Tracks

 

 

 

Download a PDF OF  WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS  here.

 

Please note: 

When registering, you may choose one affinity group, one workshop from the "A" "B" and "C" time slots, and one sponsored workshop luncheon.

Workshop Session A  /  FRIDAY 10:15-11:45 AM

Workshop Session C  /  SATURDAY 8:15-10:45 AM

 

Track 1: Transforming Spiritual Growth

A1    How do you foster spiritual growth and how do you know it's working?
       Dr. Bill Sachs The Rev. Ann Hallisey, Dr. Bill Craddock, The Rev. Britt Olson, The Rev. Clarence Langdon    

C1    Getting out of the Pew: Elements of Spiritual Growth and Transformation for Church Goers
        For Lay People Only
       Dr. Charles Kiblinger 

Track 2: Reconciliation and Justice

A2    Making Reconciliation Real
         The Very Rev. Dr. Walter Brownridge

C2    Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
         The Rev. Dr. Sam Wells

Track 3: The Year of Living Dangerously: Putting Faith Into Action

A3    Learning from God's Dangerous People
       The Rev. Canon Dr. Chuck Robertson  

C3    Exploring Moral Imagination in Literature and Culture
        Dr. Gregg Garrett 

Track 4: Civil War, Civil Rights, Civil Society: Resources for Moral Imagination

A4    Civil War, Civil Rights, Civil Society
         The Rev. Dr. Harold Lewis 

C4    Where do we Go From Here?
       Mr. John Harris   

Track 5: Leadership that Matters: Cultivating Vibrant Institutions

This entire track is intended to be an in-depth leadership experience for 2 or more members from the same congregation to attend.  Please sign up for A5, B5 and C5 as a unit.  We also suggest The Smart Network on Leadership by Katherine Tyler Scott as an appropriate companion to these sessions.  These three sessions are presented by Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School through funding from a Lilly grant.

The presenters are:
      Jason Byassee 
      Nathan Kirkpatrick 
A5    A Sense of the Whole: The Landscape for Christian Institutions
B5    The Institutional Imagination: What Might Yet Be
C5   The Character and Courage Needed: Leading into God’s Future 

Track 6: Building Spaces for Courageous Communities

A6     Supporting Physical Endowments: Strategies that Work
         The Rev. John Ander Runkle 

C6    The New Urbanism: A Brief Primer for Church Leaders
        The Rev. Dr. Jason Fout

Track 7:  Capital Campaigns & Planned Giving

A7     Empowering Your Parish's Future Mission with Planned Giving
         Mr. James Murphy 

C7    20 things we learned in the quiet phase of cap campaign
         The Very Rev. Dr. Ian Markham  
         The Rev. Dr. J. Barney Hawkins 

Track 8: Talking About Stewardship

A8    The Sermon on the Amount: Preaching for Stewardship
        The Rev. Micah Jackson 

C8   The Soul of Money - Your Relationship with Money and what it Means
         The Rev. Elizabeth Butler Jameson 

Track 9: Core Competencies (Emphasis on first time attendees)

A9    Enabling Generosity and Simplifying Stewardship: Key Elements for Stewardship in the Endowed Parish
       Pamela Wesley Gomez 

C9     Endowment 101: Seven Steps to a Successful Endowment
        Ernest Q. Petrey 

Track 10: Church Communications

A10  The Stewardship of your Technology
       Rebecca Wilson 

C10   Courageous Communications
        Jim Naughton