What We Do

EDUCATION

We provide education that highlights how participation in Christ’s life bears upon various forms of cultural engagement for the sake of individual and community transformation. New Wine’s theology of cultural engagement is modeled and taught through facilitated courses, forums, workshops, and mentorship/discipleship opportunities. As participants move through education and consultation in how to live out our motto of “building relational bridges through Jesus” in various and distinctive cultural contexts, there will be opportunity for personal and community transformation.

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New Winery Courses, Forums and Workshops

Past Conferences

Cultural Encounters Journal

CONSULTATION

In addition to our work in education, which features orthodoxy, orthopraxy, and orthopathy, we also provide consultation to individuals, churches, and other nonprofits and communities. Our work in consultation involves listening and learning, looking for the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) that an individual or community faces, asset mapping, and facilitating and assisting with implementation of a strategy for moving forward in pursuit of transformation.

We provide consultation in all of our Areas of Engagment (see below). Contact us for more information.

TRANSFORMATION

All New Wine efforts are aimed at personal and community transformation in keeping with our Mission, Vision, and Values and our Mustard Seed Communities paradigm.

TRANSFORMATION ENDORSEMENT

“New Wine stretched me, grew me, and prepared me for greater impact in my ministerial setting. My boxes and paradigms were not only challenged, but I was afforded countless opportunities to engage new ideas and perspectives in real-world scenarios rich in diversity and culture. As a former New Wine New Wineskins intern, I was invited to participate and engage at even deeper levels as we sought to assess, strategize, and grow the institute. The time I spent with New Wine in varying capacities challenged me, changed me, and forever affected the azimuth of how and why I do what I do for Christ and culture.”
Will Haag, Capt USMC (Ret) Graduate of Multnomah Seminary Current DMin student at Seattle University

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AREAS OF ENGAGEMENT

New Wine approaches life from a deep core in Trinitarian and biblical faith with an emphasis on diverse connections. God leads us to build bridges and set tables through Jesus in the Spirit for enriching exchanges and shared life around a great many pressing matters in our society. These areas of engagement are not exhaustive, but express New Wine’s keen passion to care for the common good in view of our uncommon God.

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New Wine Center for Integration and Cultural Engagement at Multnomah University and Seminary

For 23 years, The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine, New Wineskins administered the New Wine Center for Integration and Cultural Engagement (NWICE), an official program at Multnomah University and Seminary. This partnership reflected a shared commitment to biblically informed, Christ-centered cultural engagement through courses, conferences, faculty initiatives, and student involvement on and off campus. Recently, Multnomah University has transferred the full New Wine program together with all of its assets to The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine, New Wineskins.

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PAST CONFERENCES

COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FORUM

10.27.2021

This forum features Dr. Dave Kresta and a highly knowledgeable and experienced group of panelists addressing economics, community, faith and the truth of Jesus walking down main street today.

The New Wine, New Wineskins’ forum on Community Economic Development features Dr. David Kresta and his recently published volume titled, Jesus on Main Street: Good News Through Community Economic Development (Cascade, 2021), which emerges from his PhD research in urban studies at PSU. We are passionate about this subject and the import of it for gentrified Portland. Dr. Kresta gives a brief presentation, which is followed by responses from a highly knowledgeable and experienced group of panelists.

Featuring:

Dr. David E. Kresta (PhD, MBA), is author of Jesus on Main Street, a book for churches looking to bring healing to their local economies. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Portland State University where he teaches community and economic development. He is also a Fellow at the Ormond Center, Duke Divinity School, working to foster congregations that are agents of community thriving.

With Panelists:

Elder Catherine Brown, is a bi-vocational elder and member of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church where she serves as Business Manager, gospel preacher, and teacher under the leadership of Senior Pastor Craig L. Brown. She is also an elder associated with Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church. Additionally, Ms. Brown is the Senior Vice President of Marsh USA, Marsh McLennan Companies based in Portland Oregon. There, she is involved with delivering insurance, risk management, and advisory services to publicly traded, private, not-for-profit, and public sector companies. Ms. Brown is a mother, grandmother, and woman of the Most High God.

Dr. Greg Burch (PhD), is the director of the M.A. degree program at Multnomah in Global Development and Justice. Greg and his family lived in Venezuela and Costa Rica where they were involved in ministry with street-living children and training leaders in community development work in support of vulnerable children around the world. Greg is the author of the book Community Children: A Ministry of Hope and Restoration for the Street Dwelling Child and other articles and book chapters on transformational development work and vulnerable children. Greg is host of the Development and Justice Podcast and teaches courses in Transformational Development, Intercultural Communication and Children at Risk Studies.

Mr. Rudy Carrasco, is a program director with the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. He is a past organizer of Christian Community Development Association’s Market Solutions pre-conference. His articles on community and economic development have appeared in Forbes, Urban Faith, and Christianity Today.

Pastor J.W. Matt Hennessee serves as the Senior Servant of Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church of Portland, Oregon. He has had the distinction of serving in a variety of leadership capacities locally, nationally, and globally in public administration; private business; non-profit boards and commissions. He has served on the Board of Trustees at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA for nine years and presently serves on the Board of Trustees at the Berkeley School of Theology in Berkeley, CA. Pastor Hennessee has a passion for teaching and working alongside others in equity, economic development, and restorative and social justice wishing to see the barriers between people destroyed.

Moderator:

Dr. Paul Louis Metzger (PhD), is Professor of Theology & Culture at Multnomah University and Seminary. He is also the Founder and Director of the university’s Center for Integration & Cultural Engagement, Editor of New Wine’s journal, Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture, and author and editor of numerous volumes, including Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church (Eerdmans). Dr. Metzger is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, and served as Senior Mission Scholar in Residence, Spring 2018 at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut.

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2021 CONFERENCE: MENTAL HEALTH: BUILDING BRIDGES, NOT WALLS

2.26.2021

The discussion on mental health within the church and the community is a vital and most timely one to have in our current culture. Often conversations regarding mental health are marked by religious stigma. How should we, as the church, foster hope and connect empathetically with those struggling?

FROM ISOLATION TO INCLUSION: A NEW WINE DOCUMENTARY

11.18.2020

This online screening was followed by a panel discussion featuring special guests from the documentary.

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Get Involved

New Wine, New Wineskins hosts conferences and events in-person and virtually. We share digital content via video, social media, podcast, blog, and our academic journal, Cultural Encounters. If you would like to get involved, we invite you to pray with us, donate to our nonprofit, and reach out if you are interested in volunteering.