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GLOBAL GATHERING
GOIANIA, BRAZIL 'SHARING THE LOVE THAT UNITES' JULY 25-29,2012 Stay in touch during the Global Gathering with ChristiaNet special news updates Global Gathering details remain on our website - www.worldconvention.org and www.convencaomundial2012.org  |
Brasilia Forum July 23-34, 2012
Will you be in Brasilia before the Global Gathering?
Igreja de Cristo in Brasilia, Plano Piloto EQS 305/306 will host the Brasilia Forum Monday-Tuesday prior to the Global Gathering opening on Wednesday. Special worship, lectures and discussions are planned, followed by a bus tour of the capitol city and trip to Goiania for the 18th Global Gathering, Sharing the Love That Unites. More detail here http://www.convencaomundial2012.org/?page_id=345
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Program
Plenary Speakers Click here for biographical information under the EVENTS/Global Gathering - Program section Classes
A variety of learning opportunities. Click here for list of presentation descriptions Global Women Connecting Special program and activities for women. Click here to view the schedule and learn more about the speakers. |
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Daily Disciple
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 The Beauty of Oregon
Oregon Christian Convention
It was my honor and joy to speak at the 160th Oregon Christian Convention in Turner, July 26-July 1. Deb and I were overwhelmed by the beauties of Oregon-tall trees, majestic skies, rivers, waterfalls, and mountains. But the greatest beauty of all was worshipping with hundreds of Christians in the 121-year old Tabernacle on the Oregon Convention grounds (see the picture).
Other highlights of our trip included:
- Hearing Jerry Hudson speak at First Christian Church, Portland and meeting World Convention supporter Dale Sawyer there.
- Lunch with Jerry, Ann, and Cam and Andrea Henderson where we talked about the church in the Northwest and about World Convention.
- The World Convention booth at the OCC, staffed and decorated by Faye Filby, long-time World Convention supporter, and by Gertrude and Merlin Shields, former missionaries to Goiania.
- Being with Jerry Rudberg, another World Convention supporter.
- Talking about the Goiania Gathering with World Convention board member Doug Dornhecker.
- Visiting the campus of Northwest Christian College and renewing friendship with its President Joe Womack.
- Hearing the marvelous lessons of Steve Moore and K.C. Richardson.
- Meeting Darren Williamson, minister of the Kaiser Church of Christ, and hearing of the plans for a new Campbell Institute.
- Experiencing the hospitality of Gary and Pat Tiffin, and of Frank and Virginia Musgrave, the President of the Convention.
God is at work in the Northwest United States!
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July 26-31, 2012
October 14, 2012
Forrest F Reed Lecture-Dr. Alvin Jackson
June 25 - 29, 2014
IDWM Quadrennial Assembly
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| ChristiaNet
July, 2012
Issue 109
Connecting Everywhere...Every Day
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WORLD CONVENTION AND GLOBAL GATHERINGS ~Gary Holloway
One difficulty we face is the confusion between the organization known as World Convention and our Global Gatherings. To many, World Convention only exists every four years when we gather together. I'm sometimes asked "When is the next World Convention?" or "What do you do the other three years?" Such questions reflect the confusion between our 24/7/365 ministry and an infrequent (but important) meeting.
I want to make a clear distinction between the organization known as World Convention and the meeting every four years known as Global Gatherings.
As far as World Convention is concerned there are clear purposes for the organization. Here is our purpose statement:
The World Convention of Churches of Christ exists in order more fully to show the essential oneness of the churches in the Lord Jesus Christ; to build up fellowship, understanding, and common purpose within the Christian-Churches of Christ-Disciples of Christ global family (including United Churches which members of the family have joined); to encourage and inspire these churches in their serving, prophetic and reconciling ministries; to provide a means of relating the global family to the whole Church of Jesus Christ; and to cooperate with Christians everywhere toward the unity of the Church upon the basis of the New Testament Scriptures.
World Convention is a ministry for Christian unity. What excites me most about this organization is not only is it the only entity working to connect all streams of the Stone-Campbell movement worldwide, but it also gives our entire movement a seat at the table with other communions globally.
CONNECTING OUR
CHURCHES WORLDWIDE
Our churches are found in 181 countries. Where in the world are we? According to the World Christian Database, here are the continents with the most adherents (members and children):
NORTH AMERICA 3,254,109
AFRICA 3,064,860
ASIA/MIDDLE EAST 490,370
LATIN
AMERICA/CARRIBEAN 367,290
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA/NZ 124,120
EUROPE 72,770
How does World Convention work to connect these churches worldwide? Through our website www.worldconvention.org, through our monthly email newsletter, ChristiaNet, through Facebook and other social media, through informative mailings each year, and by personal visits.
Global Gatherings are precisely that, regular meetings of all interested churches and individuals face-to-face for fellowship, worship, and planning for working together. These Global Gatherings, like the one currently in Brazil, encourage Christians from the host country, others who attend, and many others who are there in spirit. If your country would like to host a Global Gathering, perhaps as a joint meeting with your national meeting, please let us know!
So how do we overcome the confusion between World Convention and Global Gatherings? Two suggestions have been made. One is to be consistent in our terminology. World Convention is the everyday unity ministry. Global Gatherings are usually every four years. We ask you to always refer to those meetings as Global Gatherings, not World Conventions.
A second (and perhaps more helpful) suggestion is to change the name of our organization so we avoid the confusion. This is difficult because we have been called World Convention for 82 years. However, our board is considering this. If you have suggestions on a new name for the ministry, please send it to us.
Most importantly, we all need to realize that this is an every day ministry. We need your prayers, wisdom, and financial support every day as we all engage in the work of God to unite all believers of Jesus so that the world may believe and know his love.
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The Women's Desk
My niece and her husband are expecting twins, Apple and Banana, respectively. They are holding their naming options open for who and what gender they discover in each child as they are born. In similar ways, their parents before them kept their options flexible as did their parents before them, and their parents before them. So on it goes, each parental team passing on the dreams for their children's unprecedented future then bestowing traditions of their family and culture. That is, until we get to the heavenly parent.
God doesn't give us a moniker to be known by in our communities. But God claims each of us as his child, leaving room for us to be known as the person God calls into being. Wise, wise God must have known that a name could limit dimensions of self, and also know that we humans tend to believe in the stereotype we create around the name. The question becomes, how have we named ourselves? What do we believe about ourselves?
Let's make the circle wider. How have we named our communities, the individuals in them, the organizations we participate in? Does that naming limit how we allow ourselves to be involved, how effective the group can be? If we prefer to be loosely named, do we dilute ourselves, losing our direction and focus? How do we market the work we find ourselves called to do, find participation and support from others with similar call, yet stay flexible enough to grow into God's future?
These were the types of questions the leaders of World Christian Women's Fellowship asked of themselves as they made the decision to evolve into Global Women Connecting in 2004. World Convention continues to wrestle with finding the right descriptors to propel it's ministry of Christ's unity.
Perhaps we, the parent-like care-takers of the World Convention organization today, must cast our dreams into the naming for the future and take responsibility in its nurture and growth to become what God intends - ready for another identity appropriate for the next tomorrow. May God grant us vision and wisdom!
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Profile Resources
Your input to the Profiles section of the World Convention web site is important to continue the update of available information.A selection without a "Profile" link indicates knowledge of Restoration Movement activity, but the profile has not yet been written.
Thank you Andy Vail and Dan Yarnell for the recent updates to the United Kingdom profile. Please submit your information to office@worldconvention.org for verification and update.
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A Donation Gift
Disciples of Christ Historical Society extends gift.
We recently received multiple copies of Walter Scott, A Nineteenth-Century Evangelical edited by Mark G. Toulouse. Any donation of $25 or more to World Convention will be honored with a copy for your library until our supply runs out. |
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