The Excellence of Generosity
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Annual Foundation Dinner
Friday, April 23, 2010, 6:30 PM
Speaker: Gordon MacDonald
Location: Second Presbyterian Fellowship Hall
4055 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN US 38111
Our Speaker
Gordon MacDonald is the Interim President of Denver Seminary as well as an author, speaker, and teacher. He was a pastor for more than forty years, most recently the senior minister at Grace Chapel, Lexington, Massachusetts. When he stepped down from that position, the Grace Chapel congregation honored him with the title, Pastor Emeritus. Other pastorates were in New York City, Southern Illinois and Kansas. For three years MacDonald was president of Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship.
MacDonald has written more than a dozen books and co-authored others with his wife, Gail. Perhaps his best known book has been Ordering Your Private World which won the Gold Medallion and the Platinum Awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association. There are almost a million and a half copies of this book in print, and it has been translated into a dozen or more languages. Among his other books are Secrets of a Generous Life, The Life God Blesses, Renewing Your Spiritual Passion, When Men Think Private Thoughts and Mid-Course Correction. He writes regularly for each addition of Leadership Journal and also writes a column (“Out of my Files”) which appears on the LeadershipJournal.net website. A Resilient Life was released in early 2005 and his most recent book, Who Stole My Church, appeared in January of 2008. It was nominated as a finalist for The Christian Book Award, by the Evangelical Christian Press Association and received a starred review from Publishers’ Weekly. Who Stole My Church has received an Award of Merit from Christianity Today.
MacDonald serves as Editor-at-Large with Leadership Journal, a publication of Christianity Today, Inc. Until recently, he was the Chairman of the Board of World Relief Corporation, an NAE-associated relief and development organization. He also speaks frequently at conferences for the Willow Creek Association both here in the US and in other parts of the world. Privately, he engages with company leaders as an executive coach.
His academic background includes a prep school graduation from the Stony Brook School, a B.A. from the University of Colorado (’62), and a M. Div from Denver Seminary (’66). Barrington College (later merged with Gordon College) awarded MacDonald an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree in 1979.
Gordon and Gail MacDonald, married 46 years, live on an old farm they call Peace Ledge in Canterbury, N.H. Their great satisfaction is in their two married children and five grandchildren. Beyond that the MacDonalds are hikers, bikers, kayakers, and vigorous readers.
