New Wilmington Mission Conference

I think it's an interesting idea. In some ways it makes sense for students to share the information they've worked to collect with someone other than their professor. When I was a grad student in Archaeology I considered this type of idea because I was frustrated by the lack of information available about the various obscure topics in which I was interested. As a grad student I was quite willing to put my papers on the topic up and interested in seeing other people's work on the topic, even if it was somewhat informal. I never got around to such an undertaking though, and I'm not sure how socially acceptable it would be in the academic world anyway. It could be taken as a little presumptuous for someone to publish their work on the web without the stamp of some authoritative body to give it credibility and assure it's quality. But overall, I think students probably wouldn't have a problem with your suggestion, and students seeking a MA or PhD might be the most interested. I doubt professors would like class notes published, but you'll have to hear from them on that point. I definitely think there should be some sort of editing committee (probably involving a professor or two) to decide what would get "published" or not. I'm not sure what type of information you were thinking of making available. I'm not sure that papers from most classes would add too much practical information to what is already available to people on the internet. A quick Google search yields a decent number of sites with some free Christian Education resources, such as: http://www.cob-net.org/othr_edu.htm http://www.youthandfamilyinstitute.org/downloads.asp http://www.stjohnadulted.org/index.htm I didn't look thoroughly at these sites, but they looked fairly promising for education material. Maybe papers from the more mission oriented classes would have some more unique information. Although, again it might be more technical than would be useful for the majority of people looking for information on Christian mission. So, I think the idea has some potential, but I'm not quite sure how it would work out...