Speaker

Rev. Dr. Michael Beck

Rev. Dr. Michael Beck is a pastor, professor, and author. He is a spiritual guide who helps people heal, love, and unleash imagination to create better lives, organizations, and communities. Beck and his wife Jill are co-pastors of Wildwood UMC in Wildwood, Florida, St. Marks UMC in Ocala, Florida, and a network of 13 fresh expressions led by laity that gather in tattoo parlors, dog parks, burrito joints, and digital spaces. They direct an inpatient rehab center, a shelter for those experiencing homelessness, and an anti-racism movement.

He serves as the director of Fresh Expressions for the Florida Conference of The UMC, director of the Fresh Expressions House of Studies at United Theological Seminary, and director of ReMissioning for Fresh Expressions US. Beck has a passion for helping laity and clergy plant new forms of church. He helps church leaders across the globe follow Jesus in fresh and exciting ways. In addition to teaching as an adjunct professor at several seminaries, he coaches, trains, and educates leaders internationally across a broad theological spectrum and has consulted with hundreds of churches, districts, denominations, networks, synods, and dioceses.

Beck earned a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary and a Doctorate in Semiotics and Future Studies at Portland Seminary with his mentor Leonard Sweet. He’s the author of eight books and is considered a global thought leader in the missional church movement.


Living Into Our Shared Vision Teaching Sessions

At the invitation of Bishop Tracy S. Malone, Rev. Dr. Beck led three teaching sessions during Annual Conference 2022 that encouraged East Ohio Conference clergy and laity to live into our shared vision in new ways.

Any of the videos to the left can be downloaded by first clicking the share button in the upper right corner of a video window, then clicking the respective Vimeo link. Then, on each video's Vimeo page, click the download link underneath the video window.

View and download the PowerPoint presentation Contextual Intelligence: The Ancient Secret to Mission on the Frontlines.

View and download the PowerPoint presentation 21st Century Discipleship: Church-Planting Anyone Can Do.

View and download the PowerPoint presentation Blended Ecology: New People, Younger People, Diverse People.