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Conference Agenda
The Beloved Community: From Formation to Action
 Featuring addresses by:
Progressive Christians Uniting's Executive Director
Peter Laarman
-Mercy and Truth Will Meet: What It Takes to Be a Movement That Matters
The Center for Progressive Christianity's President
Fred Plumer
-The Spiritual Foundation of Progressive Christianity and
-Creating Progressive communities of Faith
Emergent Cohort Pastor and Artist
Troy Bronsink
- The Art of Being Loved into being Love: Emerging Church as Intentional Spirituality.
Assistant Professor, Ordained Minister and Author
Rev. Dr. Margaret Aymer
-Leading worship on Friday night |
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October 10-11, 2008
St. Paul United Methodist Church
501 Grant Street. Atlanta, Georgia 30312 |
Overview of Conference
* Networking events for church leaders and for individuals In practicing communities of faith grounded in PC theology and practice
* Plenary addresses from leaders: both the formation end of the spectrum and the "in the trenches" action end of the spectrum
* Faith in Action presentations from groups in the Atlanta area doing social justice work
* Faith in Action working seminars putting hard working hands, hungry hearts and passionate minds together with agencies who are in the mission field in Atlanta
* Worship opportunities - engaging our hearts, minds and bodies in worship that sparks action, and working groups around pertinent issues and PC response
* Information and fellowship for those seeking ways to become such communities of faith without doing violence to tradition and scripture
* "Booths" for progressive churches/organizations from Atlanta and the Southeast
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Where & When
St. Paul United Methodist Church
501 Grant Street
Atlanta, GA 30312
October 10-11, 2008 |
Day 1- Friday, October 10, 2008
Schedule
 5:00 pm - Registration table opens; displays opens
6:00 pm - Evening prayers
6:30 pm - Coffee & conversation
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Plenary Address - Fred Plumer - The Spiritual Foundation of Progressive Christianity
8:30 - 9:30 pm - Call to Action Presentations (Opportunity for local action groups to introduce themselves and take 5 minutes to tell their story)
9:30 pm - After-hours fellowship at Six Feet Under
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| Where & When
St. Paul United Methodist Church 501 Grant Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30312
October 10-11, 2008 |
Day 2- Saturday, October 11, 2008
Schedule
 8:30 am Morning prayers
9:00 am Coffee & conversation
9:30 am - 10:15 am Plenary Address - Peter Laarman - Mercy and Truth Will Meet: What It Takes to Be a Movement That Matters"
10:15 am - 10:45 am Questions and Conversations- Rev. Laarman
10:45 am - 12:00 Break - visit the exhibits and author Candace Chellew-Hodge - Bullet Proof Faith
12:00 am - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm Plenary Address- Fred Plumer - Creating Progressive communities of Faith
2:00 pm - 2:30 Questions and conversation- Rev. Plumer
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Address Troy Bronsink - The Art of Being Loved into being Love: Emerging Church as Intentional Spirituality.
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Break
5:00 pm - 6:15 pm Dinner Break
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Panel Discussion
7:30 pm Worship of Sending Forth led by Rev. Dr. Margaret Aymer |
| Where & When
St. Paul United Methodist Church 501 Grant Street
Georgia, Atlanta October 10-11, 2008 |
