Concurrent Session Topics
- A Living Family Legacy or Death Plan - Which One Do You Have? -
A testamentary plan commonly known as a Will is the minimum known requirement for passing on an inheritance to the ones we love after we pass on. A Living Legacy Plan, however, is designed to focus on our quality of life and living benefits first, and only then proceed to address after-death issues. To be complete, the plan should take into account all aspects of the ACF Family and Community including income, tax, retirement lifestyle, investment risk, asset protection, and strategies and tactics that reduce or preferably eliminate all
estate taxes while still allowing us to optimize deployment of our assets for maximum impact during our lifetime. The Legacy Plan should include ongoing training for those who will take responsibility for the continuation of the Family Legacy so they know what to do after we are gone. This is an informative session on how to plan your family legacy.
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- "Jacob, I have Loved": Learning to Negotiate for A Future Better Than Your Present -
The future is either bought or sold by the choices of today; and the choices of today are influenced by the paradigm we operate from. The main feature of the Esau paradigm is that it sacrifices the opportunities and potential of the future in order to fulfill the necessities of the present. Jacob, on the other hand, sold the present to buy the future. The more we lean toward the Jacob paradigm, the stronger we will become as individuals, as a people and as a nation. Come and learn how.
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- Money versus Wealth - Creating Healthy and Prosperous Covenant Communities and Living Economies -
This is a type of community where the money system serves as a dutiful servant of wealth creation, allocating real capital to productive investment, rewarding those who do productive work in relation to their contribution and resulting in a strong and caring social fabric and balance with the natural environment. If enough of us decide we value life more than money, we have the means and the right to create an economy that nurtures life and restores money to its proper role as life's servant.
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- Cultures in Conflict -
It has been said that Christ is the sum total of all that is best in all cultures. The African cultural world-view is summed up by the Bantu concept of "Ubuntu" which is built on five interrelated principles of:
- sharing and collective ownership of opportunities, responsibilities and challenges
- the importance of people and relationships over things
- participatory decision making and leadership
- patriotism
- reconciliation as a goal of conflict management
This workshop will examine the advantages and disadvantages of the African Cultural Heritage and how it stacks up against popular Western culture which expects competition in every aspect of our lives, equal opportunity and equal rights under the law, respect for individual freedom and the individual pursuit of material wealth. This session will discuss how these cultures in conflict affect the prospects and progress of the African professional in the marketplace, our relationships with our family members and our contribution to the society at large.
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- Positioning our Children for Empowered Leadership - Spiritually, Socio-Culturally and Economically - Whether we realize it or not, the fact is our children born in this country are American citizens and will likely not return to Africa when we retire back home (if that is what we choose to do). While we attempt to connect them to their roots, we must concurrently ensure that we have adequately positioned them for success in this environment so that they can wield sufficient influence to impact this society positively and hopefully, affect the direction US-Africa policy in the future. This workshop will discuss the vision and leadership responsibility required to propel our children to prominence.
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- There is no becoming a King without Recovering your Queen - Restoring the Years that the Cancer Worm has Eaten - What do you do when, like David at Ziklag, you wake up one day to find that the enemy has take your Spouse (Queen) and Children captive, plundered your assets and turned your followers against you? Do you hit the panic button or are there some strategies and tactics to take back what the enemy has stolen? Developed from the story of David in 1 Samuel Chapter 30, this workshop will discuss strategies to recover all and restore the desolations of past generations.
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- The "Sandwich Generation" - Who are the so called the "Sandwich Generation?" It's no other but we Africans abroad. We are not only responsible to our children in America but also to our parents back in Africa. We are their life insurance and 401k. Most Africans abroad have unwillingly thinned their own pockets in trying to meet these horrendous responsibilities. Come and learn how not to become a victim of the circumstance.
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- Capacity Development for Sustainable Impact - The session will explore how ACF can empower her members to be professionally developed in order to be economically independent as to bring about sustainable impact in their lives and communities. It will also explore ways to implement those programs and projects that will bring about a sustainable impact on Africa. This is a follow up to the 2006 National Leadership Summit.
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