Join others across the conference for a free webinar introduction to our Imagine No Malaria campaign. Hear about and discuss this opportunity for mission and the resources available to you and your church as you engage. Get excited about how you can save lives and share this ministry. The webinar is accessible via computer or mobile device from the comfort of  your home. Webinar is Thursday, February 6, 2-3pm. Reserve your seat now here: 

  

"A meal is the orienting metaphor for the Christian tradition," says Jennifer Ayers, assistant professor of religious education and director of the Religious Education program. "Within every meal-and in the paradigmatic meal of the Eucharist-is embedded an invitation to both divine encounter and moral responsibility." 

Ayers latest book, Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology (Baylor University Press, 2013), explores issues of food justice and practices that are healing the system while deepening Christian faith along the way.   (learn more)

These emerging trends may not be prevalent in your ministry, but perhaps they are visible in your community. How will your church respond and serve proactively?   (learn more)

Performance by Sarah McLachlan

Poet and author Christina Georgiana Rossetti's deep faith is thought to be partially the result of the solace that she found in writing as a result of her poor health from age sixteen. In the first memorable stanza of In the Bleak Midwinter, Rossetti creates a dreary and desolate image of the world into which the infant Jesus appeared by drawing on the experience of a British winter. She is not suggesting that it literally snowed in Bethlehem, but is drawing on a long-established literary idea of associating snow with Christ's birth.  (learn more)

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