservation, please contact us as soon as possible. After April 30, $500 (50% of your deposit) cannot be refunded. 

Trinity Forum Academy

Trinity Forum Academy is a nine-month residential graduate program designed to help young leaders live with integrity in all that they do. It challenges them to understand their core beliefs and to work them out in every aspect of their lives. The Academy is proud to host Professional Leaders Week, in line with its mission to help others “know Jesus and His way more deeply, know themselves and their callings more clearly, and know the world of today, its opportunities and challenges, more discerningly."