Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert
~ Isaiah 35:6
JUNE 2–11
what is springstream2020?
European SpringStream 2020 is a mini conference for Christian content creators.
what WAS on the plate?
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6 sessions for Christian content creators (June 2-11). You still can watch them!
- 50 min sessions done as online interviews.
- The sessions give us an ideas on how to overcome the current crisis.
whY WATCH?
- Get TIPS & tricks from leading industry PROFESSIONALS.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- Learn some useful tools to work from home.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- Find out how to DEVISE your own FINANCIAL model for the “new normal”.⠀⠀
- Choose HOPE in the times of fear.
WORKING FROM HOME:
self-disciplines and working space
Daniel Hofkamp is a specialist in current, religious and cultural information at Digital Media (Spain).
- He holds a degree in Journalism from the Santiago de Compostela University (2006).
- He studied Theology (Éfeso Project).
- He has been part of the Protestante Digital editorial team since May 2008, and its Director since 2018.
- All the editorial team of Protestante Digital works from home.
Martin Manser is a professional reference-book editor and trainer (UK).
- Since 1980 he has compiled or edited more than 200 reference books in the areas of English language and Bible reference.
- Since 2001 he has been leading courses on communications and business skills, time management, project management, report writing and running effective meetings.
- He’s been working from home for more than a decade.
Moderator
Alice Keen
MAI-Europe Trustee (UK)
GROWING IN CRISIS:
THE PRESENCE OF GOD DEPENDS ON US
Father Meletios (Webber) is a priest at St. Nicolas Russian Orthodox Church (Amsterdam).
- His post-graduate education includes a Masters degree in Theology from Oxford University and the Thessalonica School of Theology, Greece.
- He holds a doctorate in psychological counselling.
- Archimandrite Meletios was the abbot of the Monastery of St. John of San Francisco of Manton, California.
- Currently, he is serving at St. Nicolas Church in Amsterdam, a Russian Orthodox church with a large, multi-lingual cosmopolitan community.
- Father Meletios has published two books.
Steps of Transformation: An Orthodox Priest Explores the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.Bread and Water, Wine and Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God.
Moderator
Anna Shirochenskaya
MAI-Europe Vice-Chair
NEXT STEPS FOR DIGITIZING YOUR CONTENT:
MAKING THE MOST OF NEW SALES OPPORTUNITIES
Carlo Carrenho is from Brazil but lives in Sweden. He is a publishing consultant and journalist.
- He is a founder of PublishNews, a daily electronic newsletter in Spanish that covers the Spanish book market.
- As a book trade specialist, he has moderated and lectured in events such as Digital Book World in the U.S., China’s First World Conference of Digital Publications and South Africa’s Digital Technologies Summit.
- Currently, he works for Word Audio Publishing International (Sweden). They publish audiobooks.
Juan Triviño is from Spain. He is a publisher. Director and founder of Ediciones Noufront, Producción Editorial y Noubooks.
- Besides publishing their own books, they provide digital training for publishers.
- They’re specialists in digital support (design, layout, ePub, etc.)
- Moreover, Juan is a publishing consultant that has worked with the biggest publishing houses like Tyndale and Harper Collins.
- He wrote a book on how to publish your own titles and what aspiring writers should know about the publishing world.Quiero publicar mi libro! Todo lo que un escritor novel debe saber sobre el mundo editorial. (I Want to Publish My Book. Everything that a writer needs to know about the publishing world).
Moderator
Anna Shirochenskaya
MAI-Europe Vice-Chair
Financial Survival & Thriving in a “New Normal”: what might it look like?
Sam Richardson, CEO at SPCK. He leads the staff team and works closely with the trustees.
- Sam’s background before joining SPCK in 2014 was in commercial publishing.
- He won Young Independent Publisher of the Year in 2016,
- He lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife and their three boys, and supports Crystal Palace.
Tim Thornborough is the founder and Publishing Director of The Good Book Company.
- He is series editor of Explore Bible-reading notes, and has contributed to many books published by the Good Book Company.
- He is the author of a series of Bible Story books for young children: The Very Best Bible Stories.
- Tim lives in the leafy London suburb of New Malden, where he is a part of a small church plant. He is married to Kathy and has three adult daughters.
Moderator
Anna Shirochenskaya
MAI-Europe Vice-Chair
The Nature of Post-Covid Spirituality: the future readership we choose?
Alexandr Flek is a Czech publisher, author, theologian and the chief translator of the bestselling Czech Bible version, Bible21.
- Currently he heads the BIBLION Publishing House, which recently released a book that he authored called the Parable, a provocative paraphrase of the Gospels in contemporary Czech setting.
- After the Velvet revolution in 1989 he became the founding pastor of a local church.
- He has been involved in the indigenous church planting movements, non-profit organizations and social activism.
Klaus Erik Krogh (Denmark) is a graphic designer, who also is the founder, partner and CEO at 2K/Denmark AS (previously 2Krogh AS).
- It is an award-winning design company, the world leader within Bible design and layout, as well as type foundry and it’s a concept developer.
- He worked with Vaere Sammen AS (Norway), as a developer and producer of multimedia communication programs for children, often through character-driven universes The Rainbow Lion (anti-bullying and inclusion) Noah Inventions bv (Netherlands) 2009-2019.
- Klaus collaborated with Noah Inventions bv (Netherlands), developers of international app-solutions, together with Royal Jongbloed bv. 2011-2015
Moderator
Anna Shirochenskaya
MAI-Europe Vice-Chair
Practical Solutions and Strategies
for Challenging Times:
open discussion forum [session ended]
Panel discussion, sharing, brainstorming, strategizing!
Janet Wilson (UK), founder of Dernier Publishing.
- Janet has a passion to reach the new generation with excellent, relevant Christian stories that will encourage readers in their faith.
- She has a dream that one day all children will have access to Christian books in an accessible format in their own heart language, and works towards that aim.
- Janet is a wife, a mother of three grown up children and has two wonderful grandsons.
- She lives on the outskirts of London.
- She set up Dernier Publishing when she saw the need for fun ‘chapter books’ with Christian themes for older children, and now also runs Write for a Reason; a resource for writers.
Carlo Carrenho is from Brazil but lives in Sweden. He is a publishing consultant and journalist.
- He is a founder of PublishNews, a daily electronic newsletter in Spanish that covers the Spanish language book market.
- As a book trade specialist, he has moderated and lectured in events such as Digital Book World in the U.S., China’s First World Conference of Digital Publications and South Africa’s Digital Technologies Summit.
- Currently, he works for Word Audio Publishing International (Sweden). They publish audiobooks.
Klaus Erik Krogh (Denmark) is a graphic designer, who also is the founder, partner and CEO at 2K/Denmark AS (previously 2Krogh AS).
- It is an award-winning design company, the world leader within Bible design and layout, as well as type foundry and it’s a concept developer.
- He worked with Vaere Sammen AS (Norway), as a developer and producer of multimedia communication programs for children, often through character-driven universes The Rainbow Lion (anti-bullying and inclusion) Noah Inventions bv (Netherlands) 2009-2019.
- Klaus collaborated with Noah Inventions bv (Netherlands), developers of international app-solutions, together with Royal Jongbloed bv. 2011-2015.
Samuil Petrovski was born in Belgrade, in the family of Yugoslavia diplomats. After Samuil finished his business studies in Belgrade (later his master in Belgrade), he joined the IFES student movement as a volunteer, and later he became a staff and the general secretary from 2002.
- Samuil’s passion and gift is evangelism and together with regional leaders and with Lindsay Brown from UK are doing many mission weeks in Serbia and region.
- Samuil is also serving as volunteer president of the Serbian Evangelical Alliance.
- He is a preacher the International Christian Fellowship in Belgrade. He is engaged in several local, regional and international initiatives. Samuil loves teaching Bible and has a passion for good, healthy Biblical literature in the Serbian language.
- Samuil is married to the medical doctor Nada, and together they have two kids.
Moderator
Alice Keen
MAI-Europe Trustee (UK)