“Standing at the Crossroads”
Regional Leadership Summit
Live Video Conference | January 27, 2018, 9am-4pm
Registration below | *10 Per Person
Registration Deadline has been extended to January 19, 2018!
An event for church leaders that is designed to encourage, equip and empower the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole world in Jesus’ name.
Here is a brief summary of the core passion and purpose behind this regional leadership gathering:
“Pastoral work originates, as does all Christian ministry, in the biblical sources. But for at least two generations the perspectives generated by recent behavioral sciences have dominated the literature directed to pastors. The rationale seems to be that since we are in a century of rapid change, that since so much of what we encounter is unprecedented, and that since there have been quantum leaps in knowledge and technology, anything that worked in an earlier age certainly won’t work now. But the work which has to do with the human’s relation to God and God’s will for the human does not come from knowing more about the times but from knowing humanity – and God. It has to do with continuities, not novelties; with what is essential in the human condition, not with what is accidental. Pastoral work gathers expertise not by acquiring new knowledge but by assimilating old wisdom, not by reading the latest books but by digesting the oldest ones … otherwise we float on fads; or we develop pastoral strategies in response to the fake little cycles of death and rebirth which are monitored by the seasonal rise and fall of the hemline … hastily put together out of whatever is at hand from the graduate schools, the bestseller lists, and the latest opinion poll listings of what people want. Meanwhile scripture is at hand for those who will use it, foundation stones upon which a better pastoral work can be constructed.” (Eugene Peterson, Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work)
Schedule:
9:00 – Warm Up
9:30 – Session 1: Standing at the Crossroads with our Lord (presented by David Williams, General Superintendent, EFC-MAYM)
10:30 – Coffee Break
10:45 – Session 2: Standing at the Crossroads with our Families (presented by Tony Wheeler, Founding Director, Family Ministry Institute)
12:00 – Lunch Break
1:15 – Session 3: Standing at the Crossroads with our Neighbors (presented by Carol Williams, Wife of General Superintendent, EFC-MAYM)
2:15 – Coffee Break
2:30 – Session 4: Standing at the Crossroads with our World (presented by Matt Macy, Associate Director, Evangelical Friends Mission)
3:30 – Wrap Up
Area Sites/Hosts/Facilitators:
Central Kansas: Northridge Friends Church/Manny Garcia/David Crisp
Central Oklahoma: Chandler Friends Church/Keith Reeser/Brad Wood
Northeast: Emporia First Friends Church/Jared Warner
North Central: Glen Elder Friends Church/Wanda Warner/Diana Roe
Texas: Angleton Friends Community/Karl Newmann/Robyn Burns-Marko
Tri-State: Independence Friends Church/Grady Miller/John Penrose
Western: Seward County Community College/Dennis McDowell/Diana Hoover
Cost: (payable upon arrival at area host site): $10.00 per person
Registration: (due by January 19, 2018): Contact Janet Penna at 316-267-0391 or [email protected]
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