Orbis-Sentry mission statement: Equipping the body of Christ to engage intelligently on worldview and global issues from a biblical perspective with sound reasoning, while avoiding fear-based narratives and speculations.

Who we are

Carl Teichrib

Carl Teichrib is a researcher, writer, and lecturer focusing on the paradigm shift sweeping the Western world, including the challenges and opportunities faced by Christians. Over the years he has attended a range of internationally significant events in his quest to understand the forces of transformation, including the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Burning Man, transhumanist conferences, and United Nations and global governance/security forums.

Since the mid-1990s, Carl’s research has been utilized by authors, media hosts and documentary producers, pastors, professors and students, and interested lay people. From 2007 until the end of 2015, he edited a monthly web-based magazine, Forcing Change, documenting and detailing the worldview revolution underway – points of pressure, forces of change.

He teaches a modular course on Secular Trends at Millar College, frequently speaks at conferences, and is the author of Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment.

Carl’s biases are transparent: he embraces an evangelical Christian perspective, is pro-liberty versus politically imposed equality, pro-individualistic versus consensus collectivism, and pro-free market.

George Olson

After serving his country in the US Navy, and then working as an electrical engineer for 3 years, George left his career to serve God through missionary service.

George and his wife Ginny lived in the Philippines for 12 years, where they learned to speak Tagalog, lived with an indigenous people group in the jungle for 3 years. After that time, Ginny took a position as a teacher for international students, while George served as a language coach and then as security manager for ex-pats in the country.

In 2008 while living in the jungle, George and Ginny faced a direct terrorist threat on their family, in which a group of terrorists from another island came to their area with the intent and purpose of kidnapping them and holding them for ransom. This experience, along with years of studying the history of the region in its geopolitical context, equipped George to be qualified to speak on global events, worldview trends, how they are connected, and their current effects on the church at large.

In 2024 after George attended the Texas Eclipse Event with Carl, Ginny and George joined Carl at Burning Man.

How we connected

Carl and George met through a conference in 2024. Then after attending the Texas Eclipse Event festival together that year, Carl invited George to join his team at the Camp of the Unknown God at Burning Man. They began to collaborate, and George attended other events with Carl, such as Paganicon 2025 and the Dayton Dialogue in 2025, which was a NATO sponsored symposium. It soon became clear that Carl and George should team up to promote the vision of Christians living righteously and soberly through a solid understanding of the world from a Biblical perspective, without speculations or fear-based narratives.

Transformational events

Events like the Texas Eclipse Event, Burning Man, regional burns, Paganicon, and certain music festivals are put together with the intent of bringing people into a new vision for humanity. The body of Christ has been largely unprepared for this widespread change in the underlying worldview of Western society. The new way of thinking has been thought of as “New Age,” or secularism, but has largely not been recognized for what it really is: an all-encompassing worldview shift away from Christendom. However, the church needs to recognize this, because this changing worldview is enveloping all areas of Western society, and is not only the root cause of the social and political unrest we are experiencing in the Western world, but also the root cause of the global tensions that are driving geopolitical changes.

To learn more about this, register for membership and see some of the resources we have here on this website. Also, we highly recommend reading Carl’s book, Game of Gods.

Geopolitical symposiums, NATO and UN conferences, tracking G7, G20, and other world focused international relations events

The Dayton Dialogue was a parallel event to the meeting of the NATO parliament in 2025, which marked 30 years since the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Balkans war of the 1990s. To read more about that event, Carl has put together a really good description here. As a veteran of the Balkans war, George wrote up his thoughts here.

Why are we tracking the meetings of world leaders? In this age of information and AI, changes are coming so quickly that they develop into a flow. The flow of geopolitical changes parallels the flow of information that is available to everyone. The challenge is to sort through all of it with the right framework.

Whether it is the Munich Security Conference, the Shangri-La Dialogue, the UN Assembly, or other events, following what they are saying and paying attention to the details is paramount in understanding the direction that things are likely to go. All of these changes are affected by this underlying and developing change in worldview. If the body of Christ is going to respond appropriately to the changes around us, we must understand the why behind those changes.

This is one of the primary goals of Orbis-Sentry - to be a resource for the body of Christ in understanding the changes.

Forming Orbis-Sentry

At the Dayton Dialogue, as we were discussing worldview changes and world events, and also how God has been pressing each of us to be involved and to respond, the realization dawned on us. We needed to officially join forces to pursue what both of us were already doing individually. This would have a synergistic effect, and would empower both of us to carry on our work more effectively.

We scratched out an initial mission statement (which you can see by clicking on the above picture). That mission statement has since been modified, but the core idea remains intact.

We committed to pray about this over the next few days and weeks, which confirmed to both of us that we were on the right track.

We chose "Orbis-Sentry" because it is an evocative name that appropriately identifies us as being concerned with global awareness, vigilance, and monitoring worldwide trends. Here's a breakdown of its meaning:

Orbis

Latin for "world" or "circle/globe"
Conveys global scope, wholeness, and classical gravitas
Appears in phrases like orbis terrarum (the circle of lands = the world)

Sentry

English word meaning guard, watchman, sentinel
Conveys alertness, defense, and constant observation

For George: What about the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia?

I want to say that our work for the indigenous people of the Philippines and the other countries in the region will never be over. However, since our focus already shifted to security some years ago, the trajectory of our ministry now is more global in scope. As we press on with a more global focus on worldview trends with an eye on security, we will continue to be involved in ministry in the Philippines, as the Lord directs. I might also add, what is happening in the worldview space is already having an effect on the indigenous people all over the world. I have seen it firsthand in visits to indigenous churches overseas. I aim to address this in future posts.

Combining 20+ years of dedicated research, with 20+ years of overseas humanitarian service in high risk environments, we are uniquely equipped to speak on global security issues, geopolitical tensions, and the worldviews that underlie them.