Geneva Agape Foundation Newsletter No. 1 July 2017
www.gafoundation.world
Message from the Founder President
Hello everyone!
Thank you for your interest, concern and support for Geneva Agape Foundation GAF!
From today, we hope to use the web platform to share with you more, which includes to tell the stories about love and change.
You are sincerely welcomed to tell us what moves you, your own story, your suggestion to GAF!
Looking forward to working with you, side by side we can build a world where there is more faith, more hope and more love!
May the loving dream come true!
Prof. Dr. Cui Wantian
Founder and President, Geneva Agape Foundation
Beijing/Shenyang, China
UPCOMING EVENTS
Calling for Participation! Faith-based Entrepreneurs Conference, Geneva, Jan. 2018 The conference will take place on Jan 22 & 23 in Geneva, Switzerland! If you are a faith-based entrepreneur or enrolled in a relevant organization, please join us! See details
Religion and Business Ethics Symposium, Beijing, Dec. 2017 The first symposium of Religion and Business Ethics will happen on 2, 3 Dec. 2017 in Beijing, China. It is organized by GAF's partner the Center for Study of Religion and Business Ethics of Renmin University of China CSRBE.
99 Charity Day, Shenyang, Sep. 2017 Happening annually on 9 Sep, co-organized by GAF's partner Liaoning Agape Foundation and Tecent - one of the largest internet company in China. Tecent uses its online vehicles to drive public awareness and to innovate philanthropy in China, read what they did in 2016.
LATEST EVENTS
On 15 June, delegation of China Christian Council visited GAF, which consisted Rev. Wen Ge, Teacher of Nanjing Union Theological Seminary; Elder Ou Enli, Director of Overseas Relations Department, CCC/TSPM; Rev. Gao Feng, President of CCC; Rev. Liang Ming, Vice President of CCC. Read More
25-27 May, GAF Delegation attended the 36th German Protestant Kirchentag in Berlin, Wittenberg, Germany. It happened on the occasion of historical 500-year anniversary of Protestant Reformation. Read More
On 27 April, in the World Church Council building, GAF's Executive Director Prof. Stückelberger presented GAF and its uniqueness in the relationship with Christian entrepreneurs. Read More
31 March - 2 April, twelve Chinese entrepreneurs attended the 2017 Faith in Business conference in Cambridge, UK. GAF President Prof. Cui Wantian was a keynote speaker on 'Chinese Business Education'. Read More
ONLINE RESOURCES
Online Collection on Chinese Christianity OCCC, the worldwide largest online Collection on Chinese Christianity has over 34’500 full text multi-lingual documents which can be downloaded for free. OCCC is hosted on GAF website.
VALUES FOCUS
"Law and Love compete with each other to have the better, more effective and more sustainable way to overcome unethical behaviour. But more than competitors, Law and Love are twins: they need each other. Only with love, law becomes human. Only with law, love becomes binding." Read the article Law and Love: Competitors or Twins?by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c Christoph Stückelberger, the Executive Director of GAF
PUBLICATIONS
Upcoming Releases
Philanthropy and Foundation Management. A Guide to Philanthropy in Europe and China (Sep. 2017)
Li Jing, Christoph Stückelberger
ISBN 978-2-88931-179-8 - Globethics.net China Christian No. 4
Latest Releases Christian Faith and Values: An Introduction for Entrepreneurs in Chinaare available in three languages! Indonesian(2017), Chinese (2017), English(2014)
Cui Wantian; Yahya Wijaya; Christoph Stückelberger
ISBN 978-2-940428-86-1 - Globethics.net China Christian No. 1
我们都是地球上的客人 对气候正义的全球基督徒愿景 (2015)
克里斯托弗 司徒博
ISBN 978-2-88931-033-3 - Globethics.net China Christian No. 2
International Business Ethics (2016)
GAF partners Prof. Stephan Rothlin from Beijing and Prof. Dennis McCann from Hong Kong co-authored the book and published with Springer. This precious, 500 pages book, gives detailed insights and cases on how to implement ethical values in business.
Publications above are all free for download at Globethics.net Library
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT GAF
Doris Leuthard, President of Switzerland "The Geneva Agape Foundation is indeed a good sign, that Chinese entrepreneurs become internationally active in philanthropy."
Obiora Ike, Executive Director of Globethics.net, Geneva, Switzerland "GAF is practice of charity and natural reasoning applied in a sustainable manner to serve humanity: What the Gospels make clear is that love is the driving principle of creation, the incarnation and human salvation. By choosing the name AGAPE as brand of the newly established Non-Governmental Organization, GAF has rightly placed the practice of LOVE for entire creation – nature, nurture, flora and fauna at the centre of its activities. One might say that GAF is another name for Sustainability, rightly understood and commonly used in international parlance."
Xie Ying, Senior Executive of International Relationship, Amity Foundation, Nanjing, China "Far-sighted, Welcoming, Wise"
