Spidahl to speak at conference for mission leaders
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Spidahl will speak on “Intercultural Competencies for Short-Term Missions.” He will provide guidelines for grasping key aspects of religious, cultural and ethnic awareness, especially the importance of attitude and roles in observation, language and learning style.
Spidahl and his family lived for five years in sub-Saharan A member of the National Advisory Board of the Ethnic America Network, Spidahl teaches missions, world religions, understanding Islam, and a class on developing intercultural competencies. He and his wife, Alice, live in a Mission House on campus with 16 students. Spidahl joined Northwestern’s faculty in 2005 after teaching missions at Lutheran Brethren Seminary in