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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. 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Lotz, Billy Graham’s second daughter, has just completed a discourse on the Gospel of John before 3,500 women at the Convention Center in Raleigh, N.C. In the course of her message, she has listed the terrible ways in which a believer’s faith can be tried: “Maybe \[Jesus\] did a few things for them at the beginning and answered their prayers. But then what happened? Did they get hit with cancer? Or did something happen to their child? Or maybe they lost their job…” In fact, something did happen to the denim-clad woman’s child: two weeks ago, he was murdered. As the woman sobs out her sorrow and presses a Bible forward to be signed, the normally regal, impeccably coiffed speaker, seemingly stunned, breaks down and cries with her. It is the sort of thing Lotz will need to get used to. Starting this Friday in Knoxville, Tenn., Graham’s 51-year-old daughter, long called the offspring who most fully inherited his preacher’s gift, is scheduled to face not just thousands but tens of thousands of the faithful in a free-of-charge, five-city revival tour titled Just Give Me Jesus. That itinerary, at arenas seating as many as 25,000, moves her into an orbit nearly as exalted as that of her brother Franklin, heir-designate to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. But whereas Franklin was carefully groomed for the BGEA’s bright lights, Anne has had little handed to her. “Financially,” she says, the revivals are “way beyond our limits.” Friends have warned her that if her foray flops, “it will destroy my ministry.” If successful, however, the tour–aimed at women but open to all–could propel her to national prominence and pose a challenge to conservative evangelicals who have long held that women in general–and Lotz in particular–should avoid the pulpit. She is the whole package. Knife thin, with a ringing alto, Lotz commands the kind of pyrotechnics that once got Billy nicknamed the Gospel Machine Gun. “God made atoms and angels and ants and crocodiles and clouds and elephants and electrons,” she riffed recently before segueing stunningly from Creation to Crucifixion: “…and diamonds and dinosaurs and raindrops and sweat drops and dew drops and blood drops.” Like Billy, she enjoys a oneness with her message that Lewis Drummond of Beeson Divinity School calls “the ring of genuine Christian reality.” But where Billy has always concentrated on the basic “invitation” of nonbelievers to salvation, Anne addresses complexities of both Scripture and Christian life. “There’s preaching from the heart and preaching from the head,” notes Drummond. “Put the two together, and you’ve really got something.” Lotz’s life story is as familiar to evangelicals as a Kennedy’s might be to the population at large. They know about her father’s long absences on Crusades (she has described her mom Ruth as a “single mother”); how he introduced Anne, then 17, to 29-year-old college-sports star and airman-turned-dentist Danny Lotz; and how, after Lotz proposed on their third date, Billy intoned, “Anne, I think Danny Lotz is the man you’re going to marry.” Early miscarriages contributed to a period of depression, and even after her three children were born, Lotz sometimes felt trapped “in small talk and small toys and small sticky fingerprints.” She decided to start a women’s Bible-study class: 300 women showed up, and attendance grew thereafter. Encouraged, Lotz began speaking publicly–and powerfully–on Scripture. Her father’s biographer William Martin described her holding her own with the best at the 1983 World Evangelical Conference, “driving her points home with the same two-pistol hand gesture and hammering cadence her father had used so effectively for 40 years.” He, in turn, took notice. Says Michael Maudlin, editorial director at Christianity Today: “Even Billy says she’s the best preacher in the family.” (“I agree,” says Franklin.) Yet the plaudit carried an asterisk. At a 1988 pastors’ conference, many in Lotz’s audience ostentatiously turned their chairs around so as not to face a preaching woman. Says Martin: “There was no chance of her taking \[the leadership\] role in the BGEA hierarchy because she’s the daughter instead of the son.” In fact, despite being on the BGEA board, Lotz has only once had a major part in a Crusade. “I would like to see her have a larger role,” says Franklin, “and the time will come when we can do that, but at his age, my father is just trying to finish the ministry he’s got, not give birth to a new one.” Without BGEA-level resources, Anne opted for free-lance itinerancy, accepting guest slots in other people’s programs. Somehow she was still named, along with Franklin, by the New York Times as one of five most likely candidates for Billy’s mantle as America’s preacher. Finally she had enough of parachuting in. When a last attempt to negotiate a significant BGEA role failed two years ago, she says, “I cried into my pillow and said, ‘Lord, if you’ve given me this burden and this vision, you’ve got to show me how to do it. If not, withdraw the gift.'” Soon after, she says, she began hearing from broad coalitions of churches in various cities willing to share the cost of her mini-Crusade. Billy has sent out a letter commending the tour. Despite their ambition, the revivals offer elements–“a whole series of sidesteps,” says Christianity Today’s Maudlin–that minimize their challenge to male dominance. Lotz has chosen not to be ordained; she calls herself a Bible expositor not a preacher, and Just Give Me Jesus is technically aimed at women. But if she performs as she’s capable, all that will burn away. Sometimes when she speaks, she acknowledges, “It’s like the fire falls, and the Lord just pours out,” as happened with the prophet Elijah. “If a man walks in the door,” at the revivals, she asks, “why should we get all bent out of shape?” Addressing the ladies of Raleigh, she invokes John 20, where Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene at his tomb. “Jesus is telling Mary, a woman, to go tell his disciples, 11 men, her personal testimony with the risen Christ, and to give out his message,” declaims Lotz. “When people have a problem with women in the ministry, they need to take it up with Jesus. 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