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Registration 11:30 am - 8:00 pm |
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Pre-Conference Tour of the National Civil Rights Museum
Thursday, Nov 3,
10:00 am-12:30 pm
Guided tour of the Lorraine
Motel and National Civil Rights Museum,
Transportation from Idlewild provided.
Please add tour admission
to your registration fee: $10 general; $8 students and seniors
with I.D.
Plus
Post-Conference: Saturday, Nov 5,
2:00 - 4:30 pm
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Pre-Conference Gathering of Young Adults
Thursday, Nov 3,
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Seminarians, younger pastors, and other friends under (or a little
over) 40 are invited to share hopes, experiences and theological reflections
with General Assembly Moderator Rick Ufford-Chase and Covenant Network
Board members. A light lunch will be served.
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Orientation
Thursday, Nov 3,
1:00 pm-1:45 pm
For those new to Covenant Network or who have never been to a Covenant
Network conference before.
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“Turning Points” Screenings
Thursday, Nov 3,
11:45 am & 12:45 pm
Covenant Network’s award-winning video, Turning
Points: Stories of Life and Change in the Church, will be shown in the Idlewild Chapel.
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2:15 pm |
Conference Begins - Welcome and opening
remarks
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2:30 - 3:45 pm |
Plenary address - Amy Plantinga
Pauw: "Graceful Practices" |
4:00 - 5:30 pm |
Report from the Theological
Task Force on
Peace, Unity and Purity of
the Church |
5:45 - 6:30 pm |
Reflection groups |
6:45 - 7:45 pm |
Dinner - at the Church |
8:00 - 8:15 pm |
Greetings from Covenant Network leaders
and host pastor Steve Montgomery |
8:15 - 9:30 pm |
Opening Worship - Douglas Nave preaching
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9:45 - 11:30 pm |
Welcoming Reception - French Quarter Inn
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Registration 8:00 am - 11:00 am
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9:00-9:45 am |
Morning worship - Margaret Aymer preaching
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10:00 - noon |
Plenary and Keynote Address by Kathleen
Norris: "Discipleship as Mystery" |
12:15 - 1:15 pm |
Lunch
at the church in presbytery
Groups |
1:30 - 2:45 pm |
Plenary address - Eugene Rogers: "Marriage
as a Discipline of Sanctification" |
3:00 - 4:15 pm |
Workshops |
4:30 - 6:30 pm |
Greetings and remarks by
Moderator Rick Ufford-Chase
Plenary & Covenant Network
Town Hall Meeting: The state
of the church and where do
we go from here?
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6:45 - 7:45 pm |
Dinner at the church
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8:00 - 9:45 pm |
Worship and Communion, Nora Tubbs Tisdale preaching
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10:00 - 11:30 pm |
CovNet Young Adults Reception - on Beale
Street
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8:00 - 8:45 am |
Taize Worship Service
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9:00 - 10:00 am |
Plenary address - Larry Rasmussen: "The
Public Face of Discipleship" |
10:15 - 11:30 am |
Workshops |
11:45 - 1:00 pm |
Closing Worship, Tom
Long preaching |
1:00 pm |
Conference adjourns |
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This year’s workshops include conference-specific
topics like Active Peacemaking, Raising Ethical Children, Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship,
“Truth, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness,” Spiritual Practices, and Discipleship
and Congregational Renewal. There will
be wisdom from the Civil Rights movement and some only-in-the-South topics.
Workshops on Reformed Biblical interpretation and current scientific
understanding of sexuality offer resources for dialogue. We’ll
look ahead to the General Assembly with workshops on local organizing
and upcoming issues, and learn about the Cumberland Presbyterians, with
whom we’ll overlap in Birmingham. As last year, Reflection Groups provide
opportunities for small group sharing, and conversations with plenary
speakers allow further reflection.
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