Conference: Bonhoeffer and Public Theology

Bonhoeffer and Public Theology Conference

The 14th Australian Bonhoeffer Conference has been scheduled for 7-8 June 2018 in Sydney, Australia.


Keynote speakers: 

• Professor Robert Vosloo, Stellenbosch University, South Africa                    Bonhoeffer, our contemporary?  Bonhoeffer on time, the times, and public life
• Professor Juliana Claassens, Stellenbosch University, South Africa                Towards a Feminist Public Theology: On Wounds, Scars and Healing in Jeremiah and Beyond
• Professor Barry Harvey, Baylor University, USA                                           A Hard Habit to Break: Re-envisioning Public Theology in a World After Christendom

Date: Thursday 7 to Friday 8 June 2018

Time: 9:00am-4:00pm on Day 1; 9:00am-3:30pm on Day 2

Venue: Mary MacKillop Place

Address: 80 William Street, North Sydney 

Fee:

$310 ( + GST)  Early Bird (save $50 off the full price, if paid by Monday 30 April);

$345 p/p (+ GST) (includes the two-day symposium, lunch, morning and afternoon tea each day. It also includes a three course networking dinner on Day 1 of the conference)

Catering: Fee includes lunch, morning and afternoon tea and a networking dinner on Day 1 of the conference.

For more information visit https://www.bbi.catholic.edu.au/short-courses/2018-Bonhoeffer-Conference 

Conference: Craft of preaching

Craft of preaching - 4th to 5th October 2016
Do you ever wonder what’s behind the scenes of some of the sermons you hear at big preaching conferences with famous preachers?  Have you always wanted a practical preaching conference where you can learn some new methods for constructing a sermon and honing your homiletical skills?
Three top teachers of preachers will preach a sermon and then tell you how they got there, with plenty of time for Q&A. 
Workshops will provide hands-on experience with practitioners dedicated to homiletical issues. 
Bring your specific examples and questions to ask. 
Foundational, collegial and encouraging, this conference is a unique opportunity to tend the craft of your preaching among peers old and new.

Speakers
Tom Long, Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Candler School of Theology
Anna Carter Florence, Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching, Columbia Theological Seminary
Karoline Lewis, Associate Professor of Biblical Preaching and The Marbury E. Anderson Chair of Biblical Preaching, Luther Seminary (pre-conference class)
Jana Childers, Dean of the Seminary and Professor of Speech-Communication and Homiletics, San Francisco Theological Seminary

For more information visit https://www.luthersem.edu/celebration/wpp.aspx

Conference: Return to Wittenberg

Return to Wittenberg Conference
26-29 July 2016
Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee

About the conference
What is the point of going to Church? Can’t I praise and thank God from anywhere – like in the comfort of my own home? I already believe in God. I’m basically a good person. Isn’t that enough?
R2W’s first annual conference will deal with these and other questions that Christian millennials struggle with by addressing the all-encompassing question posed by the Small Catechism: “What Does This Mean?”
We believe the answer to this question can be found in the Catechism’s Six Chief Parts – 1) the Ten Commandments, 2) the Creed, 3) the Lord’s Prayer, 4) Holy Baptism, 5) Confession, and 6) Holy Communion – which are the essence of the entire Christian faith. Our conference will use the Parts as an outline, around which all our worship, discussions, and presentations will be based.
Through the Six Chief Parts, we will discover that the meaning of all true Christian life and worship is found in Christ Jesus, the Incarnate God, and what He offers us through His Holy Spirit in the blessed Means of Grace.

Keynote presentations
The Catechism is Everything
The Catechism as Guide to Preaching and Hearing
The Catechism as Guide to Christian Prayer
The Catechism as Guide to the Sacramental Life
The Catechism as Beichtspiegel--Guide to Private Confession
Panel Discussion with Presenters

For more information:  visit here

Workshop/Discussion: Rethinking Sunday morning

Rethinking Sunday Morning: Better Questions, Bolder Experiments

For many, it's already happening. Whether Sunday morning finds them seated at work or at a coffee shop, in the bleachers or on a pew, they're already rethinking churchgoing. And perhaps you are, too.

But what is God up to in all of this? And to what more faithful future are Christian communities now being called? What are the practices of discipleship for a post-churchgoing world?

Join the conversation and discover the courage to ask some fresh questions and engage them more boldly.

For more information visit here

Conference: Thriving in change

Thriving in Change Conference

19^th – 20^th August: Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 745 Rochedale Rd, Rochedale, Brisbane, Qld.

26^th – 27^th August: Immanuel Lutheran Church, 32 Morphett Rd, Novar Gardens South Australia.

Session Leaders

Steen Olsen:       WE DWELL IN THE WORD

Brett Kennett:     WE DWELL IN THE WORD

Patrick Keifert:   THE CONGREGATION IN A NEW MISSIONAL ERA

                             SIX DISRUPTIVE MISSIONAL HABITS 

                             CORPORATE SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT 

                             THRIVING IN CHANGE

Dean Eaton:        MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP

   

Patrick Keifert is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Professor and Olin S. and Amanda Fjelstad Reigstad Chair of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary St Paul, Minnesota, USA (where missiology is part of the systematics department rather than the pastoral theology department). He is also President and Director of Research of Church Innovations Institute, a church-related not-for-profit group, seeking to "innovate your church's capacities to be missional."

Dean Eaton is the LCA Board for Local Mission’s Church Planting Mentor and Mission Facilitator.

Steen Olsen is the LCA SA/NT District Director for Mission and a member of BLMiss.

Brett Kennett is the LCA Vic/Tas District Pastor for Congregational Support and a member of BLMiss.

For more information contact:

Dean Eaton

Conference: Lutheran Renewal

Lutheran Renewal Conference featuring

Roland Baker, Barry Manuel, Edgar Mayer and Andrew White (Vicar of Baghdad)

28 - 30 October 2016

Cornerstone Lutheran College

68 Adelaide Road, Mount Barker,  South Australia. 

Free Conference

For more information visit

http://lutheranrenewal.org.au/

Best Practices for Ministry Sessions - audio

Best Practices for Ministry is an annual free conference.  The following sessions from one of their recent conferences are available at http://www.cclphoenix.org/bpm.html     :

#facilitatelearning (Joe Willman)

101 Ways to Share the Mercy and Compassion of Christ that Do Not Cost Money (Jim Hetzner)

7 Days of Prayer: A Week of Blessings (Bill Dasch)

Accountability in Ministry (Tom Kithley)

A New Song of Joy (Tim Runtsch)

An Exciting Way to Reach Youth and Families in Your Community... (Sanya Parson)

Asset Based Community Development (Daniel Czaplewski)

Avoiding the 12 Deadly Sins of Church Boards (Bob Brown)

Biblical Personal Financial Stewardship-Growing as a Disciple through Stewarding God's Gifts (Joel Eggerding)

Building a Continuum from First Fruits to Whole Life Gifting (Phil Mienzen)

Building a Staff for Free! (Karen Reincke)

Cancer and the Church (Karen Tripp)

Care and Feeding of a Professional Church Worker (Patti Brunold and Rex Dawson)

Church and School Partnership (Chuck Mueller)

Church Minister's Spouses; My Children (Sara Borgstede)

Church Technology on a Budget-Online Presence (Joe Leahy)

Church Technology on a Budget-Protecting Your Parish in a Digital World (Joe Leahy)

Clear and Simple Discipleship (Greg Finke)

Communicate and Motivate Your Ministry into Legacy Gifts and Endowments (Allan Buss)

Confessing Christ and Living His Mission in the Early Chuch Today (Ben Haupt)

Creating a Connection Culture (Jason Panku)

Discipline its More than Fair Firm and Consistant (Bob Polansky)

Domestic Violence and Abuse is Everyone's Concern (Kim Schave/ Bernie Tonjes)

Do We Really Need to Amend our Bylaws (Bob Brown)

Does Your Family Think You're Healthy and Balanced (Bruce and Ann Fredrickson)

Effective Community Outreach through Volunteer Led Ministries (Karen Tripp)

Encourage, Uplift and Support (Greg Griffith)

Engaging Your Church with Lutheran Ministry in Haiti (Mike Bell)

Enhance your Band with Backing Tracks (TJ Winters)

Environmental Projection Telling a Visual Story in Worship (James Lavender)

From Burnout to Balance... (Davy Tydurski)

Funding New Innovative Ministries with WeRaise-Seven Keys to Successful Crowdfunding (Brian Becker and Abgail Miller)

Fundraising with Special Events Dinner Auctions, Golf Outings, Trivia Nights and More (Bob Polansky)

Growing Mission from the Inside Out (Craig Mccourt)

Having Fun, While Breaking Down the Walls of Your Silo (Lani Walter)

Health Care and Stewardship Come Full Circle (Steve Gruenwald)

How Can My Congregation Make an Impact in Foreign Missions? (Jeff Ehlers)

How Congregations Can Engage in their Health (Karen Sue Murdy)

How to Assess, Empower and Multiply Missional Leaders (David Kim)

How to Share Christ with Friends of Another Faith (David Kim)

I Am Not Normal (Steve and Erin Kline)

Improving Board Effectiveness (Jim Galvin)

Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith (Steve Cohen)

Joining Jesus on His Mission (Greg Finke)

Keys to Great Teamwork (Greg Sryles/ Steve Wagner)

LCMS Foundation and Friends - Congregations Building Planned Giving Endowment Initiatives (Phil Mienzen)

Leadership Lessons from Joseph's Journey (Karen Lippert)

Leadership Natural or Earned (Tom Keithley)

Leading Change in a Congregation (Vic Hippie)

Leading from the Second Chair (Brian Becker)

Legal Update (Bob Brown)

Licensed Lay Deacons - a Responsible Model for Releasing them into WS Ministry (Paul Mueller)

Living as a Sheep Among Wolves; Life Lessons from Death Row (Tim Carter)

Meaningful Meetings (Ron Burcham)

Ministry as a Responsible Recipient of Major Gifts (Allen Helms/ Ralph Simon)

Missions Policies or Favorite Son (Steve Cohen)

More than an Online Bulletin Board; Creating an Engaging Church Website (Peter Frank)

Murphy's 5 Laws of Planning a Disastrous Mission Trip (Bob Brown)

Next Level Preaching and Presenting (John Stennfeld)

Not your Grandma's Confirmation (Nicole Carmines/ Ben Schrank)

Nurturing Your Spiritual Life (Tim Saleska)

Online Community Engagement (Matt Trotter)

Open Your Church's Doors to the Community (Terry Tieman)

Packaging and Parables (Jeff Scheich)

Personal Growth Key Ingredients for a Master Plan (Tom Keithley)

Practical Steps for Revitalizing Congregations (Mark Wood)

Preparing Church Leaders for the 21st Century Mission in America (Kou Seying)

Protect this House; Why the Church Work Marriage and Family Matters to Our Ministries (Heidi Goehmann)

Proving God Without the Bible (Bob Wetesnik)

Public Policy and the Church (Fred Hinz)

Put Your Mask on First; Healthy Leaders Multipling Healthy Leaders (John Hanson and Rhonda Mohr)

Reaching Your Audience; Social Media, Email Marketing, and Search Engines (Sarah Tanner)

Reading Scripture Aloud-Like God Meant It! (Marcia Luecke)

Release Your Best Life After Divorce (Gwynne Gonnerman)

Relevant. The Church as it Relates to Millenials (Thomas Couser)

Remembering Hope (Max Phillips)

Responding to Sexual Temptation in a High Tech Society (Ted Kober)

Reviving the Lutheran Church in the Urban Setting (Jason Pankau)

Senior Pastor Leadership (Jeff Schrank and Bill Tucker)

Shaping Your Inner World to Revitalize Your Outer World (Roger Theimer)

Simple Tips to Make a Great Video (Mike Edge)

Small Congregation/ Big Decisions (Paul Nelson)

StartNew (Nate Schaus and Bill Woolsey)

Stop Hiding from God in One Another (Jason Pankau)

Strategies of the Missionary Pastor and Missionary Congregation (Mark Siegert)

"Take it Home" Evangelism Ideas (Scott Malme)

Teaching Families to Confess and Forgive (Ted Kobert)

Tending Trends and Our Youth (Terry Dittmer)

The Catechism in Relationship Language (Paul Schultz)

The Changing Healthcare Landscape-Implications for Ministries and Workers (Jim Sanft)

The Language of Leadership: #beyondSELFIE (Leon and Gretchen Jameson)

The Lost Art of Story Telling (Craig Mccourt)

The Road to a Stress Free Sunday Morning (Greg Styles)

The Urgency of Church Planting (Peter Meier)

The Urgency of Seeking the Lost (David Kim)

There's Not Enough Time! Increasing Church Office Efficiency with Church360 Members (Peter Frank)

Training the Missionary Pastor for the US Mission Field (Glenn Fluegge)

Transformational Leadership (Mark Jeske)

Transhumanism and the Body (Joel Oesch)

Understanding User Experience and Your Ministry (Sara Tanner)

Unity in Marriage (Jason Pankau)

Unleashing your Congregations Generous Urge (Tim Schwan/ Steve Wagner)

Using Media in Worship (Phil Grimpo)

Using Video in Ministry (Joy Hamann/ TJ Winters)

VBS Easter Egg Hunts from Start to Finish (Nicole Carmines)

When Boomers Need Booming (Tyler Walworth)

Worship Art Leadership from 30,000 ft (Brendan Knorp)

You Can't Share Jesus Until You Know Who You Are In Him (Steve De Santo)

Your Sabbatical; Here's $500+A Free Coach to Make it Happen (Abigail Miller)

Conference: The Great Commission Summitt

The Great Commission Summit exists to teach, equip and connect pastors and church leaders to be effective ministers of the Gospel amid the changing dynamic of global Christianity.

"To Christianize cannot be the same as to Westernize."  - Vitalino Simalox

Concordia University Irvine, guided by the Great Commission of Christ Jesus and the Lutheran Confessions, empowers students through the liberal arts and professional studies for lives of learning, service and leadership.

Dates June 9-10, 2016

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.  (2 Corinthians 5:18)
Paul tells us that God did two things to him.
First, God reconciled Paul to Himself through Christ,
and second, He gave Paul the ministry of reconciliation. What an incredible statement. We are reconciled to be reconcilers.

In our communities opportunities abound for reconciliation.
Person to person.
Church to community.
Church to church.
There are needs for reconciliation between races and classes.
Great Commission Summit 16 will focus on the two calls to reconciliation -
how those calls are being answered in the Global South -
and what God would have us do in our local callings.

Featured Presenter
Femi B. Adeleye has been involved in student ministry with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) for more than thirty years. He is now IFES Associate General Secretary for Partnership & Collaboration, working to nurture nationally led Christian student witness that will produce a new generation of leaders for the church and nations of Africa and beyond. Born in Nigeria, he is currently based in Ghana.

For more information and to view the presentations of the Great Commission Summit in 2014 visit http://www.cui.edu/church-relations/great-commission-summit#.VSwce27tJ6k.facebook

Higher things Winter Conference: We Confess - Small Catechism

The Higher things we confess conference (they like to call it an unconference)
We confess focussed on the Small Catechism.
7 Lutheran speakers. 18 min each on a part of the Small Catechism.   Like TED speakers but only better they are Lutheran speakers....

The Ten Commandments - Rev. Mark Buetow

The Creed - Rev. Dr. Steven Mueller

Holy Baptism - Rev. George Borghardt

The Lord’s Prayer -Rev. David Kind

Holy Absolution - Pastor Chris Rosebrough

The Lord’s Supper - Rev. Donavon Riley
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Daily Prayer and The Table of Duties - Rev. William Cwirla

Livestreaming available at:  http://higherthings.org/we-confess-2016

Conference booklet available at:  http://cdn.higherthings.org.s3.amazonaws.com/imgs/uploads/2016-we-confess.pdf

Conference: LIfe@Work Conference

Life@Work Conference
Thu Oct 29th, 10am-4pm
Our society is post-Christian and secular - what does it look like for Christians to live out their faith in this context, to be salt & light in the workplace, and to share their faith with their colleagues?
Coinciding with "Witness: Word & Deed", our third annual Life@Work conference, this year we are excited to introduce for the first time a special day for pastors. Join us Thursday October 29 as we consider the pressing need to pastor those in our churches for their public life in the workplace.
Don't miss this special day, co-hosted by Melbourne City Bible Forum & Ridley Marketplace Institute.
Ormond Anglican Church vicar Kevin Pedersen is looking forward to the day:
"This conference presents me with an opportunity to review work we've already done in integrating peoples' work with their faith.  It will help remind me of the tensions my people experience every day as Christians working in a secular environment".

Make sure you're there too.
When: Thursday October 29, 10am-4pm
Where: Metropolitan Hotel (263 William Street, Melbourne Victoria Australia)
Cost: $70 (includes full lunch, morning & afternoon tea)

For an extra $30, join us with members of your churches at the Wednesday or Thursday night session of our Life@Work conference, "Witness: Word & Deed".

In partnership with:

Conference program
10:00am  Conference welcome
10:05-10:30am  On the coalface: A Biblical sketch of work
(Robert Martin, Melbourne City Bible Forum, director)
10:30-11:15am What Christians in the workplace want to know...and need to know
(Andrew Laird, Melbourne City Bible Forum)
11:45-12:15pm  The Pastor goes to work (including "The pastor's perspective", featuring three local pastors)   (Kara Martin, Ridley Marketplace Institute)
12:15-1:30pm  Evangelism in post-Christian Australia today
(Sam Chan, City Bible Forum national communicator)
2:30-3:15pm  Panel: Charting the way forward
Featuring Melbourne church and para-church leaders
3:15-3:45pm  Suggested resources
(Kara Martin, Ridley Marketplace Institute)
4:00pm Conference close

Registrations available at http://citybibleforum.org/city/melbourne/event/lifework-pastors-conference

Conference Recordings: Speak Lord Your servant is listening

Speak Lord Your servant is listening conference took place in Tanunda in May 2105
The main foundational theme of the conference was 'Why should we trust the Bible, and how should we interpret it?'

Speakers were Rev Dr A. Hensley, Rev Dr M. Lockwood, Rev G. Baikovs, Rev D. Kohrt

Presentation Topics were:

• The origins of Scripture and the Formation of the Canon I & II
• Luther’s principles of Biblical Interpretation
• Luther and the idolatry of human wisdom
• Methods of Biblical Interpretation in Modern Times I & II

Each of the presentations can be downloaded at http://pastorsblog.com.au/2015/06/03/speak-lord-tanunda-2015-listen-read-share/

Conference: Luther 500 festival

Luther 500 conference is an international conference will explore, positively and critically, the reception of Martin Luther’s theology today and its significance for Christianity in the future. The exploration of Luther’s theology will be three-dimensional: ecumenical, global and future-focused.

Five international Luther scholars, as well as several ALC and other Australian Luther scholars, will present papers based on original research and thought.

Presenters to date include:

• Dr Franz Posset, - OUR Martin: Catholic sympathisers yesterday, today and tomorrow.
• Professor Kirsi Stjerna - Luther for the future.
• Professor James Nestingen - the contemporary significance of Luther’s teaching on the ‘communicatio idiomatum’.  
• Professor Risto Saarinen -Luther’s theology of giving and the gift.
• Professor Theodor Dieter - Martin Luther’s ninety five theses: reconstructing a ‘debate which did not take place’.

More presenters are to be added to the program.

Luther 500 conference is being co-ordinated by ALITE (Australian Lutheran Institute for theology and ethics), Australian Lutheran College and University of Divinity Melbourne

Dates:  28th June to 3rd July 2016

Location:  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

For more information and to register visit  http://www.luther500.com.au/

The conference is open to everyone!!

Lutheran Renewal Australia Conference

Lutheran Renewal Australia is hosting a conference on November 20-22 2015 in Toowoomba
Speakers will be Rev Clark Taylor and Rev Dr Edgar Mayer.

Conference is free

Conference: Keeping it real living the Jesus life in a secular world

Too often the gospel becomes abstract doctrines we’re supposed to believe instead of the living Lord Jesus himself, present in his Word. When that happens, then the Christian life becomes unreal as well. We’re left alone with the law as an ideal that we have to make real by our works. Christianity becomes mere talk that has no connection with reality at all.

This conference takes us back to the gospel of the Real Presence of the incarnate Jesus in Word and Sacrament, to give us his life to be our life. When we die with Christ by faith, we find ourselves in this world as it really is, fallen but his, preserved by him for redemption in Christ. Jesus gives us a real life to live in this world as the Body of Christ, to give ourselves away in love to our neighbors in our vocations and to bear witness to the world at large that it still is God’s world.

Presenters include Dr. Jonathan Sorum speaking on “Following Jesus: Bonhoeffer’s Recovery of the Reality of the Christian Life,” Dr. Robert Benne on “The Church’s Public Witness,” and Pastor Jaynan Egland as the Banquet Speaker for Saturday evening. Information on other speakers will be forthcoming.

Our event will take place immediately before the LCMC Annual Gathering in Dallas on October 4 – 7 and in the same hotel and conference center (Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center). We invite you to join us for this important conference. Keep watching our website for more information.

Place: Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center
7600 John Q Hammons Dr.
Frisco, TX 75034
Date: Oct. 3 - 4
Time: Saturday: 1 – 8 p.m.
Sunday: 2 – 4:30 p.m.

Click here to register online: https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d2/default.aspx?wid=108917

Conference: Unearthing Gospel Gold - Crossings

Come, be strengthened in your ability to relate Scripture to life in a way that is relevant and joyful, using the Crossings Method. Beginners will have an opportunity to learn how to use this method, sometimes called the “Six-Step Method.” This is the method which is used in text studies which are e-published weekly by Crossings, available online at www.crossings.org.

We will explore together the implications of using a self-consciously law-gospel method for relating the Word of God to culture and life. Speakers, all of them members of the Crossings Community, will discuss how the Crossings Method has helped them. Pastors will talk about how they use it in their preaching, and lay people will tell what it means for them.

Conference sessions include:

• Worship
• “Unearthing Gospel Gold”
• Using the Crossings Six-step method to reach a thorough hearing of a scriptural text 
• Crossing Contemporary Culture
• Cartoons 
• Using the Six-Step Method for Preaching
• “How I Learned to Trust the Crossings Method”

Date:  25 to 27 January 2015

The conference fee of $200 includes tuition, meals, and housing. Tuition is free for all seminary students and first-call pastors. 50% off for first-time attendees!

For more details visit the Conference Page

LIBERATE

LIBERATE is a new group of people committed to the message as defined by Jesus’ mission: “I have come to set the captives free” (Luke 4:18).
Through the demand of his law, God confronts and condemns people in their bondage and sin; through the declaration of his gospel, God comforts and forgives people with the liberating love of Jesus Christ. We want sufferers to hear these “two words” (law and gospel) so they can believe the promise that frees us from our past of guilt and shame; frees us from the present bondage of bitterness, insecurity, self-reliance, and fear; and frees us for the joy of worshiping God and serving our neighbor.
Our mission is to announce (and then announce again and again) this liberating word to a wounded and worn out world, hoping that the burdened and burnt out, the Christian and the non-Christian, will hear and rest in the freedom that Jesus came, died, and lives to give.

It was founded by Tullian Tchividjian, pastor of  is the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, a Lecturer of Pastoral Theology at Knox Theological Seminary, a contributing editor to Leadership Journal, and the grandson of Evangelist Billy Graham.  

They host an annual conference and offer resources including:
Church Directory
Pastor's Network
Suggested reading list
Ministry resources
Music

For more information go to www.liberate.org 

Festival of Homiletics

2014 Festival of Homiletics is being hosted by Central Lutheran Church and Westminster Presbyteran Church in Minneapolis May 19th to 23rd 2014

Presenters include:
Anthony Bailey:  Minister of Worship, Parkdale United Church, Ottawa, Canada
Craig Barnes:  President and Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary
John Bell:  Liturgical Composer and Church Musician
Tangled Blue:  Folk-rock Traveling Music Duo
Barbara Brown Taylor:  Professor of Religion, Piedmont College
Walter Brueggemann:  Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary
Anna Carter Florence:  Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching, Columbia Theological Seminary
David Cherwien:  Artistic Director - The National Lutheran Choir, 2013-14 Season
 Cindy Senarighi:  YogadevotionYoga, healing prayer and chair massage
Michael Curry:  Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
Lillian Daniel: Senior Minister, First Congregational Church, Glen Ellyn, IL.
Angela Dienhart Hancock: Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Eric Elnes:  Senior Minister, Countryside Community Church (UCC), Omaha, NE, and Host of Darkwood Brew
The Hurst Family:  Music Ministry in the Kingdom of God
The Fleshpots of Egypt:  Bluegrass Music Group
Yvette Flunder:  Founder and Lead Pastor of City of Refuge UCC Church; San Francisco, CA
Tonia Hughes:  National Recording Artist and Worship Leader
Grace Imathiu:  Minister, United Methodist Church
Rolf Jacobson:  Associate Professor of Old Testament; Luther Seminary
Kevin Kling:  Author, Playwright, Storyteller, and American commentator for National Public Radio
Karoline Lewis:  Alvin N. Rogness Associate Professor of Homiletics, Luther Seminary
David Lose:  The Marbury E. Anderson Chair in Biblical Preaching, Luther Seminary
National Lutheran Choir:  The National Lutheran Choir, under the direction of Dr. David Cherwien
Chuck Marohnic:  Jazz Pianist, Musician, Educator, Author, Composer and Arranger.
MaryAnn McKibben Dana:  Pastor, Idylwood Presbyterian Church & Co-Chair of NEXT Church
Brian McLaren:  Author, speaker and activist
Otis Moss III:  Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago
Susan Palo Cherwien:  Freelance Writer and Musician
Luke Powery:  Dean of Duke University Chapel & Associate Professor of the Practice of Homiletics at the Divinity School
Sara Renner:  Director of Contemporary Worship at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, MN
Robert Robinson:  Recording Artist
Carol Rogers:  Award-winning Jazz Vocalist & Vocal Coach
Peter Rollins:  Writer, Lecturer, Storyteller and Public Speaker
David Schmalenberger:  Assistant Head of the Percussion Department at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota
Mark Sedio:  Director of Music at Central Lutheran Church
Mike Slaughter:  Lead Pastor, Ginghamsburg UMC; Ohio
Billy Steele:  Grammy Award Winning, World-Renowned Singer & Songwriter
Darnell Davis & the Remnants:  Songwriter & Producer, Gospel Ensemble
Jamar Esaw and TRIAD: 4CHRIST:  Gospel Artist and his 30+ member Gospel Choir
Will Willimon:  Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry
Lauren Winner:  Assistant Professor of Christian Spirituality, Duke Divinity School; Priest Associate at St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Author
Heatherlyn:   Yogadevotions, Singer & Songwriter

For more information visit Festival of Homiletics 

Resurgence R13 Conference - online free

The focus of the conference was Will Christianity have a funeral or a future?  with many of the speakers exploring what it means to be church in a post Christendom world!!!The 

Resurgence R13 recently took place in November 2013.  You can now view the entire conference or part of the conference free of charge

Speakers include:
Mark Driscoll
Greg Laurie
Matt Chandler
Judah Smith
Crawford Loritts
Dave Brushes
Rick Warren
James MacDonald
Mark Burnett and Roma Downey
Sutton Turner

Visit the Resurgence R13 Conference Page 

Five Two and the 2013 Five Two Wiki conference

FiveTwo is a “how to” network equipping sacramental church leaders to more effectively reach God’s lost people.

2013 Wiki 5 2 conference is September 24th to 26th in Katy Texas
WIKICONFERENCE is the annual gathering for the FiveTwo Network. You’ve probably heard the term “wiki” before… wikipedia, wiki leaks, etc. A “wiki” is a website that allows collaborated editing of it’s content and structure by it’s users. In our case, it’s a conference that is coordinated and presented through collaboration between organizations and ministry experts in various ministry fields. These people are on the front lines and in the trenches. They are passionate about reaching God’s lost in their communities and they are practicing what they are preaching. WIKICONFERENCE is for any church leader–staff or volunteer–who wants personal, practical ways to better reach the lost in their community.

Key note Speakers
Michael Frost 
Bob Goff
Felicia Helmick
John Jantsch
Soong-Chan Rah
Bill Woolsey
plus another 27 speakers covering 8 tracks

Tracks 
Church Planting 
Leadership and Coaching
Missional Communities
Multi Ethnic
Next Generational Ministry
Multi Site
Organisational Development
Worship Parts

For more information and to register visit here

Conference: Australian Conference on Lutheran Education

Australian College on Lutheran Education 

Wise Up! - Transforming Mind, Body and Heart in Lutheran Education

30th September to 2nd October 2013

Brisbane

Approximately every four years Lutheran Education Australia and the respective regions organise a major conference to celebrate Lutheran Education in Australia.  This conference is named ACLE, Australian Conference on Lutheran Education.  The 2013 conference will be held in Brisbane on the 30th September to 2nd October 2013.  The ACLE4 conference theme is Wise Up!  Transforming Mind, Body and Heart in Lutheran Education.

The theme takes up the work of the Lutheran church and its schools in providing the wisdom of God for the development of the whole of life for young people.  Education in a Lutheran school is a transformational activity that engages all aspects of the human experience.  The getting of this wisdom requires forward thinking, to address how the traditions passed onto us may be reformed into new ways of engaging learners.

During the conference there will be presentations and opprtunities to collaborate with expert contemporary thinkers as well as participate in numerous fellowship activities with like-minded professionals across Lutheran Schools in Australia and other countries.  Most of the conference will be held in the state-of-the-art Brisbane Convention Centre in one of Australia's beautiful cities, Brisbane.

Speakers
BISHOP MUNIB YOUNAN
Bishop Munib Younan is a co-founder of the Council of Religious Institutions in the Holy Land.
  
ALAN NOVEMBER
(Live Online Video Presentation & Event) Alan November is an international leader in education technology.
  
DR. THOMAS NIELSEN
A member of the National Values Education Project Advisory Committee, Dr Nielsen has served in several of the Australian Government values education projects. 
  
REV JOHN HENDERSON
Rev John Henderson was installed as Principal of Australian Lutheran College in February 2009. Prior to this, John was the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in Australia from January 2002 until December 2008. 
  
EWAN MCINTOSH
Ewan McIntosh is a teacher, speaker and investor, regarded as one of Europe’s foremost experts in digital media for public services. 
  
KARI SUTTON
Kari Sutton is a Licensee for The Happiness Institute based in Queensland. Kari is an experienced facilitator in positive psychology, wellbeing, communication and teamwork 
  
PAUL HOLLAND

Paul Holland is Managing Director and Principal Consultant of Creativity Well, a new company established to provide services to the creative industries, particularly in the areas of management and business development.

For more information and to register visit http://acle.net.au/