Thursday, October 4
• Registration and Overnight Guest Check-in: 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. in the Laskey Library at the Scarritt-Bennett Center
• Dinner and Conversation at Scarritt-Bennett Center: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
• Evening Prayer and Plenary (Facilitated By Taylor Burton-Edwards): 7:00 p.m.
"Streams in the Emerging Landscape and Your Ministries:
A Conversation And Cohortation"
Missiology
Worship
Spiritual Formation
Theology
• Night Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Friday, October 5
• Breakfast at Scarritt-Bennett Center: 7:30 a.m.
• Morning Prayer: 8:30 a.m.
• Emerging Ministries: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Organic Gatherings in Greater Cincinnati: D. G. Hollums
Indigenous Mission in an Urban Arts Community: Jim Walker
Emerging in a Traditional Congregation in West Virginia: Melissa Rudolph
An Emerging Regional Young Adult Network: Carl Thomas Gladstone
• Break: 10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
• A Key Group Conversation — Women and Emerging/Emergent (Elizabeth Buxton): 10:15-11:30
• Noon Prayer and Lunch Options: 11:30 a.m.
Love Feast Hosted By D. G. Hollums
• Emerging Ministries: 1:00 p.m. -2:00 p.m.
What Jesus is Teaching Us in New York: Don and Pam Heatley
Indigenous Mission in an Urban Arts Community: Jim Walker
An Emerging Regional Young Adult Network: Carl Thomas Gladstone
Emerging in a Traditional Congregation in West Virginia: Melissa Rudolph
• Break: 2:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• A Panel Conversation: Emerging and the Institutional Church: 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
Emerging and The UM Connection: Susan Cox-Johnson
PCUSA: An IC (Formerly) Supporting a Movement: Chip Andrus
Emergingumc and GBOD: Confessions and Hopes: Taylor Burton-Edwards
• Mid-Afternoon Eucharist: 3:45 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• emerging ministries: 4:30 p.m. -5:30 p.m.
Organic Groups in Florence, KY: D. G. Hollums
What Jesus is Teaching Us in New York: Don and Pam Heatley
An Emerging Regional Young Adult Network: Carl Thomas Gladstone
Emerging in an Institutional Church: Chip Andrus
• Dinner and Evening With Your Cohorts: 5:30 p.m.
Or Bible Fight Club Hosted By Jim Walker
• Night Prayer (for those who are back): 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 6
• Breakfast at Scarritt-Bennett Center: 7:30 a.m.
• Morning Prayer: 8:30 a.m.
• Spiritual Formation Options: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Lectio Divina
Confession
Labyrinth
Healing
Intercessory Prayer
Study
• A Panel Conversation — Theology and Missiology: 10:00-11:00
An Emerging Methodist: Billy Watson
Emerging and Arminianism: Jay Vorhees
Attractionional, Extractional, and Missional/Incarnational: Taylor Burton-Edwards
• Cohort Time and Covenant Affirmation: 11:00 a.m.
• Mid-Day Prayer and Sending Forth: 11:30 a.m.
Speakers and Leaders
• D. G. Hollums is the cultural architect for th3waters, a network of organic gatherings based in Florence, Kentucky. A recent missional concern is the need to redeploy leadership to make way for more organic gatherings to start multiplying. You can learn more on his blog/website at http://www.Th3waters.Com
•Jim Walker is a United Methodist pastor on pastoral leadership team at Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One serious missional concern of this community is that it may be growing too fast. See the website at http://www.hotmetalbridge.com.
• Melissa Rudolph is the United Methodist pastor of Leetown UMC, a "traditional" UMC in rural West Virginia that is re-engaging in indigenous ministry in its community. The congregation is online at http://leetnmeth.org.
•Carl Thomas Gladstone is a United Methodist deacon, leader of an emerging young adult ministry at Birmingham First UMC (Detroit area), composer and publisher of new settings of Charles Wesley hymns, and coordinator of what's becoming a regionwide network of young adult ministries in the greater Detroit area. You can see these ministries online at http://www.emergedetroit.org and http://www.carlthomasgladstone.com.
• Elizabeth Buxton is a United Methodist pastor in Virginia, who has been the leader of the women's gathering in Emergent.
• Chip Andrus was on staff with the Office of Theology and Worship, Presbyterian Church USA, with a particular focus on nurturing emerging missional churches in the denomination. He is now pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Harrison, Arkansas.
• Don Heatley is the pastor, and Pam Heatley is the Director of Ministries of Vision Community Church in Warwick, NY. Begun in 2001 as an R&D faith community of the New York Annual Conference, Vision is continually evolving as a creative agent of God's project in the world. They can be discovered at www.visiblechurch.org and http://donheatley.typepad.com/dons_blog/.
• Susan Cox-Johnson is a United Methodist district superintendent in the Missouri Annual Conference, and an advocate and proponent for emerging missional churches in the UM connectional system. Her blog is located at http://aunitedmethodistemerging.blogspot.com/
• Billy Watson is associate pastor at St. Peter's UMC in Katy, Texas. The church website is http://www.stpeterskaty.org.
• Taylor Burton-Edwards is Director of Worship Resources for the General Board of Discipleship of The United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
